A Pakistani Artist’s Blood Red Display at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | INDIA 
By Shanoor Seervai

NEW YORK---On a rainy day, the splatters of red paint on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have a glossy sheen, appearing like pools of blood fresh from battle. Imran Qureshi’s painting, covering the museum’s 8,000-square-foot roof, is a response to violence across the globe in recent decades. Every year since 1998, the Met has exhibited work by a contemporary artist on its Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Mr. Qureshi is the first South Asian artist to have work featured here. “The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi“ represents the age-old tension between hope and despair; the capacity for beauty to emerge from suffering. [link]