Shahzia Sikander, “NOW” (2023 ... One admirer in particular, a Tribeca-based early childhood educator named Sarah Sultan, admitted to me that she wasn’t that taken by the sculpture at ...

Shahzia Sikander talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Sikander ...

Shahzia Sikander, "Pleasure Pillars" (2001), vegetable color, dry pigment, and watercolor on tea-stained wasli paper. Collection of Amita and Purnendu Chatterjee (© 2021 Shahzia Sikander.

A controversial statue by Pakistani-American sculptor Shahzia Sikander — one of a handful of public pieces by the celebrated artist — has been beheaded at the University of Houston.

After a Shahzia Sikander sculpture was beheaded in Houston, Texas, the artist said this week she would not repair it, explaining that the work in its current form speaks to what she called "the ...

Shahzia Sikander is a visual artist based in New York. At 3 a.m. on July 8, a man with a hammer decapitated an 18-foot sculpture of a woman at the University of Houston. I made this sculpture ...

By the time the artist Shahzia Sikander arrived at the N.C.A., in 1987, manuscript painting was seen as kitsch. But, on campus, Sikander was introduced to Bashir Ahmed, one of the few artists ...

When Shahzia Sikander served on the New York Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments and Markers in 2017, the Pakistani American artist became more highly attuned to the lack of female ...