{"id":3365,"date":"2016-10-10T05:02:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T05:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2016-10-10T05:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T05:02:44","slug":"once-upon-a-time-art-exhibitions-were-headlines-today-no-newspaper-even-bothers-to-report-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"ONCE UPON A TIME ART EXHIBITIONS WERE HEADLINES &#8211; TODAY NO NEWSPAPER EVEN BOTHERS TO REPORT THEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONCE UPON A TIME ART EXHIBITIONS WERE HEADLINES<\/p>\n<p>TODAY NO NEWSPAPER EVEN BOTHERS TO REPORT THEM<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3367\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DAILY-IMROZE-LAHORE-12TH-DECEMBER-1949.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3367\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DAILY-IMROZE-LAHORE-12TH-DECEMBER-1949-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"daily-imroze-lahore-12th-december-1949\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DAILY-IMROZE-LAHORE-12TH-DECEMBER-1949-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DAILY-IMROZE-LAHORE-12TH-DECEMBER-1949-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DAILY-IMROZE-LAHORE-12TH-DECEMBER-1949.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">daily-imroze-lahore-12th-december-1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\">NEWS REPORTERS EARNING MONEY TO BRING DOWN PAKISTAN<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3368\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Governor-General-and-MARC-1949-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3368\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Governor-General-and-MARC-1949-2-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"governor-general-and-marc-1949\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Governor-General-and-MARC-1949-2-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Governor-General-and-MARC-1949-2-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Governor-General-and-MARC-1949-2-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Governor-General-and-MARC-1949-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">governor-general-and-marc-1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\">Every show of M.A. Rahman Chughtai in his life time was inaugurated at leading places by the serving Head of State. All newspapers reported those events as big happenings. Our archives are full of them. We hare a headline from Daily Imroze, the leading Urdu newspaper of its time. Culturally oriented to the extreme. And compare the narrow minded reporting that happens today. Newspapers hired their best persons to write on Art, today no best persons are even around. The tenacity of Pakistan Art to hang here without support is familiar to Pakistan itself, which has the resilience to survive the 4th and 5th generation wars launched by enemy lobbies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3369\" style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Inauguration-Alhamra-1949-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3369\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Inauguration-Alhamra-1949-1-136x300.jpg\" alt=\"inauguration-alhamra-1949\" width=\"136\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Inauguration-Alhamra-1949-1-136x300.jpg 136w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Inauguration-Alhamra-1949-1.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">inauguration-alhamra-1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3366\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alhamra-Inauguration-day-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3366\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alhamra-Inauguration-day-2-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"alhamra-inauguration-day\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alhamra-Inauguration-day-2-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alhamra-Inauguration-day-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">alhamra-inauguration-day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONCE UPON A TIME ART EXHIBITIONS WERE HEADLINES TODAY NO NEWSPAPER EVEN BOTHERS TO REPORT THEM NEWS REPORTERS EARNING MONEY TO BRING DOWN PAKISTAN Every show of M.A. Rahman Chughtai in his life time was inaugurated at leading places by the serving Head of State. All newspapers reported those events as big happenings. Our archives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=3365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ONCE UPON A TIME ART EXHIBITIONS WERE HEADLINES &#8211; TODAY NO NEWSPAPER EVEN BOTHERS TO REPORT THEM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}