LAHORE, Jan 17: After almost 40 years, a solo exhibition will be held at the Contemporary Art Gallery of Lahore Museum on Monday (tomorrow).

Artist Dr Ejaz Anwar, whose 42 recent works in watercolours will be put on display, told Dawn that group exhibitions had been held at the gallery in 70s but it was for the very first time that some individual was allowed to hold a show at the gallery. “It’s a great honour for me,” Dr Anwar said.

Dr Anwar, whose last exhibition was held in 2007 at the Government College University, told this correspondent that the show was a traveling one and it would be moved to National Art Gallery, Islamabad, from Feb 16.

The exhibition has been organised by the Pakistan National Council of Arts in collaboration with Lahore Museum. The Federal Additional Secretary, Culture, Akram Shaheedi, would inaugurate the exhibition.

She said the exhibition would open at 4pm on Monday and remain on display till Jan 31.

The guests of honour would include novelist Intazar Husain, poet Amjad Islam Amjad, Lahore Arts Council Board of Governors head Attaul Haq Qasmi, former secretary of culture Oriya Maqbool Jan and executive director of PNCA’s Performing Arts section Tauqeer Nasir.

Museum BoG: A 12-member board of governors for the Lahore Museum has been notified.

Comprising five official and seven non-official members, the BoGs has been named for three years, says an official of the museum.

Headed by Chief Secretary Javed Mahmood, the non-official members of the board are Hameed Haroon, Mrs Yawar Ali, Pervaiz Masood, Kamil Mumtaz and Prof Saleema Hashmi.

The official members are the Punjab chief secretary (chairman), the Planning and Development chairman, the finance secretary, the information secretary, the Lahore Museum director, the Punjab Archeology Department director-general and the National College of Arts principal.—Staff Reporter