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A review of Backrooms, a glimpse into Behnaz Farahi's work and an opinion on how good our cities truly are attempt to answer.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"11","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-11","issue_name":"THIN LINE","issue_date":"2026-06-19","issue_top_banner":"thin-line.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"thin-line-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"The thin line as a shifting marker: Retrospectives on Michael Sorkin and Marcel Duchamp, Lubaina Himid's works in the British Pavilion in Venice, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"10","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-10","issue_name":"EPIPHENOMENON","issue_date":"2026-06-12","issue_top_banner":"epiphenomenon.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"epiphenomenon-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Are these epiphenomena? Sohrab Hura's solo show, 'A Winter Summer', Max Milà Serra's light instruments and Pooja Saxena's book 'India Street Lettering'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"9","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-9","issue_name":"CASSANDRA","issue_date":"2026-06-05","issue_top_banner":"cassandra.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"cassandra-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Whose voices do we listen to? This week's dispatch includes Nalini Malani's collateral show at the Venice Biennale and Nat Pyper's 'A Queer Year of Love'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"8","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-8","issue_name":"AGENDA","issue_date":"2026-05-29","issue_top_banner":"agenda.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"agenda-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Whose agenda is it anyway? Pavilions and installations at Venice Biennale 2026, Liam Young's solo show 'In Other Worlds', Ferrari's Luce, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"7","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-7","issue_name":"PHANTOM","issue_date":"2026-05-22","issue_top_banner":"phantom.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"phantom-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Encountering phantoms in the 'Building outside the box' category of the BRICK AWARD 26, the works of Tadeas Podracky and Casa en Mercedes by id | arkosis.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"6","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-6","issue_name":"ROOM","issue_date":"2026-05-15","issue_top_banner":"room.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"room-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Making room with Irum Rahat's solo show and the 'Denise Scott Brown: City, Street, House' exhibition, the Brazil Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"5","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-5","issue_name":"ALCHEMY","issue_date":"2026-05-08","issue_top_banner":"alchemy.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"alchemy-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Alchemical readings in the Central Pavilion's recent metamorphosis in Venice, the 'Brutalist Korea' book and interviews with Sahra Hersi and The MAAK.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"4","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-4","issue_name":"APÉRITIF","issue_date":"2026-05-01","issue_top_banner":"aperitif.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"aperitif-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"A fiction of neutrality: the 'Sharing public spaces' category of BRICK AWARD 26, 'The Eames Houses' showcase at Milan Design Week 2026, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"3","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-3","issue_name":"UNMOORED","issue_date":"2026-04-24","issue_top_banner":"unmoored.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"unmoored-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"To be unmoored is to have lost the rope, not the shore. Our Friends in Good Houses, A Fistful of Sky, London's new V&A East and more explore this tangentially.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"2","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-2","issue_name":"CROSSING","issue_date":"2026-04-17","issue_top_banner":"crossing.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"crossing-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"This week's dispatch is dedicated to Milan: Discover the upcoming activations across the city during Milan Design Week 2026 and Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"1","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-13-issue-1","issue_name":"CHIMERA","issue_date":"2026-04-10","issue_top_banner":"chimera.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"chimera-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"The chimera as an anomaly (or not): The show 'Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy'; Working together, the third category of the BRICK AWARD 26, and more.","issue_active":"yes"}],"Volume 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Circle'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"9","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-9","issue_name":"LEFTOVER","issue_date":"2025-11-28","issue_top_banner":"leftover.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"leftover-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Detecting leftovers in Vincenzo Latronico's novel 'Perfection', AITASHOP by Yatofu Creatives, the show 'The Autobiography of Hilton Seoul', and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"8","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-8","issue_name":"DASTAAN","issue_date":"2025-11-21","issue_top_banner":"dastaan.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"dastaan-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"A layered 'dastaan': The show 'Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989 – 2010', what's in store at Design Mumbai 2025 and the works of Stephen Burks.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"7","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-7","issue_name":"MIRROR","issue_date":"2025-11-14","issue_top_banner":"mirror.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"mirror-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Mirror, mirror, on the wall: HKW's 'Global Fascisms' exhibition, the photobook 'Echoing Above', an interview with José Esparza Chong Cuy, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"6","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-6","issue_name":"OUT-OF-BODY","issue_date":"2025-11-07","issue_top_banner":"out-of-body.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"out-of-body-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"An out-of-body experience with Ursula K. Le Guin's eponymous book and exhibition, Ryan Preciado's practice and Nipa Doshi's cabinet, 'A Room of My Own'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"5","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-5","issue_name":"OUROBOROS","issue_date":"2025-10-31","issue_top_banner":"ouroboros.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"ouroboros-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"The cyclical nature of time: BV Doshi's last project, the shows 'Dirty Looks' at the Barbican Centre and 'Another World is Possible' at the ArtScience Museum, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"4","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-4","issue_name":"VANISHING POINT","issue_date":"2025-10-24","issue_top_banner":"vanishing-point.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"vanishing-point-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Tracing vanishing points with STIR x RPBW's 'Building A Workshop', the show 'Duniya Parchhaiyon Ki', and Fotis Zapantiotis Associated Architects' Greek winery.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"3","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-3","issue_name":"SALT","issue_date":"2025-10-17","issue_top_banner":"salt.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"salt-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Seasoned with salt: delving into India's public toilets as more than provision, the works of ecological artist Thijs Biersteker and the fifth Bergen Assembly.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"2","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-2","issue_name":"TRANSFERENCE","issue_date":"2025-10-10","issue_top_banner":"transference.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"transference-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Gleaning transference with 'The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower' at MoMA, the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"1","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-11-issue-1","issue_name":"LOCATION","issue_date":"2025-10-03","issue_top_banner":"location.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"location-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Traversing varied global locations from ADFF:STIR's London Curtain Raiser to Taiwan for the Taipei Biennial and The Mindcraft Project 2025 in Copenhagen.","issue_active":"yes"}],"Volume 10":[{"issue_no":"12","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-10-issue-12","issue_name":"SEAMS","issue_date":"2025-09-26","issue_top_banner":"seams.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"seams-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Emerging from the seams: The photobook 'Not Here Not There’, the show 'Wohnkomplex: Art and Life in Plattenbau' and 'Occupy!' at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"11","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-10-issue-11","issue_name":"TRUE 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Ambasz', Exhibit Columbus and Jacopo Benassi's Libero!","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"8","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-10-issue-8","issue_name":"GRAIN","issue_date":"2025-08-29","issue_top_banner":"grain.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"grain-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"This week, grain begins with sustenance: an interview with Asunción Molinos Gordo, a review of the 'Graphic Languages' book and a dialogue on 'Culture of\/as Care'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"7","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-10-issue-7","issue_name":"VOICE","issue_date":"2025-08-22","issue_top_banner":"voice.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"voice-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Acknowledging and learning from the voices of Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh, the practice of Bangkok Tokyo Architecture and the 26th International Garden Festival.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"6","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-10-issue-6","issue_name":"TRYST WITH 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We explore with artist and designer Henrietta Waal, 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power' and Turkish brand Kutnia.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"3","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-10-issue-3","issue_name":"BONES","issue_date":"2025-07-25","issue_top_banner":"bones.jpg","issue_bottom_banner":"bones-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Bones and all: 'Calculating Empires' at the Venice Biennale 2025, the 2025 Folkestone Triennial and CJ Lim and Luke Angers' 'Dreams + Disillusions'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"2","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-10-issue-2","issue_name":"AFTERLIFE","issue_date":"2025-07-18","issue_top_banner":"afterlife.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"afterlife-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Chasing the afterlives of 'Women Architects at Work', Fiona Tan's 'Monomania' and 'There Is Nothing To See Here' at the Biennale Architettura this year.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"1","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-10-issue-1","issue_name":"CALIBAN","issue_date":"2025-07-11","issue_top_banner":"caliban.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"caliban-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Recognising Caliban in the 'Psychocolonial Spaces' exhibition, the photographic book 'Brutalist Italy' and Venice's local art scene.","issue_active":"yes"}],"Volume 9":[{"issue_no":"12","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-12","issue_name":"READY-MADE","issue_date":"2025-07-04","issue_top_banner":"ready-made.jpg","issue_bottom_banner":"ready-made-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"This week is Ready-Made: A conversation with Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, Internalities at the Spanish Pavilion and 'Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"11","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-11","issue_name":"EDEN","issue_date":"2025-06-27","issue_top_banner":"eden.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"eden-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Eden is still here: a conversation with Nigerian architect and curator Tosin Oshinowo, a reading of Nora Wendl's 'Almost Nothing' and 'A Poem for Deep Thinkers'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"10","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-10","issue_name":"GAZE","issue_date":"2025-06-20","issue_top_banner":"gaze.jpg","issue_bottom_banner":"gaze-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Turning inwards to gaze at Yoshitomo Nara's show at the Hayward Gallery, and examining spatial strategies of occupation and resistance in Lebanon and Palestine.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"9","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-9","issue_name":"PALIMPSEST","issue_date":"2025-06-13","issue_top_banner":"palimpsest.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"palimpsest-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"A palimpsest of narratives and ideas: 'Euforia', Tomaso Binga's retrospective; the new V&A East Storehouse in London; and Edmund Sumner's 'Casa Mexicana' book.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"8","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-8","issue_name":"CAPSULE","issue_date":"2025-06-06","issue_top_banner":"capsule.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"capsule-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Entering capsules holding memories and absences in artist Salman Toor's show 'Wish Maker', Alison Thumel's 'Architect' and Grace Prince's 'Held Absence' furniture.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"7","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-7","issue_name":"BALLAD","issue_date":"2025-05-30","issue_top_banner":"ballad.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"ballad-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Ballads of creativity and discourse: 'Five Architecture Fables', a book by Edgar Demello, 'In Minor Keys', the curatorial theme for Venice Biennale 2026 and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"6","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-6","issue_name":"CANALS","issue_date":"2025-05-23","issue_top_banner":"canals.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"canals-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Canals as cautionary tales: a review of the Biennale Architettura 2025, and interviews with the Belgium, Nordic Countries, Denmark and UAE Pavilions' curators.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"5","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-5","issue_name":"SINTESI","issue_date":"2025-05-16","issue_top_banner":"sintesi.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"sintesi-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Un-synthesising 'sintesi' with the book, 'Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows', an interview with Stefano Boeri, president of Triennale Milano and 'Synthetic Geologies'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"4","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-4","issue_name":"FINE LINE","issue_date":"2025-05-09","issue_top_banner":"fine-line.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"fine-line-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Walking the fine line by observing the National Pavilions at the VAB, an interview with Fernando Sordo Madaleno, the influence of Latin American art fairs and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"3","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-3","issue_name":"HELTER SKELTER","issue_date":"2025-05-02","issue_top_banner":"helter-skelter.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"helter-skelter-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"It's all helter skelter this week: find a 'digestible' guide to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, a conversation on Megan Tamati-Quennell's new project and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"2","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-2","issue_name":"BODY DOUBLE","issue_date":"2025-04-25","issue_top_banner":"body-double.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"body-double-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Body doubling via Ron Mueck's first solo show in South Korea, a collaborative opinion on the OpenAI-Studio Ghibli debacle and Etage Projects' 'Time is a Mother'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"1","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-9-issue-1","issue_name":"LOBBY","issue_date":"2025-04-18","issue_top_banner":"lobby.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"lobby-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Creative lobbying with Alvisi Kirimoto, the publication 'Architecture After War: A Reader', and our picks from Art Dubai 2025's Contemporary and Bawwaba sections.","issue_active":"yes"}],"Volume 8":[{"issue_no":"12","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-8-issue-12","issue_name":"GAP YEAR","issue_date":"2025-04-11","issue_top_banner":"gap-year.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"gap-year-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"This week's dispatch is suggestive of a 'gap year': Paolo Sorrentino's 'La dolce attesa', 'Broot - Dialogues from Within' and Cecily Brown's Themes and Variations.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"11","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-8-issue-11","issue_name":"ICONOCLAST","issue_date":"2025-04-04","issue_top_banner":"iconoclast.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"iconoclast-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Questioning the singular agency of creative iconoclasm with Christopher Benninger's 'Great Expectations', Arpita Singh's 'Remembering' and Ar. 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Guzmán Capron.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"1","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-8-issue-1","issue_name":"DOT","issue_date":"2025-01-24","issue_top_banner":"dot.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"dot-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Joining referential 'dots' by recounting the impact of ADFF:STIR Mumbai, examining its highlights and noting the affinity between film, architecture and spectator.","issue_active":"yes"}],"Volume 7":[{"issue_no":"12","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-12","issue_name":"FRAME","issue_date":"2024-12-20","issue_top_banner":"frame.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"frame-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Encountering 'Frames' in Jim Stephenson's 'The Architect Has Left The Building', highlights of the upcoming ADFF:STIR Mumbai, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"11","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-11","issue_name":"FIEF","issue_date":"2024-12-13","issue_top_banner":"fief.jpg","issue_bottom_banner":"fief-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Examining 'fief' in current cultural contexts through narratives of rural ingenuity, a report on COP29, and Himali Singh Soin's post-human musings.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"10","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-10","issue_name":"LITMUS","issue_date":"2024-12-06","issue_top_banner":"litmus.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"litmus-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Placing a creative litmus test to artist Emily Karaka's show 'Ka Awatea, A New Dawn', 'The Art of Balkrishna Doshi' book and the works of Civil Architecture studio.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"9","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-9","issue_name":"BLACK UMBRELLA","issue_date":"2024-11-29","issue_top_banner":"black-umbrella.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"black-umbrella-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Standing under the umbrella of Sharjah Art Foundation's president and director Hoor Al Qasimi, the show 'Past as Prologue' and Ecuador's Las Tejedoras Development Center.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"8","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-8","issue_name":"PRESENT CONTINUOUS","issue_date":"2024-11-22","issue_top_banner":"present-continuous.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"present-continuous-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Recognising creativity's present continuous nature with Beirut-based architect Bernard Khoury, artist Nikhil Chopra, Zimbabwe's Rising Star School, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"7","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-7","issue_name":"INDETERMINATE","issue_date":"2024-11-15","issue_top_banner":"indeterminate.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"indeterminate-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Considering 'indeterminate' values in our Lahore Biennale coverage, Ghanaian artist Elolo Bosoka's practice, the 'Material Worlds' group show, and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"6","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-6","issue_name":"PAUSE","issue_date":"2024-11-08","issue_top_banner":"pause.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"pause-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Introspecting creative pauses with the æquo gallery, the Folly Mojave retreat, Barbican London's show 'The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998', and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"5","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-5","issue_name":"LIGHT ABSTRACTED","issue_date":"2024-11-01","issue_top_banner":"light-abstracted.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"light-abstracted-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Abstracting light with Davide Groppi's 'acts of disobedience', Juhani Pallasmaa's 'ocularcentric culture', Rohini Devasher's 'One Hundred Thousand Suns', and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"4","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-4","issue_name":"DÉJÀ VU","issue_date":"2024-10-25","issue_top_banner":"deja-vu.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"deja-vu-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Is this déjà vu? We try to figure this out through the exhibitions 'Cloud Chamber' and 'Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph', and more.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"3","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-3","issue_name":"DAILY BREAD","issue_date":"2024-10-18","issue_top_banner":"daily-bread.jpg","issue_bottom_banner":"daily-bread-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"This week we break bread with artist Shiraz Bayjoo, Xidian Wang's 'New Domesticity' and Iwan Baan's new book 'Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"2","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-7-issue-2","issue_name":"NO FILTER","issue_date":"2024-10-11","issue_top_banner":"no-filter.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"no-filter-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Putting on (no) filters with Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander, designer and curator Mehdi Dakhli, and by studying Frieze 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it.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"12","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-6-issue-12","issue_name":"RETURN","issue_date":"2024-09-20","issue_top_banner":"return.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"return-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Returning to Indian artist Sosa Joseph's solo show, Durga Venkatesan's 'Touchy Topic' and the life of the late Didi Contractor with 'A Call to Return'.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"11","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-6-issue-11","issue_name":"SEPTEMBER","issue_date":"2024-09-13","issue_top_banner":"september.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"september-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Mapping what makes this month peculiar by visiting TeamLab's new museum and charged creative community festivals spanning Sydney, London, Dundee, New York, and 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toddler.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"8","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-6-issue-8","issue_name":"BIFOCAL","issue_date":"2024-08-23","issue_top_banner":"bifocal.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"bifocal-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Focusing on bifocal endeavours via 'Shapes of Data', the Portugal Pavilion at VAB and the redevelopment plans for earthquake-stricken Hatay by Foster + Partners.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"7","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-6-issue-7","issue_name":"CARRIER BAG","issue_date":"2024-08-16","issue_top_banner":"carrier-bag.jpg","issue_bottom_banner":"carrier-bag-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"This week, buildings, gardens, land, maps, humans and their stories become carrier bags—containers of multitudes as opposed to heroic singularities.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"6","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-6-issue-6","issue_name":"BREAKAGE","issue_date":"2024-08-09","issue_top_banner":"breakage.gif","issue_bottom_banner":"breakage-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Exploring the concept of breakage with Caroline Ghosn's Burning Man temple, which is built to burn and 'breaking' at the Paris Olympics, connecting art & sport.","issue_active":"yes"},{"issue_no":"5","issue_link":"https:\/\/www.stirworld.com\/stirfri-vol-6-issue-5","issue_name":"EN MASSE","issue_date":"2024-08-02","issue_top_banner":"","issue_bottom_banner":"en-masse-thumbnail.jpg","issue_desc":"Diving into stories en masse with filmmaker Hansal Mehta, the House in Nishizaki and Ingrid Orman's curation of the show 'Around the 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To think. To do. 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