•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Agnish Ray Jun 20, 2025
Select exhibitors at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale probe what warfare targeting natural landscapes and urbanscapes means for the built environment.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 27, 2025
The biennale's organisers acknowledged the passing of curator Koyo Kouoh, reiterating their support for her curatorial vision of "a collective score composed together with artists".
by Karen Chernick May 12, 2025
In an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the artist uses her body and found objects to create raw, tactile works.
by Anushka Sharma Mar 20, 2025
In an exclusive conversation, Yura Boguslavsky, animation director and co-founder of the collective, takes STIR behind the scenes of his evocative and experimental film repertoire.
by Almas Sadique Feb 14, 2025
The book, associated with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, explores an understanding of architectural evolution in the context of climate change.
by Hili Perlson Nov 22, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Female goddesses and advanced medical technology meet in a feminist saga about fertility and self-determination at the Israel Pavilion.
by STIRworld Oct 31, 2024
As AI technology continues to advance, STIR looks at artists like Harold Cohen and Yousuke Fuyama using AI for artistic and philosophical projects.
by Hili Perlson Oct 01, 2024
At a moment of personal and national crisis, Eshkol turned to textile works, now on view in Berlin.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 06, 2024
A recent anthology of essays published by the organisers of The Palestine Festival of Literature and edited by Mahdi Sabbagh, invokes new solidarities with the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
by Karen Chernick Jul 25, 2024
A time capsule of four artworks created over the past decade envisions possible futures for the Middle East in Looking Back at the Future.
by Lee Daehyung Apr 30, 2024
The Triennale's eighth edition, Wild Grass: Our Lives, on view until June 9, 2024, reflects on the role of art in a time of polycrisis.
by Hili Perlson Mar 07, 2024
The director of The Wrong Movie, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, speaks to STIR about the referential language of screenplays.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jun 30, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to New York-based artist Vitaly Komar, the co-founder of Sots Art who combines different styles in his sarcastic diptychs, triptychs, and polyptychs.
by Hili Perlson Feb 05, 2023
Michal Rovner’s exhibition Alert at Fondazione Merz in Turin is the result of long nights spent in the fields watching jackals.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 10, 2022
Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie releases his memoir If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture, revealing the stories of his professional life, fond projects, and Israeli roots.
by Rahul Kumar Aug 23, 2022
Illustrative Chronicles: Shira Barzilay, an Israeli illustrator also known as Koketit, plays with her distinctive style on everyday life.
by STIRworld Aug 13, 2022
JR's retrospective JR: Chronicles to travel to Kunsthalle München, Germany after its celebrated presentation at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
by Rahul Kumar Aug 02, 2022
STIR looks at the art and design of illustration as a discipline to narrate stories of the contemporary urban, created in digital and non-digital formats.
by Daria Kravchuk Jul 26, 2022
Gertrude Flentge, one of the curators from the artistic team of documenta fifteen, who was working with ruangrupa since the early 2000s, comments on the current state of events.
by Manu Sharma Jul 17, 2022
Anna Elena Torres and Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson discuss their work in collaboration with The Yiddishland Pavilion, for Venice Art Biennale 2022.
by Gerard McGuickin Jul 08, 2022
Centred around the theme For Now, the design week responds to the idea of an 'ongoing present'—one that must be examined in order to design for it.
by STIRworld Jun 11, 2022
The exhibition space for Palestinian Collective, The Question of Funding, was broken into and destroyed with "cryptic death threats" graffiti in Kassel, Germany.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 24, 2022
British-Israeli photographer and video artist Ori Gersht oversees nature as an embodiment of cultural and historical metaphors, providing quaint translation through photographs.
by Anmol Ahuja Dec 18, 2021
STIR rounds up the most groundbreaking shoe designs from 2021 that broke the mould and challenged conventionality in footwear, adding much more than zing to your feet.
by Manu Sharma Dec 16, 2021
Artist Mark Serdtse explores his captivating digital arts practice, and the fascinating life journey that shaped it.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 10, 2021
Leveraging the plasticity of polyurethane foam casting, the Israeli designer has developed a ‘one-man shoe factory’ capable of producing custom-made footwear in mere minutes.
by Shraddha Nair Nov 08, 2021
Between Wounds and Folds on view at Smack Mellon New York initiates a difficult conversation around meat and global warming.
by Anmol Ahuja Oct 15, 2021
Next up in UNSCRIPTED, this week’s episode sees artist and designer Arik Levy bring the best of two worlds together with his unique brand of design, humour, and freedom.
by Jincy Iype Aug 28, 2021
Baranowitz & Goldberg’s Barragan-inspired colour-blocked partitions inside the spacious Kaza furniture showroom in Tel Aviv, Israel, create a rhythmic, theatrical interior.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jul 31, 2021
Installations by the Tel Aviv-based artist, Gal Weinstein, are made with a variety of materials to draw attention towards the imbalance in nature when humans go against the wave of time.
by Sonal Shah Jul 09, 2021
STIR speaks with some of the greatest icons of our times – the dramatic creations by 70-year-old British-Israeli industrial designer, Ron Arad, are an ode to the unconventional.
by STIRworld Jul 01, 2021
Ini Archibong’s Pavilion of the African Diaspora receives the Best Design Medal for its remarkable design, acting as a platform for people of the African Diaspora to be seen and heard.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 10, 2021
At the Jewish Museum of Belgium, the exhibition Ellis Island with a variety of works by the artists of different generations, is a visual walk through the meaning of home and belonging.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Apr 03, 2021
Wafa Hourani’s art practice, a blend of architecture, graphic design, filmmaking, photography and sculpture, plays with the idea of reality and fiction to create multimedia works.
by Manu Sharma Mar 05, 2021
Israeli digital artist Ofir Liberman is on a quest to find technology that connects us to reality and rouses his audience from virtuality.
by Manu Sharma Feb 17, 2021
STIR interviews Brazilian photographer and visual artist Paulo Abreu to explore his sublime and melancholic gestural configurations.
by Zohra Khan Dec 11, 2020
The New York-based firm combines contextual connections and a melding of purpose and form in the design of the new headquarters of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
by Pallavi Mehra Oct 27, 2020
The Netina collection by the Israeli designer comprises shoes that hold everyday objects, which are meant to be lent or shared with others.
by Jincy Iype Oct 17, 2020
The observatory by Gitai Architects is built with earth, sand and stone from the Mitzpe Ramon crater in Israel's Negev desert that it sits within, linking landscape and material.
by Jincy Iype Apr 07, 2020
Neri Oxman: Material Ecology, curated by Paola Antonelli at the Museum of Modern Art displays projects such as a pavilion spun by silkworms and material created from bacteria.
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