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Jacopo Benassi’s Libero! is a punk-infused rebellion against images
Aug 25, 2025by Hili Perlson Aug 25, 2025
In Genoa, the Italian artist disrupts the photographic image’s dominance.
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The shape of memory: Negotiating visibility in Chan Hau Chun’s Map of Traces
Aug 18, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Aug 18, 2025
The Hong Kong artist’s moving image work examines loss and persistence in a fragmented urban landscape.
Roots, seeds and slow activism at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025
Aug 12, 2025by Vamika Sinha Aug 12, 2025
This year’s Edinburgh Art Festival takes a slower, deeper curatorial approach, integrating within its home city more than ever before.
The Cairo Road sees Zambian artists taking representation into their own hands
Aug 11, 2025by Srishti Ojha Aug 11, 2025
A group exhibition at Strangers House in Mumbai features photographer Alick Phiri and other contemporary artists from Lusaka as they overwrite colonial narratives.
Painting as palimpsest: a survey of Julie Mehretu’s work comes to Germany
Jul 11, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 11, 2025
KAIROS / Hauntological Variations’ a journey through the Ethiopian-American artist’s career, will be on view at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.
Somos raíces: indigenous art, resistance and memory at Círculo de Bellas Artes
Jun 20, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jun 20, 2025
Rooted in ancestral knowledge, the exhibition in Madrid, Spain, showcases paintings and sculptures by Santiago Yahuarcani and Nereyda López, narrating histories of the Peruvian Amazon.
In the presence of others: Salman Toor's bodily poetics
Jun 03, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Jun 03, 2025
In Wish Maker at Luhring Augustine, the painter explores modes of physical assembly, and the imaginative possibilities they make visible.
Maria Saleh Mahameed juggles movement and memory in ‘Peace of Mind’
May 12, 2025by 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.
Designing for delight and optimism at Superstudio Più's 25th anniversary at MDW
Apr 19, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Apr 19, 2025
From tactile installations to digital forms, this year’s showcase was an exploration of how happiness transforms design into an agent of hope and connection.
Art meets life: In Hong Kong, broader economic trends shape the art market
Apr 11, 2025by Ranjana Dave Apr 11, 2025
In a frenetic week of art fairs, auctions, exhibitions and parties, Hong Kong channels longer histories of global trade.
Girls on swings, transforming art history: Cecily Brown’s Themes and Variations
Apr 04, 2025by Leah Triplett Apr 04, 2025
This 30 year survey of the British artist’s work at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia leaves questions unanswered.
Building worlds: Arpita Singh’s artistic mapping of memory and history
Apr 02, 2025by Deeksha Nath Apr 02, 2025
The artist’s first institutional solo show outside India, Remembering, at Serpentine North, reflects an illustrious six-decade career through large-scale paintings and intimate ink drawings.
Wedding photos, 'boterismo' and Korean film stars: Your guide to Art Basel Hong Kong
Mar 24, 2025by STIRworld Mar 24, 2025
STIR spotlights eight artists presented by galleries across the Asia-Pacific region at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025.
The cycle of life in Manu Parekh's 'Flower Sutra' at Nature Morte
Mar 18, 2025by Manu Sharma Mar 18, 2025
Nature Morte, New Delhi, presents small and large paintings by Parekh that brim with movement and religiosity.
'One Island, One Museum', and 1004 stories
Mar 07, 2025by Lee Daehyung Mar 07, 2025
Korea’s artistic landscape expands to experimental galleries and a floating museum across quiet islands to emerge as a reservoir of creative expression.
Rein Wolfs on broadening the conversation around art at Stedelijk Museum
Feb 28, 2025by Manu Sharma Feb 28, 2025
STIR in conversation with the director of the Amsterdam museum about its efforts to build an inclusive programme and collection.
Tipping point: The Sharjah Biennial 16 on our hopes, fears and anxieties
Feb 21, 2025by Ranjana Dave Feb 21, 2025
Intersecting contexts and frames of reference become pieces of a puzzle for the five curators of ‘to carry’.
Two Temple Place celebrates the multifariousness of working-class identity
Feb 10, 2025by Manu Sharma Feb 10, 2025
Curator Samantha Manton explores the intergenerational group show Lives Less Ordinary: Working-Class Britain Re-seen in an interview with STIR.
The ambivalence of images: Rexy Tseng at Magenta Plains
Feb 06, 2025by Leah Triplett Feb 06, 2025
In his first New York presentation, Tseng parses our relationship to pictures of disaster and destruction.
India Art Fair 2025: STIR brings you its list of must-visit booths
Feb 04, 2025by Manu Sharma Feb 04, 2025
STIR helps you navigate the art fair’s 100-plus booths so that you get the most out of your festival experience.
BIO28 in Ljubljana conceives of flowers as 'Double Agents' in design
Jan 11, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 11, 2025
Presented by The Museum of Architecture and Design and the Centre for Creativity, the biennale questions if designers ‘speak the language of flowers’.
Trần Lương on art and activism: “Art is a way to fight for justice”
Jan 07, 2025by Anna Seaman Jan 07, 2025
Vietnamese artist Trần Lương’s survey exhibition Tầm Tã—Soaked in the Long Rain at Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre delves into personal and political histories.
Dreaming as artistic practice in 'Zvakazarurwa' by Portia Zvavahera
Jan 03, 2025by Maximiliane Leuschner Jan 03, 2025
At Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, the Harare-based artist Portia Zvavahera intimates her subconscious revelations across 15 fabled paintings.
The jungle is both muse and canvas for artist Vivian Suter
Dec 28, 2024by Mercedes Ezquiaga Dec 28, 2024
From her studio in Panajachel, Guatemala, to Lisbon’s MAAT, Suter’s paintings reflect her deep bond with the environment, capturing the chaos and serenity of nature.
Tate Modern’s ‘Electric Dreams’ explores tech art before the internet
Dec 22, 2024by Manu Sharma Dec 22, 2024
Curator Val Ravaglia explores the massive group show and connects it to contemporary discourse in an interview with STIR.
‘Three Tired Tigers’ unpacks shared relationships between animals and humans
Dec 21, 2024by Dilpreet Bhullar Dec 21, 2024
Through the lens of politics, history, economics and urbanism, this Dubai exhibition proposes a four-legged perspective of human life and urban landscapes.
Cyprien Gaillard uses cutting-edge technology in a trippy vision of Germany
Dec 07, 2024by Hili Perlson Dec 07, 2024
Retinal Rivalry is a technological and conceptual masterpiece on the peculiarity of public space.
Richard Peduzzi's 'Perspective': A total work of art between design and theatre
Dec 02, 2024by Giulia Zappa Dec 02, 2024
At the Galerie des Gobelins in Paris, the manifesto exhibition on designer and scenographer Richard Peduzzi honours 50 years of his career marked by a holistic approach to decorative arts.
A Noah Davis retrospective offers a surreal vision of everyday Black life
Dec 01, 2024by Manu Sharma Dec 01, 2024
STIR takes a closer look at the American artist’s dreamlike works, which express his counter-narrative to racist propaganda.
Emily Karaka's political landscapes stand out in 'Ka Awatea, A New Dawn'
Nov 30, 2024by Anna Seaman Nov 30, 2024
The New Zealand artist of Maori descent advocates for social justice and equity through her expressionist canvases, which are vessels of guardianship for Māori sovereignty.
Art Mill Museum’s ‘MANZAR’ offers a complex view of modernity in Pakistan
Nov 29, 2024by Ranjana Dave Nov 29, 2024
MANZAR: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today surveys over eight decades of creative practice in an exhibition at the National Museum of Qatar in Doha.
Cindy Sherman’s ‘Anti-Fashion’ gains new meaning amidst Antwerp’s Ensor Year
Nov 15, 2024by Hili Perlson Nov 15, 2024
A survey of the photographer’s flirtation with fashion reveals unexpected links to the Belgian iconoclast.
Christine Kozlov’s solo show marks a new chapter at the Academy of Arts and Letters
Nov 05, 2024by Kate Meadows Nov 05, 2024
Renovated and reimagined, a storied New York City institution opens its doors to the public with one of Conceptual art’s earliest practitioners.
Bose Krishnamachari blurs boundaries between art and design at 'DTale Archist (I)'
Oct 17, 2024by Jones John Oct 17, 2024
The launch of an art gallery in Whitefield by the veteran artist and curator at DTale’s third retail store in India reevaluates how design may be viewed alongside art.
Fair's fair – or is it?
Oct 09, 2024by Digby Warde-Aldam Oct 09, 2024
Frieze London is upon us. Since the turn of the century, major art fairs have changed the way the art world operates – and not everyone is happy about it.
The story of the canary in the mine: Hanif Kureshi x urbanism
Oct 01, 2024by Ayaz Basrai Oct 01, 2024
Architect Ayaz Basrai reflects on the enduring legacy of his friend and peer, artist Hanif Kureshi.
Transgenerational wisdom: The story of the Suh family
Sep 22, 2024by Lee Daehyung Sep 22, 2024
Artist Suh Do Ho and architect Suh Eul Ho offer a fresh look at their father Suh Se Ok’s ink paintings at Frieze Seoul, in a multigenerational showcase of Korean art.
We don’t know Sosa Joseph’s girls
Sep 16, 2024by Maanav Jalan Sep 16, 2024
In her debut European solo show at David Zwirner, Indian painter Sosa Joseph draws figments from her girlhood onto canvas.
Alfredo Cramerotti maps meaning to method in artist Ding Yi’s practice
Sep 12, 2024by Ranjana Dave Sep 12, 2024
The curator discusses the Chinese artist’s first institutional survey in Europe, at Château La Coste, in a video interview with STIR.
Joya Mukerjee Logue harnesses identity and belonging at Vadehra Art Gallery
Sep 03, 2024by Ranjana Dave Sep 03, 2024
In her first solo exhibition in India, the artist, raised in Ohio, draws on memories of family life back home in Ambala, India.
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