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by Bansari Paghdar Sep 25, 2025
Middle East Archive’s photobook Not Here Not There by Charbel AlKhoury features uncanny but surreal visuals of Lebanon amidst instability and political unrest between 2019 and 2021.
by Chahna Tank Aug 18, 2025
With four new installations, this year’s edition of the festival reimagines the garden as a space to interrogate how borders, both political and ecological, define the world we inhabit.
by 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.
by 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.
by Srishti Ojha Jul 30, 2025
The Bagri Foundation’s series, A Woman Hums: Women, Voice, Creativity, brings together women curators, artists, filmmakers and writers from across Asia and its diaspora.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 28, 2025
An exhibition at the London-based institute curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Mathilde Friis, and Bunny Kinney harps on the effects of digital media on our physical lives.
by Alice Godwin Jul 17, 2025
An exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary explores how art underlines the growing enmeshment of humans and robots.
by Zohra Khan Jul 11, 2025
The book by Stefano Perego and Roberto Conte chronicles a side of Italian architecture that was “built and tested – with courage, perhaps with madness, often in the pursuit of utopia”.
by Eleonora Ghedini Jul 08, 2025
An exploration of some innovative curatorial practices while walking and talking in a city that keeps reinventing itself beyond every dreamy idealisation.
by Srishti Ojha Jul 04, 2025
KADIST and ILHAM present 27 artists and collectives who reflect on the violent setting of the plantation and its role as a model for Western capitalism.
by Zohra Khan Jul 04, 2025
The Brooklyn-based co-lead of Anton & Irene looks back on his journey so far as a Tallinn-raised architecture graduate finding his ground in interaction design.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 27, 2025
The Nigerian architect speaks to STIR about her project at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, touching on informality and resourcefulness as an alternative to hyperconsumerism.
by Avani Tandon Vieira Jun 24, 2025
The artist’s mid-career survey at the Guggenheim, New York, presents a plural imagination of medium, community and self.
by Samta Nadeem Jun 19, 2025
(Un)Layering the future past of South Asia: Young artists' voices emphasises regional interconnectedness, despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.
by Aarthi Mohan Jun 12, 2025
From austere retreats to luxury villas, this book by Edmund Sumner and Jonathan Bell offers a vivid exploration of the building art of Mexican homes.
by Aarthi Mohan May 19, 2025
Currently on display at the Museum of Art & Photography in Bengaluru, India, this exhibition delves into the intertwined histories of trade and cultural identity.
by Manu Sharma May 09, 2025
NGS curator Qinyi Lim offers deeper insight into the installation in a conversation with STIR.
by Aarthi Mohan May 05, 2025
From capturing fleeting moments to uncovering universal truths, the 2025 edition reveals the depth of visual storytelling across cultures, eras and disciplines.
by Sonali Bhagchandani Aug 17, 2024
The group show at Mumbai’s Jhaveri Contemporary stages a poetic encounter between Lionel Wendt, Cassie Machado and Vasantha Yogananthan.
by Ranjana Dave Aug 01, 2024
Friendship and shared spaces set up a curatorial framework for this exhibition by a group of local artists at New Delhi’s India International Centre.
by Manu Sharma Jul 24, 2024
On the eve of the Paris 2024, we look at the Olympic athletes who have excelled in both art and sport. Here are STIR’s top picks.
by Aarthi Mohan Jun 13, 2024
Zanele Muholi celebrates Black LGBTQ+ lives through evocative visual activism in a powerful narrative that confronts societal norms and champions resilience.
by STIRworld May 31, 2024
As the LFA steps into its 20th year, STIR picks the best of exhibits that explore, celebrate and probe the multifaceted landscape of contemporary architecture across London.
by STIRworld May 30, 2024
STIR presents an excerpt from a new book edited by Javier Fernández Contreras, Roberto Zancan and Vera Sacchetti, proposing a “nocturnal epistemology” of architectural history.
by Rhea Mathur May 17, 2024
In Braiding dusk and dawn at the Delfina Foundation, the visual artist centres overlooked historical narratives through oral archives and visual documentation.
by Jincy Iype May 16, 2024
With Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture, Jamie McGregor Smith visually surveys the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe.
by STIRworld Apr 13, 2024
Curated by Jefferson Hack of Dazed Media, this large-scale public exhibition at Milan Design Week 2024 inspires audiences to dream big.
by Kate Meadows Apr 07, 2024
The artist, who uses formal and idiosyncratic approaches in her research, speaks to STIR about her solo exhibitions at Kai Matsumiya in New York—Independence Day 1934-1975 and Lithium Balance.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Mar 27, 2024
The Mrinalini Mukherjee Creative Arts Grant winner talks to STIR about grounding his practice in collaborative proclivities.
by Manu Sharma Mar 06, 2024
Gallerist Mortimer Chatterjee explores contemporary Indian artist Nikhil Chopra's unnerving landscape works in an interview with STIR.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 22, 2024
The photo book by the Japanese designer captures acts of cleaning, considering the seeming banality of it, and how it mediates our relationship with our environment.
by Daria Kravchuk Feb 18, 2024
Interdisciplinary artist Faina Yunusova on the expectations and oriental fantasies embedded in the post-colonial heritage of Central Asia.
by Anushka Sharma, Devanshi Shah Feb 16, 2024
The architectural exhibition by Rohit Raj Mehndiratta analyses the transmutative act of demolition and the vestiges of urban artefacts they create.
by Rhea Mathur Feb 15, 2024
Ivan Forde, Leo Robinson and Richard Ayodeji Ikhide come together for the group exhibition, Polymythologies to introduce visitors to an alternate and healed universe.
by Manu Sharma Feb 14, 2024
Editor Jonathan D. Katz joins STIR to explore two of the book’s featured practices and their importance to queer culture.
by Sukanya Deb Feb 13, 2024
In a journey through the body as material using analogue photographic techniques, the artist presents a monochrome exploration of performance, shadows, and the grotesque.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jan 28, 2024
In an interview with STIR, Alana Hunt walks us through her interest in the present as a means to revisit difficult histories to reflect upon the making of daily lives.
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 21, 2024
Through noteworthy exhibitions and curatorial perspectives from the recently concluded Mosaic Biennale in Ravenna, STIR delves into the fusion of tradition and modernity.
by Jincy Iype Jan 08, 2024
Hand and Machine. Architectural drawings at Norway's National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design investigates the roles of drawing in architecture, and of architecture in society.
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 06, 2024
STIR explores the hidden tales within the world of architecture as photographer Alastair Philip Wiper’s lens takes you on a visual odyssey in his evocative book, Building Stories.
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