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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.
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The peculiar case of Multitude of Sins’ fantastical quests in interior design
Jun 02, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 02, 2025
Two recent projects by the Indian studio, Pearls on Swine and Pennyroyal Tea, highlight whimsy through craftsmanship and a detail-oriented eye, emphasising the magic of stories.
i/thee's maiden ARTocka pavilion in Iowa emulates domestic dining spaces
Mar 25, 2025by Almas Sadique Mar 25, 2025
The Dining Room, one of the six public pavilions designed by i/thee for the ARTocka Trail Loop, invites the changing atmosphere to alter the morphology of its rammed earth walls.
'Ear to the Ground' delineates harmonies in Indian artist Satish Gujral's diverse oeuvre
Mar 03, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 03, 2025
Curated by Vishal K Dar at India Art Fair, the exhibition is part of the Gujral Foundation’s centenary celebrations for the late artist, presenting his works of art and design.
A minimalist vision of light and legacy shapes the 2025 BAFTA stage design
Feb 20, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Feb 20, 2025
New York-based Yellow Studio weaves recognition, fluidity and connection into a narrative celebrating cinema’s artistry at the BAFTAs.
Matyáš Chochola’s sculptures exemplify the role of art in shaping urban aesthetics
Feb 18, 2025by Almas Sadique Feb 18, 2025
Titled The Virtues and Vices of Our Time, Chochola’s 3D-printed pieces are inspired by the sculptural allegorical cycle of virtues and vices by erstwhile artist Matthias Bernard Braun.
Friend or Foe: Melanie Pocock and Marilou Laneuville on shared friendships
Oct 15, 2024by Rajesh Punj Oct 15, 2024
Friends in Love and War - L’Éloge des meilleur-es ennemi-es curated by Melanie Pocock (Ikon) and Marilou Laneuville (macLYON) explores themes of companionship.
Festival des Cabanes exemplifies designs honouring material and natural heritage
Aug 31, 2024by Almas Sadique Aug 31, 2024
The four-month architectural festival comprises the showcase of six installations within Villa Medici in Rome, that are customisable, easily dismantlable and offer space for solitude.
James Casebere explores exaggeration to create visceral architectural images
Aug 03, 2024by Zohra Khan Aug 03, 2024
Yasmeen Lari’s Chulha cookstove to BV Doshi’s affordable housing in India, the American artist unveiled a range of stimulating architectural imagery for his recent show in New York.
'Encounters' at Art Basel Hong Kong centres the artist's voice, enables cultural exchange
Apr 02, 2024by Hili Perlson Apr 02, 2024
Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, 'Encounters' is dedicated to large-scale projects and new work which speaks for the region’s strength and connectivity.
Barbican Centre’s exhibition 'Unravel' weaves transcultural dialogue through textile
Mar 01, 2024by Deeksha Nath Mar 01, 2024
Exploring the subversive potential of textiles, the multigenerational exhibition features over 100 works by 50 international artists and redefines textile art in a global context.
Lee Ufan’s Berlin retrospective offers a respite from the atomised self
Jan 30, 2024by Hili Perlson Jan 30, 2024
The artist’s decades-long endeavours to reduce the personal in his work is a poignant reminder of ideas that can encompass conflicting individual experiences.
Marc Leschelier's exploration of architecture as a metalanguage, with Pavilion X
Dec 03, 2023by Almas Sadique Dec 03, 2023
The Paris-based architect and sculptor built Pavilion X, a demountable structure that exists at the intersection of sculpture and architecture, which is a structure sans function.
Are deserts going to be the next white cube?
Nov 28, 2023by Sakhi Sobti Nov 28, 2023
Amidst the urgency of the climate crisis, initiatives such as Art D'Égypte and DesertX bring the natural and cultural world closer.
Daniel Shieh's 'Where Time Runs Backwards' is a narrative of art, history and identity
Oct 06, 2023by Aarthi Mohan Oct 06, 2023
STIR explores the multifaceted artistry of Taiwan-born artist Daniel Shieh in the multimedia exhibition Where Time Runs Backwards at The Arts Center at Governors Island.
Horizons Arts-Nature en Sancy: Artistic renditions in the midst of nature
Sep 12, 2023by Almas Sadique Sep 12, 2023
The event presents the showcase of ten artworks across the natural expanse of Massif du Sancy in France.
British sculptor Antony Gormley presents ‘Living Time’ at TAG Museum, China
Sep 10, 2023by STIRworld Sep 10, 2023
Curated by Fan Di'an, Living Time displays over 35 sculptures and sculptural installations which present Antony Gormley’s inquiry into spaces as stages of becoming.
'Indigo Waves and Other Stories' traces links between the continents Asia & Africa
Aug 19, 2023by Urvi Kothari Aug 19, 2023
Indigo Waves and Other Stories Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora at Gropius Bau & SAVVY Contemporary observes how kinship has existed as part of Asian-African exchanges prior to the formation of nation-states.
Suchi Reddy's contemplative kaleidoscope for the National Building Museum
Jul 25, 2023by STIRworld Jul 25, 2023
For the museum’s 2023 Summer Block Party, Suchi Reddy has designed Look Here - a composition of reflective fractals inspired by the Japanese "magic mirror".
‘Web(s) of Life’: An evolutionary tapestry at Serpentine Gallery
Jul 11, 2023by Sakhi Sobti Jul 11, 2023
Serpentine Gallery presents Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno whose practice is built on the foundation of constructive environmental solutions and narratives.
Eiko Otake's video installation 'Mother' brings forth bodily experience on mortality
Jun 17, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 17, 2023
Eiko Otake with her latest artwork Mother at Historic Chapel, Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, drew on the maternal lineage to set the framework of who we are in the present.
'Undergod' by Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran: a buzzing urban grotto of deities
May 16, 2023by Urvi Kothari May 16, 2023
The contemporary artist converted Sullivan+Strumpf into a mythical playground by curating a series of inclusive, secular, electrifying and bold Undergod warrior sculptures.
Tracing the footprints of Desert X 2023 in the Coachella Valley
Apr 27, 2023by Urvi Kothari Apr 27, 2023
Activated by 12 installations, Desert X promises to convert Coachella Valley into a road map instrument. The experiential journey raises some pressing socio-economic concerns.
Martand Khosla and Sean Anderson 'On the brink' of art and architecture
Apr 24, 2023by Beth Citron Apr 24, 2023
At the Nature Morte gallery, the architect-turned-artist and the Cornell professor engage in a conversation, making incisive reflections on the cities and the socialities we inhabit.
Hemali Bhuta's work at the Singapore Biennale dapples with the dualities of art
Apr 22, 2023by Urvi Kothari Apr 22, 2023
Hemali Bhuta’s exploration of an intangible quality like time into a recalcitrantly present sculptural entities at the Singapore Biennale.
Of and for the indigenous land and peoples: Qaammat Pavilion by Konstantin Arkitekter
Feb 07, 2023by Jincy Iype Feb 07, 2023
In conversation with STIR, Konstantin Ikonomidis recounts his experience of building the Qaammat Fjeld pavilion in Greenland, inspired by the powerful land and lives of the Innuit.
Es Devlin honours ‘Your Voices’ through a revolving kinetic sculpture in NYC
Dec 20, 2022by Jincy Iype Dec 20, 2022
Your Voices, an illuminated public sculpture by Es Devlin at the Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza in New York represented the “most linguistically diverse city on the planet."
Visual democracy underlines Wolfgang Tillmans' 'To look without fear'
Nov 21, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Nov 21, 2022
German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' first museum survey at MoMA, New York, encapsulates his practice at its best — a fine amalgamation of digital inventiveness and social sensitivity.
Creating gender equity awareness through design: 50 Queens by BIG and Georg Jensen
Oct 24, 2022by Jincy Iype Oct 24, 2022
Giulia Frittoli (BIG), and Ragnar Hjartarson (Georg Jensen) on the 50 Queens installation and the custom necklace designed to mark Queen Margrethe II’s 50th Jubilee.
Premiering in the city of love, Art Basel embraces Parisian aesthetic
Oct 23, 2022by STIRworld Oct 23, 2022
A total of 156 French and international galleries are showcasing art, from paintings and sculptures to photography and digital works, as part of Art Basel's debut edition in Paris.
The One Tree project furnishes a new life for a dying ash tree through design
Oct 13, 2022by Sunena V Maju Oct 13, 2022
At LDF 2022, the One Tree project by SCP brought together a group of designers, artists and craftspeople to create different pieces from parts of the same ashwood tree.
For Portia Munson consumerism is a site to decipher violence on ecology and feminism
Oct 02, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 02, 2022
Accumulation of objects produced at a massive scale for the multimedia artist Portia Munson serves as the material to produce the sculptural installations which are maximalist.
Es Devlin’s ‘Come Home Again’ installation is a plea to conserve urban biodiversity
Sep 29, 2022by STIRworld Sep 29, 2022
At the Tate Modern Garden near St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, the sculptural artwork features a cross sectional model of the cathedral’s dome housing drawings of at-risk 243 species.
‘The Waiting’ by Monica Bonvicini plays with the notion of fears and expectations
Sep 17, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 17, 2022
The Waiting, an installation by Italian artist Monica Bonvicini at La Ribaute, indicts the urban design to talk about the inherent prejudice of patriarchal and socio-culture structures.
Job Smeets’ ‘Embrace’ dips the rear façade of KunstKerk in ironies and iconography
Sep 12, 2022by Zohra Khan Sep 12, 2022
The Dutch artist has transformed the rear side of a disused 19th century Dordrecht church into a bronze and glass sculpture that piques you to see more the longer you look.
The notion of dual opposition informs the latest exhibition 'below above' by Liz Larner
Sep 11, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 11, 2022
Sculptor Liz Larner with below above at Kunsthalle Zürich raises attention to the ecological imbalance while maintaining the idea of contradiction pertinent to her oeuvre.
STIRring Dreams: Wallace Chan presents sculptural exhibition at Venice Art Biennale
Sep 07, 2022by Sukanya Deb Sep 07, 2022
The exhibition Totem at Fondaco Marcello in Venice explores the notion of a fragmented reality through a dis-assemblage sculpture, exploring the art object in veneration.
'The Hop' by Jyll Bradley at the Hayward Gallery is about time, memory and light
Sep 05, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 05, 2022
The site-specific installation The Hop, a new commission by Jyll Bradley at the Hayward Gallery, reimagines the cultural history of the 20th century London.
De-layering the show 'Blemish, In Deep Pink Everyplace Begins' by Rina Banerjee
Sep 01, 2022by Urvi Kothari Sep 01, 2022
Rina Banerjee’s imaginative, complex and layered world comes to life at the Hunterdon Art Museum as she explores ideas of gender, identity, beauty, and human psyche.
Lines intersect in Hannes Zebedin’s sculptural installation ‘(Non)-Places’
Aug 26, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 26, 2022
Absentee bodies are among the complex subjects on display as part of the work (Non)-Places at Graben, Vienna, that critiques the rifts between the haves and the have-nots.
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