•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Bansari Paghdar Jul 16, 2025
In Venice, the newly opened San Marco Art Centre's inaugural exhibition posits a retrospective look at the socio-political impacts of Seidler's polarising works in Australia.
by Anushka Sharma Jul 12, 2025
The California-based artist channels his knowledge of digital tools to emulate the fragility and precision of the Japanese craft in porcelain.
by 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.
by Bansari Paghdar Jun 05, 2025
The Vienna-based artist presents Dust Buddies, a series of sculptures inspired by microscopic extraterrestrial particles as cosmological explorations.
by Aarthi Mohan May 29, 2025
The South Korean artist's ongoing showcase at the Tate Modern captures the essence of migration and layered memories of home.
by Lee Daehyung Apr 21, 2025
For his first solo exhibition in Korea, Mueck presents sculptures conceived across three decades which draw us inward, beckoning reflection on the nature of existence.
by Manu Sharma Jan 08, 2025
Curator Natasha Becker discusses the artist’s expression of queer pride through sculptures made from urban refuse.
by 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.
by Manu Sharma Nov 13, 2024
The publication explores nearly two decades of installation art by the German artist, focusing on his approach to carefully balancing visibility and discretion.
by Louis Ho Oct 29, 2024
Large-scale surveys of Kim Lim and Teo Eng Seng at the National Gallery Singapore highlight divergent sensibilities, exhibition aesthetics and cultural politics.
by Manu Sharma Oct 27, 2024
Curator Pernilla Wiik explores Sosnowska’s show at EMMA and discusses the significance of her thought-provoking work, in an interview with STIR.
by Kwame Aidoo Oct 26, 2024
The Museum of Science and Technology, Accra presents a solo show by the Ghanaian artist, consisting of visual compositions drawn from the artist’s everyday mobile practice.
by Niren Tolsi Oct 22, 2024
The Other Side of Now reckons with complex transcontinental colonial histories, acknowledging the intergenerational nature of violence.
by Manu Sharma Oct 14, 2024
In conversation with STIR, Edith Devaney, artistic director of MICAS, discusses the introductory programme for Malta’s first contemporary art museum.
by Jaime Chu Oct 13, 2024
At Para Site, Cloud Chamber stages the complex legacy of settler colonialism and modernisation in Vietnam's Central Highlands with much room for reflection.
by Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Oct 11, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Shahzia Sikander reflects on her retrospective show Collective Behavior, a collateral exhibition of the 60th Venice Biennale.
by Manu Sharma Oct 03, 2024
The legendary Indian artist continues to go strong, past the age of 90. STIR engages with his multidisciplinary practice in a show at Bikaner House.
by 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.
by Zeynep Rekkali Jensen Sep 21, 2024
The Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist's largest solo show to date explores the intersection of geopolitical, social, and environmental histories in the Middle East and the Caribbean.
by Rajesh Punj Sep 06, 2024
Reflecting on her show Alchemies, the sculptor discusses the cyclical lives of her sculptures, in all of their incarnations, in a conversation with STIR.
by Manu Sharma Sep 04, 2024
A look at four compelling artists showing at the US Open and the dialogues with tennis and athleticism that their works engage in.
by Manan Shah Sep 02, 2024
The conceptual artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in the UK, Climacteric Whispers, highlighted ecological crises through multimedia works created over 15 years.
by Manu Sharma Sep 01, 2024
Guest curator Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski discusses the Jamaican-British artist’s prolific career and this timely exhibition in an interview with STIR.
by Hili Perlson Aug 26, 2024
Centred on the tensions within the artist's work, the show at Museo Novecento includes works that have never been exhibited before.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 24, 2024
Art museums, this writer attests, are inherently toddler-unfriendly. This art critic mother braved a visit while solo parenting.
by Manu Sharma Aug 13, 2024
The highly successful travelling show Art of the Brick amazes audiences in London’s Boiler House.
by Kate Meadows Aug 12, 2024
At Socrates Sculpture Park, the artist connects with natural elements through works that celebrate themes of transatlantic migration and women’s domestic labour.
by Urvi Kothari Aug 10, 2024
Using everyday objects as a tool for introspection, the visual artist’s solo show explores fundamental issues such as home, migration, identity and safety.
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 Anushka Sharma Jul 06, 2024
The Prague-based architecture firm designs a new residential block that pays homage to the urban fabric of Karlin while experimenting with integration of sculpture in architecture.
by Eleonora Ghedini Jun 08, 2024
Anselm Kiefer. Fallen Angels encounters a Renaissance architectural masterpiece, exploring existential themes through eclectic materials and techniques.
by Manu Sharma May 29, 2024
Curator Jessica S Hong explores the late pop artist Maria Sol Escobar's sculpture practice and the usage of scale in an interview with STIR.
by Dilpreet Bhullar May 09, 2024
Santillán's solo exhibition The Andean Information Age at Copperfield, London, challenges colonial taxonomies and knowledge structures.
by Rémy Jarry May 07, 2024
The first private institution to open in the city’s Saadiyat Island Cultural District, the Foundation offers programming that is free and open to everyone.
by Daria Kravchuk May 01, 2024
An artist, a fisherman and a farmer, Kazunori Hamana draws upon the Japanese art of making tsubo, functional clay jars.
by Manu Sharma Apr 28, 2024
Co-curator Dávid Fehér discusses the Hungarian master’s haunting human portraiture and focus on mass-media with STIR.
by Ekta Mohta Apr 24, 2024
Akara Contemporary turns into a shop floor for Miyazaki’s recycled and upcycled car parts for Blooming at the End of the World.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 19, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky writes about the American sculptor who drew on space, volume and gravity to craft his gigantic sculptures.
by Tabish Khan Apr 16, 2024
With a defined focus on emerging artists, miart in Milan makes for a compact pitstop on the way to the Venice Biennale
by Almas Sadique Apr 15, 2024
Melodie Leung and Gregg Glass combine their individual skill, expertise and knowledge to shape the amber sculpture, presentation case, and casks for The Dalmore.
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