•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Erik Augustin Palm Nov 14, 2025
Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989 – 2010—on view at The National Art Center, Tokyo, co-curated with Hong Kong’s M+—uses its titular prism metaphor to examine Japan’s cultural transformations.
by Hili Perlson Mar 28, 2025
The Swiss artist, who shot to fame in recent years, is staging her first institutional show in Switzerland at MASI Lugano, titled Many Moons.
by Giulia Zappa Jan 31, 2025
In conversation with Designer of the Year, Faye Toogood, STIR explores the fair's evolving outlook and familiar tropes while probing her oeuvre and inspirations in Womanifesto!.
by Aarthi Mohan Dec 31, 2024
STIRred 2024: From spiritual gardens to Cornish rectories, these landmark spaces offer new ways to explore history, art and identity through their innovative architecture.
by Nikitha Sunil Nov 25, 2024
The avant-garde oil mill in Ronda, Spain fuses Andalusian tradition, surreal artistry and an experiential journey into the world of oleotourism.
by Hili Perlson Nov 15, 2024
A survey of the photographer’s flirtation with fashion reveals unexpected links to the Belgian iconoclast.
by Tamsin Hong Oct 18, 2024
After a few conservative years post-pandemic, Frieze 2024 shows that the art market and exhibition programmes are both more confident, experimental and global.
by Manu Sharma May 19, 2024
Surrealism and Us curator María Elena Ortiz joins STIR in an interview, to add nuance to the intergenerational exhibition.
by Manu Sharma May 08, 2024
Co-curator Bettina M. Busse discusses Matta's emotional "inscapes" and his artistic oeuvre in an interview with STIR.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 25, 2024
Ali AlYousefi’s recent book Labyrinth of Rooms: An Architectural Allegory presents a unique perspective on architecture, perception and representation.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 15, 2024
Part of Fuorisalone 2024, an exhibition of Italian designer, artist and filmmaker Villoresi’s work at the IULM University delves into the strange world between dreaming and waking.
by Sakhi Sobti Dec 02, 2023
Art exhibition Witchcraft and Surrealism at LAMB Gallery explores the witch archetype in art history through 11 female artists inspired by Surrealism.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Aug 08, 2023
Surrealist photography by Swedish photographer duo Inka and Niclas Lindergård fosters a relationship across the triad of nature, family and camera lens.
by Manu Sharma Jul 31, 2023
Artists Catharine Czudej and Gowoon Lee discuss their distinctive art practices that explore the darker side of nostalgia.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 15, 2023
The Austrian architecture photographer ascends difficult terrains to create photographs, allowing viewers to experience a milieu that is hitherto unseen, yet continues to survive.
by Urvi Kothari Dec 11, 2022
Taking over the Rotunda at Tate St. Ives, Pachpute pays homage to the community of coal miners and their contribution to the ecology, in an alluring but unsettling installation.
by Jincy Iype Nov 03, 2022
Speaking to STIR, the Chinese photographer summarises her travels to 40 countries over 10 years, for her futuristic architectural photography series, Eternal Monuments in the Dark.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 21, 2022
Swedish photographer and visual artist Erik Johansson with his rich body of work brings together disparate situations and objects together to keep the viewers attentive.
by 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.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 02, 2022
Polish painter Piotr Janas' exhibition Blue Is the Decayed Pink at Thomas Erben Gallery features paintings and video work created to accentuate the visceral quality of human body.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 21, 2022
The UK-based environmental artist Steve Messam with his 'bigger than a house' site-specific installations disturbs the familiar face of the landscape to unfold stories around it.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 19, 2022
STIR speaks with curator Anna Daneri to discuss the approach to developing the showcase, which has been designed to be an “exhibition-cum-laboratory".
by Sukanya Deb Mar 08, 2022
Part two of a three-part series probes the works of Hannah Höch, Meret Oppenheim, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Claude Cahun, away from masculinist approach to art history.
by Shraddha Nair Mar 02, 2022
Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger share details about works like COPAIN (2021), and an examination of the history of bread, revealing insightful cultural commentaries.
by Rahul Kumar Feb 28, 2022
In the first of a three-part series, we investigate the idea of modernism in various regions after a century of the beginning of the movement in the West.
by Shraddha Nair Feb 22, 2022
SMACK, Luesita, Cassie McQuater, and Miao Xiaochun among other artists respond to the 15th century masterpiece Garden Of Earthly Delights at Matadero Madrid.
by Anmol Ahuja Jan 22, 2022
While the Italian artist-designer-filmmaker-animator barely begins to scratch the surface of his repertoire, Virgilio Villoresi coalesces his dreamy inspirations in a conversation with STIR.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Aug 29, 2021
Danish artist-duo Elmgreen & Dragset strives to critique the institutional settings of their public art installations famous for recontextualising the objects with an artistic twist.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Aug 08, 2021
The exhibition Specters of Noon with sculptures by Allora & Calzadilla at the Menil Collection, Texas, addressed colonial expansion and geopolitics' repercussions on humans and nature.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jul 29, 2021
Hyperreal iceberg series by the Los Angeles-based artist, Luciana Abait, part of the exhibition A Letter to the Future, talks about the fragile state of environment.
by Shraddha Nair Apr 16, 2021
Born and raised in the US, Mark Rogers brings together magical realism with alien fantasy in a supernatural combination, which draws in the viewer.
by Manu Sharma Dec 15, 2020
Minneapolis-based artist Pancreas Supervisor creates visceral assemblages that defy rational thought.
by Sukanya Garg Sep 05, 2020
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s immersive polka-dotted, phallic-sculptured infinity room - Love is Calling - is a culmination of her journey towards the sublime.
by Sonal Shah Apr 13, 2020
STIR speaks with some of the greatest icons of our times – the sculptured paintings by 80-year-old Hughes are paradoxes that enthrall the viewer visually and intellectually.
by Rahul Kumar Dec 16, 2019
Cibic’s ongoing exhibition at Palazzo Podestarile in Florence, Italy, is a satirical reaction to the contemporary consumeristic society.
by Sukanya Garg Jul 01, 2019
Flowers braved the New York winter in Brooklyn-based artist Hein Koh’s sculptural art installation, 'Braving the Cold' displayed at the Rockefeller Centre.
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