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How the Whitney Biennial 2026 reimagines the new American
Mar 11, 2026by Sunena V Maju Mar 11, 2026
The 82nd Whitney Biennial 2026 is a group show that reflects the ‘turbulent existential weather’ of the United States today.
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Meeting Bruce Goff: Objects, imagination and an unconventional practice
Mar 05, 2026by Sunena V Maju Mar 05, 2026
At the Art Institute of Chicago, Bruce Goff: Material Worlds moves beyond architecture to reveal the curiosity and cultural influences that shaped the American architect’s work.
Amoako Boafo and Glenn DeRoche on collaboration and building spaces for art
Feb 24, 2026by Chahna Tank Feb 24, 2026
STIR speaks with the Ghanaian artist and architect about their evolving collaboration and architecture as an extension of Boafo’s practice across a four-part exhibition series.
100 Candleholders at Blunk Space is a meditation on design beyond utility
Feb 16, 2026by Chahna Tank Feb 16, 2026
The design exhibition marks the second iteration of Blunk Space’s ‘100’ series, bringing together 100 designers to reimagine the candleholder through various sculptural forms.
Ai Weiwei on censorship and hypocrisy, and his first visit to India
Feb 16, 2026by Samta Nadeem, Srishti Ojha Feb 16, 2026
STIR spoke with the renowned contemporary artist on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in India.
Patriotic prints and precious things at the 72nd Winter Show in New York
Feb 12, 2026by Sunena V Maju Feb 12, 2026
At New York’s Park Avenue Armory, gleaming silver, Tiffany glass and framed constitutional prints quietly reveal the comforts and contradictions of elite collecting.
From the Upper Valley in the Foothills at Marta finds resilience in making
Feb 09, 2026by Chahna Tank Feb 09, 2026
For the exhibition, 22 Los Angeles–based designers responded to the 2025 wildfires through furniture and objects that explore care, resilience and renewal, using salvaged wood.
Being and becoming: Embracing in-betweenness in Artizon's In the midst of
Feb 07, 2026by Avani Tandon Vieira Feb 07, 2026
The sixth edition of Artizon Museum’s Jam Session presented a fluid understanding of place and past.
Not just a chair: Urs Fischer elevates the banal through absurdity in Shucks & Aww
Jan 31, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jan 31, 2026
The Swiss designer and artist brings humour, ambiguity and art-world provocation to design, where functionality gains abstract underpinnings.
Of motherhood as a continuum and things that make and break our births
Jan 30, 2026by Zohra Khan Jan 30, 2026
An embodied response to the exhibition Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births examines how design shapes care, access and maternal experience.
In Osaka, the placard is an object of resistance and a rhetorical framework
Jan 16, 2026by Avani Tandon Vieira Jan 16, 2026
This exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Osaka searches for new forms of political articulation.
Paparazza Moderna by Lake Verea reveals the strife and desires that made modernism
Jan 15, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 15, 2026
Photographic chronicles by Mexico City-based Lake Verea—‘Frenemies’ and ‘Lovers’—aim to showcase the stories that make up modernist architecture and the designers behind it.
Architectural Construction Kits 1890 – 1990 and the evolution of building play
Jan 13, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Jan 13, 2026
Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum uncovers the political, cultural and inventive forces embodied in construction kits made of stone, wood and plastic.
Inside Zohran Mamdani’s defiant and unruly campaign design, radiant with purpose
Jan 01, 2026by Chahna Tank Jan 01, 2026
Designed by the creative co-op Forge, the campaign design fused multilingual signage, comic-book vibrancy and grassroots energy into a distinctly New York aesthetic.
Out of ConText at WAF 2025 prioritised critical inquiry over conclusions
Dec 27, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Dec 27, 2025
Curated by Vladimir Belogolovsky, the exhibition presented works by seven global architects while re-centring architectural conversation around human intervention.
Joyce Lin spotlights furniture design's Hypernatural dimension in a New York show
Dec 22, 2025by Chahna Tank Dec 22, 2025
STIR speaks with Houston-based artist and sculptural furniture designer about her exhibition at R & Company that bends reality and bypasses material limitations through imitation.
Christiane Paul on creating a sustainable ecosystem for digital art
Dec 19, 2025by Lee Daehyung Dec 19, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, the digital art curator talks about the challenges and responsibilities of shaping a lasting digital art landscape for museums and artists.
Alice Gavalet transposes tartan patterns onto vibrant ceramics in Pattern Play
Dec 16, 2025by Chahna Tank Dec 16, 2025
STIR speaks with the French ceramic artist about her exhibition at the Twenty First Gallery, New York, exploring her vibrant palette, tartan motifs and the role of joy in her practice.
ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026 promises a radical vision connecting cinema, space and city
Dec 15, 2025by Jincy Iype Dec 15, 2025
From engaging films to cinematic pavilions and curated talks, STIR unveils what’s in store ahead of the second edition of the Architecture and Design Film Festival in Mumbai.
What we talk about when we convene for climate action: COP30 and the way ahead
Dec 11, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 11, 2025
Amid several controversies surrounding the UN's annual COP held in Belém this year, a critical exploration of the delegation’s climate action objectives is tantamount.
A forgotten Compton storefront gets a bold new life in its redesign by Kadre Architects
Dec 10, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Dec 10, 2025
A burnt roof and a forgotten ceiling reveal unexpected generosity, as a blighted building in Compton, California, is transformed into a beacon of care for the local community.
Diane Arbus’ intimate look at the Sanctum Sanctorum of strangers
Dec 09, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 09, 2025
A show at the David Zwirner gallery in London brings together a selection of the American photographer’s portraits from the last years of her life, portraying a subtle shift in style.
Calder Gardens and the quiet power of landscape-driven design
Dec 04, 2025by Sunena V Maju Dec 04, 2025
A firsthand visit and insights from Piet Oudolf show how the art institution in Philadelphia reshapes the relationship between art, architecture and landscape.
At BDNY 2025, design becomes a lens on influence, immersion and industry
Nov 27, 2025by Sunena V Maju Nov 27, 2025
This year’s trade fair revealed how boutique design has evolved beyond aesthetics into a powerful system of influence, emotion, experience and economic optimism across the industry.
The material stories of Manos y Materia by Nada Duele convey fragility and endurance
Nov 20, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Nov 20, 2025
Chanelling ancestral skill and honest materiality, the design studio proffers contemporary designs which become a testimony to endurance and care.
Stephen Burks on the vital role of craft in imagining pluralistic, inclusive worlds
Nov 19, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 19, 2025
In conversation with STIR, the founder of Stephen Burks Man Made discusses the importance of recognising the role of indigenous communities in crafting inclusive futures.
EXIT Ceren’s debut furniture series enacts Tetris with the joyful Pixel Theory
Nov 17, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 17, 2025
New York-based spatial designer Ceren Arslan transforms the visual aesthetic of video games and digital realms into a playful, modular design collection.
Fractured visions: Multiplying Japan’s realities at Tokyo's National Art Center
Nov 14, 2025by 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.
Storefront for Art and Architecture through the eyes of José Esparza Chong Cuy
Nov 13, 2025by Sunena V Maju Nov 13, 2025
In conversation with STIR, José Esparza Chong Cuy, executive director and chief curator of Storefront, discusses his professional journey and what’s next for the organisation.
Geometry articulates multiple dimensions in Farshid Moussavi’s Ismaili Center Houston
Nov 12, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Nov 12, 2025
The United States’ first Ismaili civic and cultural complex features perforated stone screens, complemented by a geometric landscape by Nelson Byrd Woltz.
Donald Judd’s Marfa: a fire, a philosophy, a restoration of a restoration
Nov 08, 2025by Sunena V Maju Nov 08, 2025
Following a seven-year restoration by Schaum Architects that explores how buildings are treated as complete systems, Donald Judd’s Architecture Office opens in Marfa, Texas.
A Shared Scaffolding considers temporary frameworks sustaining enduring forms
Nov 06, 2025by Chahna Tank Nov 06, 2025
Drawing inspiration from the anatomy of a circus tent, the design exhibition by Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery x BRUISES presents works reflecting on structure and balance.
Ryan Preciado on the dialogue between personal memory, history and heritage
Nov 03, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 03, 2025
In an interview with STIR, the Los Angeles–based designer, artist, and curator discusses how both the Memphis school and his Chumash heritage inform his creative vision.
Lutz Bacher's first posthumous retrospective reads like a lasting afterimage
Nov 03, 2025by Hili Perlson Nov 03, 2025
In its layered terrain, the show doesn’t explain who Lutz Bacher was—it renders the question beautifully irrelevant.
Architecture Hunter Awards 2025 winners champion social and environmental impact
Oct 16, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Oct 16, 2025
For its sophomore year, the awards announced winners across 28 categories that forward a contextually and culturally diverse architectural ecosystem.
Masculinity, memory and myth find a Hero’s Wreck by Colin Knight at Superhouse Gallery
Oct 14, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Oct 14, 2025
In his solo show, the American artist and designer showcases handcrafted furniture, lighting and products made from salvaged leather, beeswax and sheepskin.
A SHIFT in the art of architecture at the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Oct 09, 2025by Sunena V Maju Oct 09, 2025
Under the artistic direction of Florencia Rodriguez, the sixth edition of the biennial reexamines the role of architecture in turbulent times, as both medium and metaphor.
Fragmented histories: Reliving The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower at MoMA
Oct 08, 2025by Jerry Elengical Oct 08, 2025
An exhibition about a demolished Metabolist icon examines how the relationship between design and lived experience can influence readings of present architectural fragments.
The Playground Project on reimagining childhood, risk and public spaces
Oct 07, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Oct 07, 2025
At Melbourne’s Incinerator Gallery, a travelling exhibition presents a series of immersive installations that reframe playgrounds as cultural spaces that belong to everyone.
Joyful queer utopias: City in A Garden at MCA Chicago
Oct 06, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 06, 2025
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art delves into the clandestine spaces for queer expression around the city of Chicago, revealing the joyful and disruptive nature of occupation.
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