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Look at the Sun: On the work of James Turrell, Kimsooja and Lee Eunsun
Aug 08, 2025by Lee Daehyung Aug 08, 2025
The three contemporary artists counter digital acceleration with art that demands stillness and introspection.
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In her own image: The radical practice of Emma Amos
Jul 23, 2025by Deeksha Nath Jul 23, 2025
Amos shaped a practice of formal innovation and political resistance, centring the frontal figure as a site of radical visibility and cultural critique.
The home and the world: Rashid Johnson’s multivalent Black selfhood
Jun 24, 2025by 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.
Do you see light?
Mar 20, 2025by Samta Nadeem Mar 20, 2025
Presented by the Dia Art Foundation, Light into Space at NMACC in Mumbai challenges rigid perceptions of reality and art, offering an unconventional spatial experience.
'The New Television' bridges historical and present-day discourse on video art
Mar 14, 2025by Manu Sharma Mar 14, 2025
The publication reprints a long-forgotten text on early video art and combines it with contemporary essays on the topic.
The Pinakothek celebrates eccentricity in an intergenerational group show
Jan 10, 2025by Manu Sharma Jan 10, 2025
Curators Eva Karcher and Bernhart Schwenk explore eccentricity and connect it to contemporary art in an interview with STIR.
Where nothing is quite as it seems: Paul Pfeiffer at Guggenheim Bilbao
Dec 25, 2024by Tabish Khan Dec 25, 2024
Are sport, music and film replacing religion? Paul Pfeiffer interrogates this notion through film, sculpture, sound and installations in this major survey exhibition.
A Noah Davis retrospective offers a surreal vision of everyday Black life
Dec 01, 2024by 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.
A contemporary exhibition unpacks American art’s institutional past
Nov 21, 2024by Kate Meadows Nov 21, 2024
Past as Prologue does more than celebrate The National Academy of Design’s 200th anniversary: it reckons with its origins in American colonialism.
Cindy Sherman’s ‘Anti-Fashion’ gains new meaning amidst Antwerp’s Ensor Year
Nov 15, 2024by Hili Perlson Nov 15, 2024
A survey of the photographer’s flirtation with fashion reveals unexpected links to the Belgian iconoclast.
Christine Kozlov’s solo show marks a new chapter at the Academy of Arts and Letters
Nov 05, 2024by Kate Meadows Nov 05, 2024
Renovated and reimagined, a storied New York City institution opens its doors to the public with one of Conceptual art’s earliest practitioners.
‘Pacita Abad’ is a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the late artist’s work
Nov 01, 2024by Manu Sharma Nov 01, 2024
AGO’s Renée van der Avoird joins STIR for an interview exploring Abad’s love of travelling and how it inspired her vibrant artmaking.
Untangling pain, joy, care and violence in the history of American art
Oct 21, 2024by Sunena V Maju Oct 21, 2024
STIR dives into Toward Joy, the Brooklyn Museum’s latest exhibition, with curator Stephanie Sparling Williams.
Exploring media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson’s monumental Düsseldorf show
Oct 20, 2024by Manu Sharma Oct 20, 2024
Lisa Long, artistic director of the Julia Stoschek Foundation examines Hershman Leeson’s path breaking ‘Electronic Diaries’ in an interview with STIR.
The Armory Show brings artists from marginalised backgrounds to the US Open
Sep 04, 2024by 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.
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.
Ingrid Orman on curating Tschabalala Self’s exhibition 'Around the Way'
Aug 02, 2024by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 02, 2024
The curator speaks with STIR about transposing Harlem—where the American artist was born and raised—within the Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Finland for this landmark solo show.
The Phillips Collection shines a light on Black American collage art
Jul 30, 2024by Manu Sharma Jul 30, 2024
In an interview with STIR, Co-Curators Katie Delmez and Adrienne L Childs discuss the multifarious approaches to collage making on display in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage.
Christina Quarles' fragmented bodies travel to the Nordics this summer
Jul 19, 2024by Alice Godwin Jul 19, 2024
Shadow and burning light cut through the American painter’s exhibition at the historic Gammel Strand on Copenhagen’s canals.
In Venice, Latin American artists highlight historically silenced voices
Jul 15, 2024by Mercedes Ezquiaga Jul 15, 2024
STIRring ‘Everywhere’ in Venice: Manuel Chavajay, Violeta Quispe Yupari, La Chola Poblete, Joseca Yanomami and Elyla merge ancestral and contemporary practices at the Biennale.
Mike Cloud discusses his offbeat and self-referential painting practice
Jul 14, 2024by Manu Sharma Jul 14, 2024
The American artist talks semiotics, collage-making and non-traditional framing formats, in an interview with STIR.
Remembering Faith Ringgold for her expansive practice, bridging art and life
May 30, 2024by Florence Derieux May 30, 2024
Subverting notions of Black identity and gender performativity across five decades, Ringgold set the stage for artists and women of colour across modern art.
Gesture and drawing: Two major retrospectives of Joan Jonas open at MoMa
May 25, 2024by Kate Meadows May 25, 2024
In New York, The Drawing Center stages an exhibition with 60 years’ worth of drawings made by the performance artist in tandem with her most extensive retrospective to date.
Taryn Simon's sound installation explores ancient rituals of loss at Cisternerne
May 06, 2024by Alice Godwin May 06, 2024
Performed by professional mourners in Denmark, Start Again the Lament is inspired by the anatomy of grief from around the world, including Wayuu and Yazidi laments.
Foreigners Everywhere: Venice Biennale becomes a cradle of fraught purpose
Apr 23, 2024by Charlotte Jansen Apr 23, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Curator Adriano Pedrosa’s show is brave and bold and has moments of brilliance, but as a whole, it remains incoherent and incomplete.
Richard Serra (1938 - 2024), the artist who rethought contemporary sculpture
Apr 19, 2024by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 19, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky writes about the American sculptor who drew on space, volume and gravity to craft his gigantic sculptures.
'Stan VanDerBeek: Transmissions' - Machine Man with a Human Heart
Apr 14, 2024by Marcus Civin Apr 14, 2024
A record of early tech evangelism, the exhibition includes collages, drawings, and films from the 1950s-70s, reflecting on some of the major political events of the artist’s lifetime.
Elective affinities: 'Hard/Soft' at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna
Apr 11, 2024by Eleonora Ghedini Apr 11, 2024
Exploring the similarities between the only apparently opposite media of textiles and ceramics, the exhibition awakens our senses as well as our desire for tactility.
Unpicking the phenomenon of ‘Cute’ beyond its aesthetics
Apr 05, 2024by Almas Sadique Apr 05, 2024
The exhibition in Somerset House, London, explores the influence that cute culture has on one’s well being, whilst also tracing its murky usage in pop culture.
Diamond Stingily on her inconclusive art and proclivity for open narratives
Mar 28, 2024by Kate Meadows Mar 28, 2024
New York-based artist Diamond Stingily talks to STIR on her recent summer residency in Paris, her second life as a writer and articulating the strangeness of grief.
The Whitney’s ‘Fragments of a Faith Forgotten’ puts a focus on Harry Smith
Jan 20, 2024by Manu Sharma Jan 20, 2024
Co-curator Rani Singh discusses the late American artist’s tryst with faith, magic and New York.
‘Meredith Monk. Calling’ presents the breadth of the artist's diverse work
Dec 22, 2023by Manu Sharma Dec 22, 2023
In a conversation with STIR, curator Anna Schneider explores the interconnectedness of Meredith Monk’s practice.
Luis Sahagun's art unites indigenous histories with contemporary realities
Oct 20, 2023by Sakhi Sobti Oct 20, 2023
Mexican-born American artist's practice is a testament to the graceful reconciliation of complex cultural identities.
Nemo Gould explores gun violence through his practice
Oct 05, 2023by Manu Sharma Oct 05, 2023
The American artist's work combines found materials to create evocative sculpture pieces that speak to contemporary issues.
'Waxy Fruits': Eric von Stein’s uncanny, AI-generated, vintage-inspired images
Sep 26, 2023by Manu Sharma Sep 26, 2023
The American artist and toymaker discusses his application of older artificial intelligence image generation software to create this unique aesthetic.
'The World Is Yours': a visual affirmation by American artist Bisa Butler
Jun 19, 2023by STIRworld Jun 19, 2023
Textile artist Bisa Butler’s The World is Yours at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York reintroduces a forgotten African American quilting tradition as a contemporary art form.
Michael E. Smith’s sculptures are bound to production and consumption
Jun 14, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 14, 2023
The exhibition by Michael E. Smith at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, navigates the readymade objects to shed light on the fundamentals of life, death and decay.
'There is no god and we are his prophets' imagines a world driven by fanaticism
Jun 03, 2023by Manu Sharma Jun 03, 2023
American artistic duo Esteban Whiteside and John Brendan Guinan explored a new world order in their recent exhibition, reflecting on the fragility of human civilisation ruled by a dominant few.
Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle's tribute to avant-garde artist Niki de Saint Phalle
Jun 02, 2023by Rosalyn D`Mello Jun 02, 2023
Viewing the exhibition Niki De Saint Phalle in the company of a sea of random visitors contributed to the visceral gush the fleshy works innately evoke.
Sanlorenzo and Piero Lissoni set a new course for the future of yachting industry
Apr 28, 2023by Sunena V Maju Apr 28, 2023
For Milan Design Week 2023, Sanlorenzo presented the installation, La Machine Impossible by Piero Lissoni, narrating the future of the propulsion of yachts.
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