•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Srishti Ojha Jul 30, 2025
The Bagri Foundation’s series, A Woman Hums: Women, Voice, Creativity, brings together women curators, artists, filmmakers and writers from across Asia and its diaspora.
by Manu Sharma Feb 14, 2024
Editor Jonathan D. Katz joins STIR to explore two of the book’s featured practices and their importance to queer culture.
by Rahul Kumar Apr 26, 2023
STIR speaks with visual artist Sophie Allerding, who employs artificial intelligence and her body as a medium to rewrite histories and challenge oppressive and destructive narratives.
by Jincy Iype Dec 28, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR revisits objects that rallied for activism and sustainability this year, from furniture made of upcycled plastic waste to assistive desktop robots for the ageing.
by 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.
by STIRworld Jun 23, 2022
The multi-coloured, customisable Xbox Pride Controller 2022 is garbed in 34 community flags inspired by stories and identities of the LGBTQIA+ community for Pride month, and beyond.
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 Soumya Mukerji Mar 07, 2022
On International Women's Day, STIR speaks with the woman who has been critical in shaping one of the world’s most powerful architectural firms: the Bjarke Ingels Group.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 19, 2021
Zdziarska, a student of Politecnico di Milano, is the latest recipient of the grant from RIBA and the Norman Foster Foundation for her research on women’s safety in urban cities.
by Manu Sharma Jun 14, 2021
Born in the US, and now based in Sydney, Kim Leutwyler is ana artist who creates stunning portraiture exploring the LGBTQ+ community.
by Girinandini Singh Jun 07, 2021
Indu Antony on avoiding the trap of the ‘saviour complex’ as an artist working with marginalised issues of gender, class equity, feminism, and LGBTQ+ rights.
by Jerry Elengical Jun 02, 2021
LEGO's first LGBTQIA+set called 'Everyone is Awesome', designed by Matthew Ashton, features a cascade of colours with 11 unique figurines inspired by the iconic rainbow flag.
by Shraddha Nair May 17, 2021
The Delhi-based multidisciplinary artist talks about his experiences as part of a minority community in a regressive caste-system based society, from which his artistic journey stems.
by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi Mar 19, 2021
New Delhi-based contemporary artist questions the idea of ‘secular’ in our politically-charged times through his art practice.
by Meghna Mehta Apr 13, 2020
Designed by Italian architect, illustrator and activist Francesca Perani, NEUTRA is a collection of 55 gender-fluid silhouettes flaunting only eyes, nipples and belly buttons.
make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
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