Roots, seeds and slow activism at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025
Aug 12, 2025by Vamika Sinha Aug 12, 2025
This year’s Edinburgh Art Festival takes a slower, deeper curatorial approach, integrating within its home city more than ever before.
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by Vamika Sinha Aug 12, 2025
This year’s Edinburgh Art Festival takes a slower, deeper curatorial approach, integrating within its home city more than ever before.
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by Zohra Khan Jun 13, 2025
A travelling retrospective of the celebrated Japanese artist’s work comes to London, spanning four decades of practice.
by Anushka Sharma Jun 02, 2025
In her first solo museum show in China, the Waanyi artist from Australia reflects on land, water and ancestral memory, mapping insidious ecological loss.
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by Leah Triplett Apr 04, 2025
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by Hili Perlson Mar 28, 2025
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by Manu Sharma Feb 17, 2025
The art fair returns to Jeddah for its second edition and creates intersecting narratives around Islam and Saudi Arabia.
by Manu Sharma Jan 30, 2025
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A deep dive into one of the largest open-air museums in Latin America, which situates art in a lush natural environment.
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On the heels of co-founder Hayao Miyazaki’s Magsaysay award win, the iconic Japanese animation house presents its debut show in Singapore.
by Soumya Mukerji Sep 26, 2024
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A look at four compelling artists showing at the US Open and the dialogues with tennis and athleticism that their works engage in.
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by Aarthi Mohan Jul 26, 2024
In an exclusive interview with STIR, Caroline Ghosn reveals the emotional journey and design challenges that shaped her design of this year’s Temple at Burning Man.
by Manu Sharma Jun 09, 2024
Artist and curator Xun Sun connects with STIR to discuss the show’s central work The Shock Dream in Circus.
by Manu Sharma May 23, 2024
Co-curator Shinya Takahashi explores the exhibition’s thematics and its connection to Kyoto’s rich artistic history.
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.
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Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen envelops tall architectural edifices with large-scale textile installations to let the viewers undertake a personal journey.
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