•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 10, 2025
Earmarking the Biennale's culmination, STIR speaks to the team behind this year’s British Pavilion, notably a collaboration with Kenya, seeking to probe contentious colonial legacies.
by Anushka Sharma Sep 02, 2025
From climate-responsive housing in Bangladesh to cultural infrastructure in Palestine, the 2025 award recipients celebrate architecture that honours heritage and inspires hope.
by Agnish Ray Jun 20, 2025
Select exhibitors at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale probe what warfare targeting natural landscapes and urbanscapes means for the built environment.
by Aarthi Mohan Apr 03, 2025
A conversation between STIR and curator Rachele de Stefano discussed key offerings of the upcoming edition of the biennial architecture exhibition by ECC-Italy.
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 15, 2025
From displacement to belonging, this exhibition at the Smithsonian Design Triennial examines how design creates new forms of home in a changing world.
by Jincy Iype Dec 20, 2024
STIRred 2024: We recount titles published this year that inspired, provoked and provided insight, with topics ranging from propaganda graphics to sacred modernist architectures.
by Anna Seaman Nov 30, 2024
The New Zealand artist of Maori descent advocates for social justice and equity through her expressionist canvases, which are vessels of guardianship for Māori sovereignty.
by Almas Sadique Oct 28, 2024
The exhibition in the Switzerland-based museum presents projects that demonstrate processes of prepping for climatic, financial and nuclear emergencies.
by Chintan Girish Modi Oct 10, 2024
The London-based Mauritian artist talks about his research-based visual vocabulary, and the dilemmas that face artists as they work in an industry that profits from the arms trade.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 06, 2024
A recent anthology of essays published by the organisers of The Palestine Festival of Literature and edited by Mahdi Sabbagh, invokes new solidarities with the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Jul 29, 2024
In curator Lorenzo Giusti’s sensitive hands, the ninth edition of the Biennale in Italy centres on other-than-human sentience.
by Karen Chernick Jul 25, 2024
A time capsule of four artworks created over the past decade envisions possible futures for the Middle East in Looking Back at the Future.
by STIRworld Jul 24, 2024
The annual award announces 33 awardees across 11 categories addressing various pertinent global issues such as climate change, refugee crisis and more.
by Rebecca Anne Proctor Jul 13, 2024
Staged at Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, the artist’s first solo exhibition presents multi-media artworks.
by Almas Sadique May 17, 2024
In conversation with STIR, Abdulla speaks on the appropriation of the term 'decolonisation,' the power of good design and how they can help subvert institutions of power.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky May 16, 2024
Lucca Hue-Williams shares her ambitious vision for Albion Jeune, a new John Pawson-designed gallery she founded in 2023.
by Lee Daehyung Apr 30, 2024
The Triennale's eighth edition, Wild Grass: Our Lives, on view until June 9, 2024, reflects on the role of art in a time of polycrisis.
by Eleonora Ghedini Apr 29, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Speaking at the European Cultural Centre, STIR's Founder and Editor-in-Chief Amit Gupta reaffirmed the importance of intercultural dialogue.
by Mario D’Souza Mar 12, 2024
Curated by Emiliano Valdes, the Bawwaba section at Art Dubai 2024 features Indian and Latin-American artists centring themes of traditional craftsmanship, customs and folklore.
by Zohra Khan Jan 30, 2024
The pavilion presents an ingenious solution to building riveting architecture in arid regions like the UAE while needing no means for active cooling.
by Almas Sadique Jan 12, 2024
STIR in conversation with Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, co-founders of Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), for their exhibition The Power of the ‘Invisibles’, on view at Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023.
by Ayesha Adonais Aug 01, 2023
A look at the London Design Festival's 21st edition, which promises to dazzle the city with groundbreaking ideas and creative concepts, emphasising the vital role of design.
by Sunena V Maju May 20, 2023
The Golden Lion was awarded to the Brazil Pavilion and DAAR under the National and International Participation for their exhibitions Terra and Borgo Rizza respectively.
by STIRworld May 10, 2023
Taking place during the month of June, the London Festival of Architecture will take over the capital of the UK to engage with the city and its people to discuss placemaking.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Mar 31, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky reviews Owen Hopkins's new book Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects and finds it refreshing in its focus on architects and broad representation.
by Ayca Okay Jan 11, 2023
In Palma De Mallorca, Spain, CIMAM celebrated six decades of fostering art practices, with a three-day event attended by museum directors, curators, art enthusiasts, and others.
by STIRworld Dec 24, 2022
The global artist community that is part of the 5th edition of the biennale pen this open letter sharing their concerns and views.
by Vatsala Sethi Dec 10, 2022
The biennale's fifth edition, titled Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, features 200 works dispersed across Kochi, exploring conceptual underpinnings.
by Soumya Mukerji Nov 28, 2022
An immersive retrospective of the graffiti god's 100 most powerful works travels through Europe, in a first such democratic showcase installed at central public junctures.
by Salvatore Peluso Nov 26, 2022
An interview with Palestine-based architects Elias and Yousef Anastas as they carry out a multidisciplinary practice that brings together the global and the local.
by Aastha D. Nov 03, 2022
The posters range from film and tourism advertisements, to independent artworks and works published by the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL).
by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 29, 2022
With the exhibition Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories at South Asia Institute in Chicago, Pritika Chowdhry mines unsutured wounds carved by the 1947 partition of India.
by STIRworld Aug 13, 2022
JR's retrospective JR: Chronicles to travel to Kunsthalle München, Germany after its celebrated presentation at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
by Sukanya Deb Jul 15, 2022
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's new video installation at MoMA, New York, was an extension of their digital archive that looks at war torn countries, and everyday resistance.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 28, 2022
Toronto Biennial of Art: What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, with various artists and indigenous communities explored natural world and the colonial history of Toronto.
by STIRworld Jun 11, 2022
The exhibition space for Palestinian Collective, The Question of Funding, was broken into and destroyed with "cryptic death threats" graffiti in Kassel, Germany.
by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi Apr 04, 2022
STIR interviews the Indonesian collective about their curatorial plans for documenta fifteen, scheduled to take place in Kassel, Germany from June to September, 2022.
by Rahul Kumar Oct 10, 2021
The 2021 edition of the biennale investigates the ideas of inclusivity and togetherness through multi-disciplinary contemporary art created to be experienced at Moss, Norway.
by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi Jun 17, 2021
Reflecting on Australia-based Alana Hunt’s Cups of nun chai, this article emphasises on the ideas of repetition and resilience to address the recent history of violence in Kashmir.
by Aastha D. May 27, 2021
The seminar at Columbia University GSAPP complicates the global political act of eating, with particular attention to the role of commodities like sugar in constituting the Global South.
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