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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.
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Migrating Modernism at SMAC chronicles Harry Seidler's radical, foreign architecture
Jul 16, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jul 16, 2025
In Venice, the newly opened San Marco Art Centre's inaugural exhibition posits a retrospective look at the socio-political impacts of Seidler's polarising works in Australia.
An intimate record of temporality: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules
Jul 02, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 02, 2025
A retrospective on the conceptual artist at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong showcases text-centric work that documents the mundane aspects of the day.
At the Hayward Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara asks you to feel what cannot be seen
Jun 13, 2025by Zohra Khan Jun 13, 2025
A travelling retrospective of the celebrated Japanese artist’s work comes to London, spanning four decades of practice.
A history of Okinawa, through photographer Mao Ishikawa’s lens
May 16, 2025by Rhea Mathur May 16, 2025
A retrospective of the Japanese photographer’s work at Mead Gallery in Coventry highlights the zeal of an artist committed to combating oppression and capturing resistance.
Transient borders: Yukinori Yanagi at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan
May 08, 2025by Eleonora Ghedini May 08, 2025
Icarus is the Japanese artist’s first major retrospective to date in Europe and reveals a topicality with the current geopolitical and environmental crisis.
Girls on swings, transforming art history: Cecily Brown’s Themes and Variations
Apr 04, 2025by Leah Triplett Apr 04, 2025
This 30 year survey of the British artist’s work at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia leaves questions unanswered.
The Broad connects Joseph Beuys’ humanist art practice to Los Angeles
Mar 04, 2025by Manu Sharma Mar 04, 2025
In Defense of Nature presents the German artist’s work and environmental advocacy, connecting to a reforestation effort.
2024 in art: Exhibitions, ecosystems and economies
Dec 31, 2024by Ranjana Dave Dec 31, 2024
STIRred 2024: This year, STIR’s art coverage mapped key events, defined trends and studied the intricate evolution of arts ecosystems and market dynamics.
Weaving a language beyond abstraction: Olga de Amaral in Paris
Dec 02, 2024by Giulia Zappa Dec 02, 2024
The Colombian artist, a pioneer of fiber art, is the focus of a major retrospective at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, challenging misconceptions about textile's expressive power.
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.
Barefoot in Sri Lanka creates spaces for design within art history discourse
Nov 02, 2024by Pramodha Weerasekera Nov 02, 2024
Sri Lanka’s modern art history is dominated by fine art – the HOUSE exhibition at Barefoot invigorated a discussion about design being fine art’s scorned relative.
‘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.
Kim Lim and Teo Eng Seng: A study in contrasts
Oct 29, 2024by Louis Ho Oct 29, 2024
Large-scale surveys of Kim Lim and Teo Eng Seng at the National Gallery Singapore highlight divergent sensibilities, exhibition aesthetics and cultural politics.
Lygia Clark at Whitechapel Gallery: Engaging Bodies and Performing Freedom
Oct 19, 2024by Deeksha Nath Oct 19, 2024
The I and the You traces Clark's journey from spatial exploration through abstraction to forefronting audience experience with manipulative objects and participatory performances.
Artist Shahzia Sikander on creating artworks that inspire discourse
Oct 11, 2024by Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Oct 11, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Shahzia Sikander reflects on her retrospective show Collective Behavior, a collateral exhibition of the 60th Venice Biennale.
The Hepworth Wakefield presents an expansive Ronald Moody retrospective
Sep 01, 2024by Manu Sharma Sep 01, 2024
Guest curator Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski discusses the Jamaican-British artist’s prolific career and this timely exhibition in an interview with STIR.
Automatons and lit mushrooms enchant at Mika Rottenberg’s Basel retrospective
Aug 20, 2024by Hili Perlson Aug 20, 2024
Staged at Museum Tinguely, the exhibition casts bodies as machine-like sites of production.
Amalia Mesa-Bains creates live records of feminist, Chicanx and personal histories
Jul 27, 2024by Kate Meadows Jul 27, 2024
El Museo del Barrio in New York stages a retrospective for a leading Chicana artist, centring memory as a strategy of cultural reclamation.
Museo Picasso Málaga shines a light on María Blanchard’s legacy
Jul 12, 2024by Manu Sharma Jul 12, 2024
Curator José Lebrero Stals discusses the Spanish painter’s moving portraiture of women and her unsung contribution to the Cubist movement.
Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien showcases Roberto Matta's frenetic surrealism
May 08, 2024by Manu Sharma May 08, 2024
Co-curator Bettina M. Busse discusses Matta's emotional "inscapes" and his artistic oeuvre in an interview with STIR.
Lee Ufan’s Berlin retrospective offers a respite from the atomised self
Jan 30, 2024by Hili Perlson Jan 30, 2024
The artist’s decades-long endeavours to reduce the personal in his work is a poignant reminder of ideas that can encompass conflicting individual experiences.
10 years after his death, 'Gabriele Basilico. My Cities' honours the cityscape photographer
Jan 05, 2024by Salvatore Peluso Jan 05, 2024
Divided across two venues—Palazzo Reale and Triennale Milano—Basilico’s retrospective documents his transition from architecture to photography in extensive detail.
UHA upholds persistence and growth with their retrospective 'Reflection—Projection'
Dec 15, 2023by Jincy Iype Dec 15, 2023
UHA's founding director Jonas Upton-Hansen and director Ricardo Mateu recall a decade of learning, purpose, and planning with their retrospective held at the STIR Gallery, New Delhi.
Performing Marina Abramović
Oct 06, 2023by Tamsin Hong Oct 06, 2023
Marina Abramović’s retrospective exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts, London, traces the artist's transgressive oeuvre, accompanied by the restaging of her iconic performances by younger contemporaries.
Reflecting the past onto the future: Carrie Mae Weems at the Barbican Art Gallery
Sep 14, 2023by Niyati Dave Sep 14, 2023
A sweeping retrospective at the Barbican takes a look at Carrie Mae Weems' three decades of politically relevant and poignant work interrogating power and images.
Reflecting upon Peter Cook's radical ideas for 'Cities'
Sep 08, 2023by John Jervis Sep 08, 2023
Richard Saltoun Gallery London's Peter Cook: Cities is a retrospective exhibition that coincides with the 60-year anniversary of Archigram’s first exhibition Living City.
'Search for Origin' unravels radical and tender features of Ana Mendieta's oeuvre
Sep 04, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 04, 2023
Ana Mendieta's retrospective Search for Origin, at MO.CO. Panacée, introduces the audience to her previously unseen works and recently discovered photographs.
Gego’s spatial drawings bolster our imagination beyond measure
Aug 16, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Aug 16, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky reviews Gego: Measuring Infinity exhibition, a major retrospective of a German-Venezuelan artist, Gertrud Goldschmidt at Guggenheim, New York.
'Vermeer': a landmark retrospective exhibition exploring the Dutch artist’s oeuvre
May 22, 2023by Sukanya Deb May 22, 2023
Rijksmuseum's extended research and curatorial project brings scholarship and conservational insight relating the 17th century Dutch painter to the digital realm.
Centre Pompidou, Paris to host the largest retrospective exhibition on Norman Foster
May 02, 2023by Jincy Iype May 02, 2023
With the participation of Foster + Partners and the Norman Foster Foundation, the ‘Norman Foster’ retrospective exhibition dedicates itself to the leader of the ‘high-tech’ architectural trend.
Andreas Gefeller's photographic practice reorients viewer's perspective on urbanity
Mar 16, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 16, 2023
Düsseldorf-based photographer Andreas Gefeller's camera functions as a tool to visually narrate a story around the realities and deceptions of urban spaces.
Beyond polka dots: exploring Yayoi Kusama from '1945 to Now' at M+, Hong Kong
Feb 17, 2023by Urvi Kothari Feb 17, 2023
STIR speaks with curators Mika Yoshitake and Doryun Chong to discover the world of cross-disciplinary artist Yayoi Kusama through her seven-decade long artistic career.
Exploring the contemporary art lineup at Art Week Tokyo
Nov 04, 2022by STIRworld Nov 04, 2022
Art Week Tokyo 2022 sees the capital city transformed into an art destination with retrospective exhibitions, immersive conversations, and interactive art.
American photographer William Klein dies, leaves behind a legacy
Sep 21, 2022by Vatsala Sethi Sep 21, 2022
As the iconic photographer passes away, we reflect on his recent work at ICP, NY - William Klein: YES - his life as an artist, his career as a photographer, and the impact he made.
William Turnbull’s retrospective exhibition celebrates the centenary of the artist’s birth
Jul 20, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Jul 20, 2022
Offer Waterman and the Estate of William Turnbull present William Turnbull's retrospective in London, highlighting the artist's prowess to create both paintings and sculptures.
Ettore Sottsass: A thousand facets of the Italian architect and designer
May 19, 2022by Salvatore Peluso May 19, 2022
An exhibition and reconstruction of an interior at the Triennale Milano, and a monographic book published by Skira reveal three hidden aspects of the Italian design maestro.
Exploring Faith Ringgold’s celebrated work in retrospective exhibition at New Museum
Mar 08, 2022by STIRworld Mar 08, 2022
American artist Faith Ringgold’s social and political art comprising figurative and quilt work made over 50 years is on display at the New Museum in New York City.
Piet Stockmans exhibits a retrospective of his works with ‘The Archive’
Feb 07, 2022by Rahul Kumar Feb 07, 2022
Belgian ceramic artist and designer opens up his studio for a major retrospective exhibition that provides informative experience about porcelain as a material.
'The Space Between Worlds' at NOMA spans Dawn DeDeaux's 50-year career
Jan 17, 2022by Shraddha Nair Jan 17, 2022
The Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at NOMA, Louisiana, Katie Pfohl, and multimedia American artist, Dawn DeDeaux, speak with STIR about climate change and the art practice.
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