•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 19, 2026
From neighbourhood-based projects to broader urban questions, this year’s design festival foregrounds how design engages identity, material and responsibility across Toronto.
by Ranjana Dave Oct 17, 2025
Built around the collection of its founder Nurlan Smagulov, this private museum of modern and contemporary art opened to audiences in September 2025, offering exhibitions and collateral programming.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 02, 2025
This year’s edition of the annual design exhibition by Copenhagen Design Agency, on view at The Lab, Copenhagen, is curated by Pil Bredahl and explores natural systems and geometry.
by Jincy Iype May 08, 2025
'Curiouser and curiouser!': with eclectic scales, thresholds and illusions, the renovated Neo-Jacobean structure coalesces historic architecture and contemporary design.
by Manu Sharma Feb 04, 2025
STIR helps you navigate the art fair’s 100-plus booths so that you get the most out of your festival experience.
by Manu Sharma Jan 30, 2025
Early February will see a slew of captivating shows presented in Delhi in conjunction with the art fair, and here are some standout picks.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 29, 2025
An exhibition in the walled city of Jodhpur, organised by Sutrakala Foundation, JDH Jodhpur and curated by the textile expert questions present notions of embroidery and embellishment.
by Almas Sadique Jan 22, 2025
The art and design festival hosts events that deliberate upon identity, heritage, loss, grief, migration, material exploration, neuroarchitecture and more.
by 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.
by Shalmali Shetty Nov 25, 2024
STIR interviews Edinburgh-based artist Debjani Banerjee, discussing her exhibition Jalsaghar, which reimagines India through memory, mythology and place.
by Hannah McGivern Nov 12, 2024
This group exhibition at Warwick Arts Centre explores how contemporary artists engage with textiles as a medium and a concept to convey ideas of culture, identity and history.
by Hili Perlson Oct 01, 2024
At a moment of personal and national crisis, Eshkol turned to textile works, now on view in Berlin.
by Eleonora Ghedini Jul 23, 2024
The Nasjonalmuseet exhibition Moving the Needle explores the link between the Sámi people and their homeland, and the environmental fragility of the Arctic tundra.
by Almas Sadique Jun 22, 2024
The art festival showcased site-specific art installations that were mindful of the land and resources utilised to build them up.
by 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.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 23, 2024
The Dung Dkar cloak, designed by Hungary-based artist duo presents new possibilities for human computer interaction through its interactive surface.
by Deeksha Nath Mar 01, 2024
Exploring the subversive potential of textiles, the multigenerational exhibition features over 100 works by 50 international artists and redefines textile art in a global context.
by Kate Meadows Dec 27, 2023
STIR speaks with textile artist Sagarika Sundaram, who inquires into the origins of felt-making, fibre arts, and her textile innovations.
by 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.
by Shraddha Nair Feb 27, 2023
Tate Modern is showcasing the work of late Polish artist and her famous installation Abakans, woven from a variety of fibres, which pushed the boundaries of textile art.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 04, 2023
The exhibition The Future is Present at the Design Museum, Denmark, curated by Pernille Stockmarr, has four key themes Human, Society, Planet+ and Imagining the Future.
by Shraddha Nair Nov 19, 2022
Beirut-based installation artist Rumi Dalle talks to STIR about her art through the lens of gender dysphoria, immigrant culture, heritage and folklore.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 29, 2022
Slovakian fibre artist Terézia Krnáčová with her art practice conceives conceptual fibre installations to let the viewers reimagine conventional meanings of weaving.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jul 16, 2022
Jannick Deslauriers creates life-size sculptural installations with fine yards of aluminium mesh, tulle, silk, and thread to visually translate the effects of hauntology.
by Shraddha Nair Nov 08, 2021
Between Wounds and Folds on view at Smack Mellon New York initiates a difficult conversation around meat and global warming.
by Shraddha Nair Oct 03, 2021
New Zealand-based Katki talks about his diaspora, multi-faceted identity, and its translation into art as he prepares for his project to be presented at Colomboscope’s seventh edition.
by Dilpreet Bhullar May 13, 2021
New Mexico-based Katherine Hunt’s art practice involves textiles and fibre to create minimalistic artworks that have a meditative quality to them.
by Shraddha Nair Jul 07, 2020
Young Indian artist Sarah Naqvi talks about the limitations of labels, her exploration of media and her current work at the De Ateliers Residency in the Netherlands.
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