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Crossing lines: Queer artists on borders, belonging and nationhood
Jun 12, 2026by Agnish Ray Jun 12, 2026
Queer and migrant identities intersecting at this year’s Venice Art Biennale highlight the normative exclusions of the nation-state.
How long can we continue performing neutrality under the spectre of war?
Jun 04, 2026by Debika Ray Jun 04, 2026
Protests, strikes and exclusions at the 2026 Venice Art Biennale are exposing the fragility of the international order on which the cultural world is built.
Locating Sufi sensibility amid fascism: Khaled Sabsabi’s Australia Pavilion
May 29, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 29, 2026
The multimedia artist’s two installations at the 61st Venice Biennale, conference of one’s self and khalil, ask audiences to imagine a self and world harmonious even in instability.
Just another brick in the wall: The search for a radical architecture
May 20, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 20, 2026
In the Building outside the box category of the BRICK AWARD 26, shortlisted designs take the ‘rigid’ form of the brick and give it new meaning for projects fluidly embedded in their contexts.
The 61st Venice Biennale as a sensuous joyride and a triumphant odyssey
May 18, 2026by Rosalyn D`Mello May 18, 2026
Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys brings the fringe to the fore, emphasising artistic resilience amid the apocalypse.
On retrospectives and canons: When does Denise Scott Brown get room at the top?
May 15, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 15, 2026
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, Denise Scott Brown: City, Street, House, focuses exclusively on the American architect’s influential contributions to urban analysis.
Staging Black and Indigenous feminist history at the Brazil Pavilion
May 15, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 15, 2026
Curator Diane Lima turns to the anti-colonial, feminist works of Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejão to explore stories of the formerly enslaved and colonised at the biennale.
Auntiescapes at Load Gallery asks: Can the hyperreal impact social reality?
May 08, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 08, 2026
In this solo exhibition, niceaunties (a.k.a Wenhui Lim) uses AI to imagine a speculative future for aunties, pushing the artistic and social possibilities of AI art.
Ceding freedoms: The danger and complicity of trying to make art apolitical
May 01, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 01, 2026
As fascism and censorship rise, for how long can the art world avoid politics? At the 61st Venice Biennale, ‘neutrality’ towards controversial pavilions sparks mass protest.
Who is public space for? Brick as commons and the making of shared ground
Apr 29, 2026by Jincy Iype Apr 29, 2026
In Sharing public spaces, the fourth category of BRICK AWARD 26, shortlisted projects reveal how brick shapes access, memory and collectivity across civic and cultural contexts.
Heiner Goebbels’ Landscape Plays faces an uphill battle to appeal to the public
Apr 22, 2026by Srishti Ojha Apr 22, 2026
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum’s solo exhibition of the German composer’s video works reveals the challenge of translating contemporary art for general audiences.
Nieuwe Instituut x STIR explore dialects as the language of design in Design Drafts 4
Apr 17, 2026by Zohra Khan Apr 17, 2026
With the theme Design Dialects, the open call invites submissions that write from within design’s dispersed grammars as sites of ongoing transformation.
The business of building and designing cohesive workspaces with the humble brick
Apr 08, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 08, 2026
The third category of the BRICK AWARD 26, Working together, weighs how brick is adopted and continually updated in commercial projects ranging from offices to industrial buildings.
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Elif Resitoglu and Gabriele Cavallaro on the evolution of the Isola Design Festival
Apr 13, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Apr 13, 2026
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