•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Bansari Paghdar Jun 12, 2026
by 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.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 04, 2026
The alphabet artist’s recent book details their six-year research and design project, which documented the type designs of various LGBTQIA+ activist groups as an act of preservation.
by 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.
by 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.
by Bansari Paghdar, Anmol Ahuja May 28, 2026
The solo exhibition staged at London’s Barbican Centre positions the speculative architect and filmmaker's fictions as imminent worlds rather than distant dreams and fears.
by 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.
by Rosalyn D`Mello May 18, 2026
Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys brings the fringe to the fore, emphasising artistic resilience amid the apocalypse.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by Bansari Paghdar May 07, 2026
Following Brutalist Japan, Paul Tulett’s new book focuses on the non-canonical styles of brutalism found in South Korea’s concrete architecture, ranging from 1960s to the 2020s.
by 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.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 13, 2026
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