•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Srishti Ojha Jun 16, 2026
In Predicting History: Testing Translation at the 61st Venice Biennale, the black British artist depicts the strategies marginalised people must employ to create belonging.
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 Sunena V Maju Feb 12, 2026
At New York’s Park Avenue Armory, gleaming silver, Tiffany glass and framed constitutional prints quietly reveal the comforts and contradictions of elite collecting.
by Avani Tandon Vieira Feb 07, 2026
The sixth edition of Artizon Museum’s Jam Session presented a fluid understanding of place and past.
by Srishti Ojha, Harshali Pagare Jan 22, 2026
STIR speaks with the Ghanaian artist on his large-scale installation, Parliament of Ghosts, at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025 and the colonial histories of everyday materials.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 11, 2025
Amid several controversies surrounding the UN's annual COP held in Belém this year, a critical exploration of the delegation’s climate action objectives is tantamount.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 27, 2025
Guillermo del Toro’s much-anticipated ‘Frankenstein’ adaptation and the resulting online discussion lead to an exploration of the parable’s relevance in contemporary society.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 07, 2025
The Word for World, an exhibition and book cartographically charting the great American writer's fictional terrains, encourages readers to pay attention to the possibilities of fiction.
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 Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 27, 2025
A solo exhibition at Haus for Media Art Oldenburg presents Castelblanco's decade-long research, revealing the interdependencies of the natural world and indigenous communities in the Amazon.
by Paola Malavassi Aug 04, 2025
A powerful journey through decades of groundbreaking art by the Canadian artist, Ghostlight is a timely reminder that the past shapes the present.
by Ayesha Adonais Jul 19, 2025
STIR speaks to Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler on their Silver Lion-winning 'large scale visual manifesto' traversing history, colonialism, militarisation and technology.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 10, 2025
At Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano, the Algerian architect conceives a series of workshops that hope to reveal the persisting effects of colonial occupation in urban environments.
by Srishti Ojha Jul 04, 2025
KADIST and ILHAM present 27 artists and collectives who reflect on the violent setting of the plantation and its role as a model for Western capitalism.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 27, 2025
The Nigerian architect speaks to STIR about her project at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, touching on informality and resourcefulness as an alternative to hyperconsumerism.
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 Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 17, 2025
Hassanain’s solo exhibition at Kunstinstituut Melly highlights the central role of infrastructure and temporality in affecting slow violence on indigenous communities in Sudan.
by Srishti Ojha Jun 11, 2025
You Breathe Differently Under the Weight. Debt and Credit reveals how our abstract, financial view of debt conceals its impact on everyday life and politics.
by Anushka Sharma Jun 02, 2025
In her first solo museum show in China, the Waanyi artist from Australia reflects on land, water and ancestral memory, mapping insidious ecological loss.
by Srishti Ojha May 30, 2025
The British artist’s new exhibition, Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles, at Newcastle Contemporary Art highlights the political power of presence.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 16, 2025
STIR speaks to Stefano Boeri, president of the institution, on its 24th International Exhibition, elaborating on marginalised perspectives and alternative design strategies.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 24, 2025
This travelling exhibition, on view at Travancore Palace, presents works by artists who centre feminism to speak out against injustices against minority communities.
by Manu Sharma Feb 28, 2025
STIR in conversation with the director of the Amsterdam museum about its efforts to build an inclusive programme and collection.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 14, 2025
At India Art Fair 2025, speakers like Naomi Beckwith, Manuel Rabaté and Sangita Jindal discussed building access and community in the arts,
by Lee Daehyung Feb 05, 2025
The Hawaiian archipelago becomes a site for encounters between Korean and Hawaiian communities in this presentation at the Seoul Museum of Art.
by Diana Baldon Jan 27, 2025
This transdisciplinary exhibition explores humanity’s urgent need for oceanic reflection.
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 Alakananda Nag Jan 14, 2025
Between remembering and forgetting, the Jhaveri sisters’ dynamic body of work spans decades of dance history. How might it be best archived?
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 23, 2024
STIR lists the events, projects and exhibitions that looked beyond occidental boundaries to reveal and unravel otherwise unknown or little explored stories of modernity’s legacy.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 19, 2024
The art exhibition on view at the Wellcome Collection in London shows the relationship between labour conditions, workers’ health and labour rights through artworks and installations.
by Manu Sharma Dec 17, 2024
STIRred 2024: Creative responses to war and conflict reflected contemporary realities in 2024, as STIR’s archive demonstrates.
by Melissa Chemam Dec 04, 2024
With this exhibition examining the “myth of England as a nation”, combining mixed media, Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane offer a lens to investigate cultural landscapes.
by Ranjana Dave Nov 29, 2024
MANZAR: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today surveys over eight decades of creative practice in an exhibition at the National Museum of Qatar in Doha.
by Kate Meadows Nov 21, 2024
Past as Prologue does more than celebrate The National Academy of Design’s 200th anniversary: it reckons with its origins in American colonialism.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 11, 2024
STIR speaks with Nikolaus Hirsch, artistic director of the museum in Belgium, on the current exhibition that questions how the origins of architecture were conceived.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 09, 2024
An ongoing exhibition at the art museum in Eindhoven presents trans-local stories and sustainable practices around soil and our diverse and complex relationships with it.
by Maanav Jalan Oct 30, 2024
Congolese photographer and artist Sammy Baloji presents ways of looking beyond photography in a major solo exhibition at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art.
by Katie Treggiden Oct 29, 2024
This column explores the question "Can craft save the world?” with a proposed alternative to the ‘design thinking’ model – but there’s a catch, the alternative is a work in progress.
by Diana Baldon Oct 25, 2024
Three recent exhibitions in Copenhagen unpack contemporary art's take on the ethical, social and political dimensions of AI.
by Niren Tolsi Oct 22, 2024
The Other Side of Now reckons with complex transcontinental colonial histories, acknowledging the intergenerational nature of violence.
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