•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 05, 2025
Rajiv Menon of Los Angeles-based gallery Rajiv Menon Contemporary stages a showcase at the City Palace in Jaipur, dwelling on how the Indian diaspora contends with cultural identity.
by Jincy Iype Jul 25, 2025
Published by Routledge, the book redraws the built environment through satire, storytelling and speculative drawing – a reminder that architecture is, first and always, a fiction.
by Aarthi Mohan Jul 25, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, Darrius Medina and TJ Hoover talk about designing immersive stages that shape the emotion and movement of a live show.
by Alice Godwin Jul 17, 2025
An exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary explores how art underlines the growing enmeshment of humans and robots.
by Aarthi Mohan Jul 16, 2025
Through 23 spatial and urban interventions, the tenth edition of this annual architecture festival brought the discipline closer to the rhythms of daily life.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 22, 2025
STIR interviews the principal of People’s Architecture Office, a Chinese architecture studio, about their conception of a system for revitalisation through prefabrication.
by Aarthi Mohan May 19, 2025
The cemetery's landscape is transformed with the addition of the towering mausoleum, a 100 feet-tall landmark merging functionality, history and sustainability for a modern era.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 15, 2025
Set within a historical Italian palazzo, six spatial designs present a rich, layered and well-curated assemblage of furniture, lighting, art and decorative objects.
by Manu Sharma Mar 04, 2025
In Defense of Nature presents the German artist’s work and environmental advocacy, connecting to a reforestation effort.
by Tabish Khan Dec 25, 2024
Are sport, music and film replacing religion? Paul Pfeiffer interrogates this notion through film, sculpture, sound and installations in this major survey exhibition.
by STIRworld Dec 16, 2024
Refik Anadol’s visionary museum seeks to redefine the intersection of technology and creativity, pushing the boundaries of how we experience art and our shared environment.
by Sunena V Maju Dec 05, 2024
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion, celebrating the life and work of the Belgian fashion designer, makes its North American debut at the Skirball Cultural Center.
by Manu Sharma Dec 03, 2024
Curator Akansha Rastogi discusses the layered themes of The Elemental You, stretching from the personal to the environmental.
by 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.
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 Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 30, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky interviews Michael Maltzan whose dynamically unfolding buildings serve as a medium between a community and an individual.
by Manu Sharma Aug 23, 2024
In an interview with STIR, the co-authors Philip Glahn and Cary Levine discuss the continued relevance of the ambitious and understudied art collective.
by Samta Nadeem Aug 23, 2024
For the 20th Edinburgh Art Festival, X Muse paves the way for contemplations on art through works by El Anatsui, Hayley Barker, Charles Jencks and Cornelia Parker among others.
by Manu Sharma Jul 24, 2024
On the eve of the Paris 2024, we look at the Olympic athletes who have excelled in both art and sport. Here are STIR’s top picks.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Jun 01, 2024
Playing well into the quintessential Los Angeles trope of unassuming exteriors that conceal a completely different world within is the 8th Street Warehouse designed by Sheft Farrace.
by Rhea Mathur Mar 18, 2024
Bettina Korek, Director of the Serpentine Gallery, speaks to STIR on Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. and the provocative visual language of Barbara Kruger.
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 17, 2024
Embark on a transcendent journey as Danish band WhoMadeWho breaks free from musical boundaries, weaving a tapestry of architecture, visuals and sonic wonders.
by Zohra Khan Jan 13, 2024
A heady gush of warmth, colours, and textures takes centre stage at the West Hollywood fashion retail destination designed by Kelly Wearstler.
by Aarthi Mohan Nov 25, 2023
Discover the soul of Los Angeles-based studio GRAFT’s architectural manifesto at the Taste is the Lack of Appetite exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin.
by Daria Kravchuk Sep 12, 2023
The artistic duo of David Allen Burns and Austin Young from Fallen Fruit, who work with fruit trees, public space, and museum archives, dives into the symbolics of fruits.
by Zohra Khan Aug 31, 2023
The pro-bono project by NBBJ, the Nickerson Gardens Playground, is a playmaze for children and adults within the largest public housing located west of Mississippi.
by Urvi Kothari Aug 24, 2023
Suchitra Mattai's In the absence of power. In the presence of love celebrates women of colour and re-imagine histories with large-scale textile installations at Roberts Projects.
by Aarthi Mohan Aug 22, 2023
In a conversation with STIR, LA-based enFOLD Collective explores the interplay of community, design and primordial matter in the Black — Still installation.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 20, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Michael Rotondi of RoTo Architects who believes that an identity crisis in the formative years of his generation made architects inventive.
by Divya Menon May 28, 2023
Visual Artist Felipe Pantone lay bares the dichotomies of life through the interplay of imagination and art at Control Gallery, Los Angeles.
by Vatsala Sethi May 21, 2023
Investigating Tokyo Gendai 2023, a contemporary art event at Pacifico Yokohama, featuring a lineup of 79 galleries from Japan, the Asia Pacific region, and around the world.
by Dilpreet Bhullar May 07, 2023
The exhibition Strings of Desire at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles showcases the works of 13 artists who put the art of embroidery at the centre of their multimedia works.
by Sukanya Deb May 06, 2023
If It Holds It Grows at Hostler Burrows, brings together Zimra Beiner's practice in conversation with the Los Angeles landscape through colour, artifice, and human intervention.
by Daria Kravchuk Apr 25, 2023
Creating a novel experience through the interplay of water, light, and sound at Milan Design Week 2023, the collaboration explored our connection with water.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Apr 06, 2023
Writing Skiapod by Mark Manders at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, is about the reimagination of the architectural space to disturb the inherent value of fiction and reality.
by STIRworld Mar 16, 2023
Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley, the first women designer duo to produce the Academy Awards set, emphasised nostalgia and love for films, through cinema hall iconography.
by Sunena V Maju Feb 21, 2023
The handmade ceramic decanter for Eight Reserve by 818 Tequila, produced by local artisans in Pachuca, Mexico, aims to symbolise Kendall Jenner's brand’s identity through bottle design.
by Sukanya Deb Feb 01, 2023
The Japanese furniture and interior designer challenged the distinction between art and design through experimentation and play around material and form, with a hint of absurdity.
by Shraddha Nair Jan 25, 2023
Damjan Jovanovic, an educator, architect and game designer, explored world-building through co-operative player dynamics to imagine integrated, optimistic futures.
by STIRworld Jan 14, 2023
With STIR as a media partner, winners of the International Design Awards' 16th edition were announced in its architectural, interior, fashion, product, and graphic design categories.
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