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Through examples of Paris, Copenhagen and Madrid, Cristina Mateo investigates urban conditions where experience and innovation can coexist without cancelling each other out.
Cao Fei’s Swiss exhibition reimagines what an art gallery can (or should) be today
Jul 02, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jul 02, 2026
Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future transforms the Kunstmuseum Basel’s building into an immersive experience that is simultaneously virtual and real, futuristic and historic.
Backrooms: Tales of hauntings and disembodiments in junkspace
Jun 25, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 25, 2026
The recent A24 film, Backrooms, illuminates popular culture’s fascination with liminal spaces, and the disorientation we associate with their eerie affect.
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA: Controversy and the critique of unconventional art
Jun 19, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 19, 2026
The gallery presents the largest retrospective of the modern artist in the last 50 years, enlivening eternal debates about what ‘real art’ is for 21st-century audiences.
Michael Sorkin’s manifestos for radicality for People Who Cross Against the Light
Jun 19, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 19, 2026
Marking the first retrospective of the American architecture critic and designer’s work, People Cross Against the Light: Michael Sorkin’s New York insists on a new radicalism.
India Street Lettering explores a visual art that is always looked at, hardly ever seen
Jun 12, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 12, 2026
Typeface designer Pooja Saxena’s book is a journey across India’s streets, capturing over 300 handmade signs in various languages and scripts and some of their makers.
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.
Nat Pyper’s carrier bags of fugitive stories with A Queer Year of Love Letters
Jun 04, 2026by 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.
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.
On planetary speculation as shared cultural infrastructure: Liam Young's In Other Worlds
May 28, 2026by 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.
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.
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Max Milà Serra’s kinetic objects are engineered as invisible tools of perception
Jun 11, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 11, 2026
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