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Camden Art Centre present exhibitions by Walter Price and Olga Belema

April 28, 2021

AS GALLERIES reopen and we move closer to summer, Camden Art Centre will exhibit Pearl Lines by Walter Price and Olga Balema’s Computer, physical exhibitions that speak to the joy of in-person gallery visiting....

Glass interviews artist Alina Zamanova

Connie de Pelet

December 3, 2020

Art, Avant Art, Exhibitions, Feature

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ALINA Zamanova’s work exists at an apex of ugliness and beauty. She paints high-fashion abstractions of beautiful women: figures contorted into alien forms, swollen and skinny at once. Her practice is rooted in...

Glass previews Fragmented – an exhibition at Zuleika Gallery, London

Connie de Pelet

October 16, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, News

IN THE midst of the divisions and reinterpretations demanded by the experience of living through Covid-19, Zukleika Gallery presents an exhibition of the works made by abstract painter Frances Aviva Blane and a...

Artist Luckylefthand decorates the Louis Vuitton Headquarters

Imogen Clark

May 7, 2020

Fashion, News

A CENTURY after the phrase “Let's made the street a happy place” was spoken by Gaston-Louis Vuitton, artist Luckylefthand was commissioned to decorate the brand's headquarters in Paris. The fresco is made up o...

Glass reviews new book of paintings, FAB, by British artist Frances Aviva Blane

Jane Weston

November 13, 2019

Art, Feature

I’M always excited when I know I’m going to be seeing Frances Blane’s work. I never know what to expect. This time I’m looking at her new book FAB. which is published to accompany her upcoming shows in Be...

Fondation Louis Vuitton announces its programme of exhibitions for 2018

Tom Halford

March 13, 2018

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

SINCE opening in 2014, Fondation Louis Vuitton has hosted a number of modern art exhibitions. Most recently, the critically acclaimed Being Modern: MoMA in Paris finished earlier this month, after being open to...

Benefit Supervisor Sleeping, 2017, corten steel, LCD screens, moving image, 132 x 265 x 80 cm by Charlotte Colbert

Glass views Benefit Supervisor Sleeping by Charlotte Colbert

Rachel McCormack

January 26, 2018

Art, Exhibitions, Feature, Photography

LONDON gallery Unit9 presents Benefit Supervisor Sleeping, a new large-scale video sculpture by fine art photographer and filmmaker Charlotte Colbert. The subject is Sue Tilley, Lucian Freud’s famed muse who sa...

The National Portrait Gallery presents Murillo: The Self Portraits

Faye Leung

January 17, 2018

Art, Exhibitions, News

THE National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting the work of celebrated Spanish Golden Age artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, amongst the exhibition are the only two existing self portraits which will be shown togeth...

Modigliani show opens at Tate Modern, London

Allie Nawrat

November 23, 2017

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

THE Tate Modern is opening an exhibition of the largest collection of Amadeo Modigliani’s work ever shown in the UK. Modigliani is known for his paintings, the show also includes his rarely seen experiments wi...

Van Gogh Museum present works by Zeng Fanzhi inspired by Van Gogh’s self-portraits

Allie Nawrat

October 25, 2017

Art, Exhibitions, News

ZENG Fanzhi, a well-renowned contemporary Chinese artist who is an admirer of Vincent Van Gogh, has opened a new exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Zeng Fanzhi and Axel Rüger, Director of the Van ...

LFW SS17: Paula Knorr

Sara Hesikova

September 20, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

FOR Paula Knorr, a newcomer to LFW supported by Topshop’s Newgen scheme for young designers, the female body is a canvas to draw upon. Literally. Her SS17 collection, presented at the ICA, was full of pieces fe...

The Toxic Sublime at White Cube, London

Thomas Allen

June 24, 2015

Avant Art, News

It’s complicated, our relationship with the natural world. And Marc Quinn has found inspiration in that complexity for his latest exhibition with White Cube, The Toxic Sublime. The first of the two bodies of...

Blow Up at Parafin Gallery, London

Thomas Allen

June 19, 2015

Avant Art, News

Throughout July and August, Parafin gallery are holding the aptly named exhibition, Blow Up. In its exploration of the landscape of contemporary painting, the show identifies the relationship between painting, ...

Samia Halaby Solo Exhibition at Ayyam Gallery

Thomas Allen

May 18, 2015

Avant Art, News

A solo exhibition of seminal works by the pioneering abstract painter, Samia Halaby, is being held in London at Ayyam Gallery. The show, Painting from the Sixties and Seventies, takes a selection from a diverse...

Kazuo & Fujiko Shiraga at Fergus McCafferey New York

Louise Lui

April 30, 2015

Avant Art, News

Kazuo Shiraga has become one of the most prominent members of the Gutai group and a highly successful artist in his own right. However, less commonly explored is the role his wife Fujiko played in his practice ...

Hayv Kahraman exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York – How Iraqi Are You?

Louise Lui

March 27, 2015

Avant Art, News

This spring, Jack Shainman Gallery presents How Iraqi Are You?, an exhibition of large scale linen paintings by Hayv Kahraman. This new series is based aesthetically on medieval Iraqi illuminated manuscripts, n...

Shiraga’s “foot paintings” exhibited at Mnuchin Gallery

Louise Lui

March 2, 2015

Avant Art, News

Gutai artists, particularly Kazuo Shiraga, have been all over the art gallery world this year. Mnuchin Gallery jumps on this bandwagon with its latest exhibition of major paintings by Shiraga, tracing the evolu...

Calme: Qiu Shihua at Galerie Karsten Greve

Louise Lui

January 6, 2015

Avant Art, News

Galerie Karsten Greve and artist Qiu Shihua will present Calme, Qiu’s first solo exhibition in France in ten years. The exhibition will show a selection of his oil paintings made between 2010 and 2014, which al...

Gagosian Hong Kong presents Jeff Koons’ first major solo exhibition in Asia

Louise Lui

November 26, 2014

Avant Art, News

Gagosian Hong Kong is presenting Hulk Elvis, Jeff Koons’ first major solo exhibition in Asia. Koons is known for his diverse array of sources, ranging from comic book characters and children’s art to figures fr...

Stuart Semple: Anxiety Generation at Mayfair’s Delahunty

Louise Lui

November 10, 2014

Avant Art, News

British artist Stuart Semple will exhibit Anxiety Generation at the Delahunty, a new gallery in Mayfair, London. Following a period of immersive and installation work made primarily with mixed media, Semple ret...

Emo Verkerk: new show at the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Holland

Louise Lui

November 7, 2014

Avant Art, News

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will present an exhibition of 90 paintings and sculptures, entitled Love Me or Leave Me by Dutch artist Emo Verkerk, one of the most important artists working in the Netherlands in recen...

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