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Installation View Pietro Consagra and Marine Hugonnier at the Italian Cultural Institute. Courtesy of ARTUNER

The Italian Cultural Institute presents Pietro Consagra and Marine Hugonnier

January 31, 2018

MARRYING the post-modern with the contemporary in a cavalier examination of different perspectives, the Italian Cultural Institute and Artuner presented the second half of their series devoted to the post-war I...

Carved, Cast, and Constructed at Marlborough Fine Arts

Yasmin Bilbeisi

November 9, 2017

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

From Decimation to Reconstruction – Glass reviews Carved, Cast, and Constructed at Marlborough Fine Arts AS Britain carved a new identity for itself, cast aspersions on its former ideologies, and constructed...

Glass reviews Frieze Masters 2017

Yasmin Bilbeisi

October 12, 2017

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

DISTANT from Frieze London in proximity and tone is its six year old “sibling”, Frieze Masters. The 15-minute walk seemed much longer after hopping from booth to booth in the contemporary art marquee (Frieze Lo...

Glass reviews multi-media artist Zhuang Hong Yi’s latest show Raw at Unit London

Yasmin Bilbeisi

April 13, 2017

Art, Feature

ONE MAY fear that a gallery presenting a show of the same name, by the same artist, and in the same space may have overcooked an idea. For the second time since opening their flagship space on Wardour Street,...

From Breakdown to Breakthrough – Paula Rego works on paper on show in London

Yasmin Bilbeisi

March 30, 2017

Art, Culture, Feature

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SOMETIMES a breakdown is actually a breakthrough, as evidenced by Dame Paula Rego in her son Nick Willing’s groundbreaking documentary Secrets and Stories. Willing made the film after his mother finally began t...

Happily Whenever After – Glass previews the documentary, Paula Rego: Secrets and Stories

Yasmin Bilbeisi

March 25, 2017

Art, Culture, Feature

ONCE upon a time, there was an artist who turned to fairytales and folklore for inspiration when painting. Such stories are the basis for most of the work in Dame Paula Rego’s 60-year-long outre oeuvre. Working...

LFW AW17: Haluminous Presentation

Yasmin Bilbeisi

February 21, 2017

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

HALUMINOUS made most the most of the numinous backdrop of the Freemason’s HQ, its Grand Lodge on Queen Street by staging a presentation that was not only darkly artistic but mimicked the Dark Arts. Halu...

LFW AW17: Annderstand

Yasmin Bilbeisi

February 20, 2017

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

ROMANTIC Revolution was the theme of Annderstand’s second Fashion Scout show for LFW AW17. Chinese-born Ge Yu, who founded the label in 2015, combined ’90s London street style with influences from rock music fo...

LFW AW17: Miló Maria

Yasmin Bilbeisi

February 19, 2017

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

CONTRADICTION is the cornerstone of Miló Maria’s design ethos. In her presentation at LFW AW17, the designer galvanised her love for paradoxes. Showcasing her third collection in an ‘80s-style office, the moder...

Glass interviews up-and-coming designer Michaela Frankova

Yasmin Bilbeisi

January 4, 2017

Fashion, Feature

FROM her atelier in north London, the softly spoken but loudly expressive Michaela Frankova spins fairytales in fabric for a diverse clientele that includes everyone from fashion bloggers to celebrities. One wo...

Front Page. Conceptual Artist Pandemonia paps back at the Lauren Baker Preview

Glass reviews Lauren Baker’s solo show at M&C Saatchi, London

Yasmin Bilbeisi

September 29, 2016

Art, Feature

JUST as the off switch could be close to being hit, the trend for neon continues. Ne-on manages to keep-on. There seems a strong divide between those who love neon and those who hate it, making it the veritable...

A transfusion of taste – Glass meets British menswear brand Blood Brother

Yasmin Bilbeisi

August 3, 2016

Fashion, Feature

DURING the recent LC:M, Aldwych Station in London received a transfusion of taste from nascent menswear label, Blood Brother. Tube stations are not the only thing to be given the kiss of life by the appropriate...

Front Cover. Farad Moshiri's Home Sweet Home 2008, which is compromised of 314 knives on canvas mounted on MDF

Glass visits the Soho-based gallery Unit London

Yasmin Bilbeisi

July 20, 2016

Art, Feature

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LOOMING over a busy red carpet on a pavement in Soho is Farhad Moshiri’s sculptural homage to needlepoint totsches. This simultaneously macabre and kitsch piece of art, made by Moshiri using knives (and a curso...

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OH BOY! London-based youth fashion brand BOY London celebrates its 40th year

Yasmin Bilbeisi

June 21, 2016

Fashion, Feature

RATHER than fade into obsolescence as so many edgy labels do after a few decades, youth fashion brand BOY London made the mature transition from urban to urbane with the launch of a premium line collection to c...

Botticelli Reimagined at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Kensington Hotel

Yasmin Bilbeisi

June 17, 2016

Art, Feature

IN conjunction with the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Kensington Hotel is offering groups of people the chance to experience their own personal art renaissance. Until July 03, 2016, patrons can merge a visit ...

Room for Play – Glass reviews Playroom a curatorial project by Olga MacKenzie and Sasha Gallitzine

Yasmin Bilbeisi

April 6, 2016

Avant Art, Feature

THE IKEA catalogue has a circulation double of the Bible. Thus it is not so surprising that the a representative from the company said the following at the Guardian Sustainable Business Debate, “If we look on a...

Colourful Language – The Banners by Gilbert and George opens at White Cube, London

Yasmin Bilbeisi

November 24, 2015

Art, Culture

The 48-year-long, two-man uprising known as Gilbert and George rages on, introducing 30 pieces known collectively as The Banners to White Cube, the gallery which has represented them since 2000. The artists...

U-biquitous

Yasmin Bilbeisi

October 21, 2015

Art, Culture, Feature

“Hello U” beckons the text on the frontage of Unit London’s nascent gallery space. Opening last month, with a lively solo show of work by Zhuang Hong Yi. The energetic opening was an appropriate complement t...

A private view

Yasmin Bilbeisi

September 18, 2015

Avant Art, Fashion Shows, Feature

The viewer becomes voyeur at Richard Saltoun’s Temptations of Pierre Molinier Featuring over 50 of the artist’s works created from 1952 onwards, the exhibition is mostly comprised of Molinier’s home develo...

The great Wall

Yasmin Bilbeisi

August 28, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Photography

Jeff Wall exhibitions can feel rather mo re like going to the cinema than to a gallery. Wall’s large scale photographic tableaux, famously displayed on huge light boxes, have their own veritable theatre, a bac...

Burning bright

Yasmin Bilbeisi

August 26, 2015

Avant Art, Books, Feature, Photography

A new members’ club in the West End has eclipsed the strobe lights, street lights, and twinkling taxi signs to earn the distinction of its name – Lights of Soho (LoS). LoS runs on a principle of inclusivity ra...

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