Art - The Glass Magazine

September 14, 2014

Joan Smalls rocked the fierce first look at Marc Jacobs’ SS15 RTW show — a stiffly structured forest teal dress, puckered at the waist with an ‘80s style, silver buckled belt. It was all very “G.I. Jane at the ...

NYFW SS15: J Mendel

September 13, 2014

J. Mendel unveiled a sleek, bold Spring collection designed by Giles Mendel in collaboration with artist Enoc Perez. Referencing Perez’s distinct paintings of architectural structures, an abstracted print of mu...

Frances Aviva Blane - Head 36: 33x33 cm, compressed charcoal and acrylic on fabriano paper

Draw you in – Glass talks to British artist Frances Aviva Blane about her current show Deconstruct

Caroline Simpson

September 11, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

LONDON-based British artist Frances Aviva Blane’s show Deconstruct is currently on display at De Queeste Art Kunstkamers, Belgium alongside work by Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois with each artist each havin...

NYFW SS15: Prabal Gurung

September 10, 2014

The beginning looks at Prabal Gurung’s SS15 show were very ‘sea froth’, with billowing waist sashes and anemone-like stitching exuding gently from sheer, gauzy garments and sheaths with billowing sleeves. The e...

NYFW SS15: MM6 Maison Martin Margiela

September 10, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

Japanese futurism meets Southwest classic ropers’ wear at the MM6 Maison Martin Margiela show. A silken jumpsuits belted with denim preceded looks more full-frontal cowgirl chic, like leather chaps with a linge...

NYFW SS15: Derek Lam

September 9, 2014

Patchwork leather, flared pants, wing collars, and mauve, teal, and retro brown call straightforward and direct attention to the 1970s, the era in which womenswear shamelessly and nonchalantly fell straight and...

NYFW SS15: HONOR by Giovanna Randall

September 9, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Glass Models, News

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New York City-based Designer Giovanna Randall and her Chief Creative Officer Rachel Fleit keep the whimsy alive at HONOR, as always presenting a fantastical and wholly feminine collection. For SS15, Randall’s c...

NYFW SS15: Carolina Herrera

September 8, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

We expect nothing less than the utmost classiness from Carolina Herrera, and, naturally, we received nothing but from her SS15 collection. Femininity abound, the collection spanned a variety of looks, such as b...

Like the wind

Glass Archive

September 5, 2014

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News, Photography

Multifaceted and renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle speaks to Glass about the inception of his remarkable career and a life devoted to his art form As Christopher Doyle’s Chinese name, Du Ke Feng...

Chris Ofili: Night and Day

September 4, 2014

This autumn, the New Museum will present Chris Ofili’s first major solo museum exhibition in the United States. Chris Ofili: Night and Day will occupy the museum’s three main galleries and showcase a diverse bo...

Painting ∞ at Dominique Lévy

September 1, 2014

In 1965, French-born Polish artist Roman Opalka (1931 – 2011) picked up a No. 0 brush in his Warsaw studio and painted the number “1” at the top left- hand corner of a canvas. This gesture marked the beginning ...

Sterling Ruby VIVIDS at Gagosian Gallery

August 27, 2014

Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong will present an exhibition of new spray paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby. Rendered in a fluorescent pink palette, VIVIDS reflects Ruby’s ruminations on the ever-cha...

From Architecture, SCANning Art

Christian Parreno

August 27, 2014

Avant Art, Feature, Glass Design

To scan is to glance and examine the particulars of an object or a condition. Yet it is also to scrutinise and observe sweepingly, as a large expanse. In summary, these are the actions and ambitions of Pedr...

First Look presented by New Museum and Rhizome

August 26, 2014

First Look, an ongoing series of digital projects by the New Museum, New York, will now be co-curated and co-presented by Rhizome, an internet arts organisation. First Look began in 2012 with Image Atlas by ...

When the  world says no

Glass Archive

August 22, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Culture, Feature

When Yoko Ono was a young girl living in Japan she witnessed the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The indescribable horror of the atomic bombs hitting the two cities and concluding WWII in 1945 will forev...

BMW Tate Live: Up Hill Down Hall, An indoor carnival

Xenia Founta

August 21, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

This weekend a new performance commission Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival takes place at Τate Modern. The commission is a collaboration in which contemporary artists engage with Carnival by translating th...

The image at breaking point

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

August 21, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Travel

“My body is the intention, my body is the event, my body is the result,” said Gunter Brus, co-founder with Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler of a new art movement called Vienna Actionism. A...

Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian Gallery

August 20, 2014