Art - The Glass Magazine

August 18, 2014

Hauser & Wirth will present Monika Sosnowska’s Tower, a sculpture alluding to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s structures and the International Style, next month in NYC, Polish-born Sosnowska is known for her ...

Inaugural edition of Photo Shanghai to launch this September

August 18, 2014

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Earlier this year, the World Photography Organisation and Montgomery announced that the first international art fair dedicated to photography in China will launch this autumn. The inaugural edition of Photo Sha...

After Dark – winning robots at Tate Britain

Xenia Founta

August 15, 2014

Tate Britain announced this week After Dark, the winning project of the IK Prize 2014, a newly annual prize which aims to transform digital innovative ideas into new ways of discovering art and widens its audie...

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts open new hotel in Tianjin, China

Amanda Bernstein

August 15, 2014

Asia, Avant Art, China, News, Travel

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has opened its 85th hotel in China’s largest northern port city, Tianjin. The 302-room Shangri-La sits on the bank of the Haihe River in the new Hedong District. Tianjin is a bustl...

The unflinching lens – monochromatic memories

Peter Yeoh

August 15, 2014

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, Photography

The Glass Archive presents the second in a special three-part series – The unflinching lens Part three: Monochromatic memories Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,  three eminent Japanese post...

Chloé launch AW14 ad campaign

Livia Feltham

August 13, 2014

advert, Culture of Commerce, Fashion, Feature, Glass Models, News, Photography

It’s everyone’s favourite fashion fairy-tale, a “sisters are doing it for themselves” road trip in the seminal spirit of Thelma and Louise, so now it’s everyone’s time to embrace it, turned out in Chloé’s recen...

Frances Aviva Blane - Untitled 1: 34x34 cm, pastel on fabriano paper

Three Bs in Belgium – Glass previews the Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon and Francis Aviva Blane show at the De Queeste Art gallery

August 12, 2014

Art, Feature

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This month, De Queeste Art, Belgium, will present three unique exhibitions featuring the work of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Francis Bacon (1909-1992), and contemporary British artist Frances Aviva Blane. ...

A walk through British Art – Pre-Raphaelites return to Tate Britain

Xenia Founta

August 11, 2014

John Everett Millais’s Ophelia has returned this week to Tate Britain this week, after being included in a two-year international tour interacting in different contexts and cultures which attracted an audience ...

The unflinching lens – Bodyscapes

Peter Yeoh

August 8, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Feature

The Glass Archive presents the second in a special three-part series – The unflinching lens Part two Bodyscapes Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,  three eminent Japanese post-war photographers...

Fine print

Lisa Kim

August 7, 2014

Avant Art

It’s clear from London artist Aida Wilde’s work that she has a great love of animals big and small but a closer look at her latest series Habros reveals darker themes like issues of colonialism, t...

Second Floor by Sam Taylor-Johnson at Saatchi Gallery

Livia Feltham

August 5, 2014

For a lot of fashion history buffs out there time travel is one of those wildest of dreams that we’d all love to become a reality. At the Saatchi Gallery in just over a month’s time, it is becoming a reality, t...

63rd-77th Steps

Cristina Bodgan

August 5, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Last summer, Glass explored the young contemporary art scene in Bari, Puglia. We discovered that the fresh city by the sea was not only host to many young commercial galleries, such as unconventional curato...

Luxembourg and Dayan: That Obscure Object of Desire

August 4, 2014

Luxembourg and Dayan: That Obscure Object of Desire This August, Luxembourg and Dayan will present That Obscure Object of Desire. Titled after Luis Buñuel’s 1977 film, in which the protagonist’s lust for an ...

Digital art platform Curiator updates app

August 4, 2014

Curiator, an online platform to discover, share and collect art, has grown rapidly since its inception. Only three months after its launch to the public and two months after the launch of its mobile app, Curiat...

Tate announces 2015 highlights

Xenia Founta

August 4, 2014

The highlights of the Tate’ s2015 exhibition programme has been announced. Among them are retrospectives of work by groundbreaking sculptors Alexander Calder and Barbara Hepworth, alongside masterpieces by pro...

An unrestrained eye

Peter Yeoh

August 1, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Culture, Feature

The Glass Archive presents a special three-part series – The unflinching lens Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,  three eminent Japanese post-war photographers, have captured radical views of a c...

Art and the post-post-modern self

Stephanie Clair

July 29, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Entering the exhibition, Don’t You Know Who I Am?, one is immediately faced with an extensive arrangement of mis-matched chairs from various eras and in various styles. Abstract, slightly confusin...

Hypothesis for an Exhibition. Giulio Paolini at Dominique Lévy, New York

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

July 28, 2014

Avant Art, Culture

The title Hypothesis for an Exhibition is a clear reference to Paolini’s 1963 work Ipotesi Per Una Mostra, which Giulio Paolini produced for his first exhibition for La Tortuga gallery in Rome but remained unre...

Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

July 28, 2014