From Architecture, SCANning Art
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
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
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
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
“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
Organised in collaboration with the newly established Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Gagosian Gallery will present Helen Frankenthaler—Composing with Colour: Paintings 1962-1963. Curated by John Elderfield, t...
Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District: DECADE
Breaking free from the constraints of a traditional performance venue, Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) has launched digital exhibition DECADE. A cross-disciplinary, collaborative, a...
Fishwives and knitted herrings
Swan House is classic Hastings. Go past the Tourist Information centre and Iceland, keep walking to Argos and George Street, then climb up some narrow, cobbled steps to Hill Street. Swan House is ad...
Monika Sosnowska’s Tower on view at Hauser & Wirth
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
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
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
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
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...
A walk through British Art – Pre-Raphaelites return to Tate Britain
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...