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Review: Tales of the Grim Sleeper by Nick Broomfield

February 4, 2015

Lonnie Franklin, Jr. himself There is a house in South Central, Los Angeles, whose inner walls and back yard have seen an unspeakable amount of pain, horror, and murder. It’s currently being occupied by a bu...

Björk, A Retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Emily Rae Pellerin

February 3, 2015

America, Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Film, New York, News, Travel

The Museum of Modern Art presents Björk, an eponymous retrospective dedicated to the mercurial singer, composer, and musician. Her work is an art in itself, one which spans genre and medium, transcending sensor...

Natural Histories at Gagosian Athens

Xenia Founta

February 3, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, News

Last Thursday, the opening of Natural Histories took place at Gagosian Athens, an inspirational exhibition of two painted bronze sculptures by Georg Baselitz and Mark Grotjahn. Although, the artists belong ...

Extra tickets released for Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Shiyu Tang

February 2, 2015

Culture, Fashion, Feature, News

The V&A’s spring headline exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty has now sold 30,000 advance tickets, online pre-bookable tickets sold out for the first five weekends of the exhibition. This has bro...

Celebrating Harlem, NYC

Emily Rae Pellerin

February 2, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, Don't Miss: Theatre, New York, News, Travel

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The culture, music, art, people, food, and spirited overall vibe of uptown New York City’s Harlem neighbourhood are beckoning the attentions and affections of not only New Yorkers, but of the rest of the world....

The art of patience – Glass reviews Basil Twist’s stunning craftsmanship and puppet-poetry, Dogugaeshi at The Barbican

Lilian Pizzichini

February 2, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

The art of patience – Glass reviews Basil Twist’s stunning craftsmanship and puppet-poetry, Dogugaeshi at The Barbican Maybe it is something to do with the lure of television: as 21st-century westerners, we ...

Paris Couture Spring 2015: Zuhair Murad

Anna Coughlan

February 1, 2015

Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

The hills are alive with the looks of spring with Zuhair Murad’s couture collection – each look that paraded down the runway cascaded across the models like liquid with its flowing designs. Zuhair ha...

Real fortitude

Becky Zanker

January 29, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

British actor Nicholas Pinnock has an impressively eclectic list of credits to his name. In the 1990s, he appeared in UK TV stalwarts Grange Hill, EastEnders, The Bill and Casualty, but he’s since starred i...

Haute Couture Spring 2015: Valentino

Xenia Founta

January 29, 2015

Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Glass Models, News

One word can describe Maison Valentino haute couture SS15, the aristocratic elegance. The show was an amalgamation of delicate, one-of-a kind impalpable fabrics, and beautifully tailored finishes. Resurrecti...

Crime and drama – Glass talks whodunnits with actor Gwilym Lee

Natalie Egling

January 27, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Television, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

What makes Britain, Britain? Bacon butties, a cuppa and roast dinners – certainly – but whodunits are my British institution of choice, and none so more than Midsomer Murders and its eerie theremin-based theme ...

Eastern promise – Glass uncovers the secrets of a modern hero, the pioneering visionary Sun Yat Sen

Glass Archive

January 23, 2015

China, Culture, Feature

Eastern promise – Glass uncovers the secrets of a modern hero, the pioneering visionary Sun Yat Sen Bold, audacious and indefatigable, Sun Yat Sen was the pioneering visionary who laid the first stones of mo...

Making history

Becky Zanker

January 20, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

She might have been born in 1980s Kent, but Charity Wakefield has lived in numerous time periods. Most recently, she’s appeared as Mary Boleyn in Peter Kosminsky’s highly anticipated Wolf Hall – that’s...

The New Musuem’s Chris Ofili: Night and Day is extended

Emily Rae Pellerin

January 19, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, News

Chris Ofili’s oeuvre, in exhibition at the New Gallery in New York City, has been extended for a run until February 1. Last week, Ofili impromptu and unannounced arrived to the New Gallery’s lobby, making pins,...

Harmony Korine traverses boundaries of medium with exhibitions at Gagosian and St Barth’s Eden Rock

Emily Rae Pellerin

January 15, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Film, News, Travel

He is a famously raw filmmaker with a renown for skank and grit, for non-convention, for cinéma-vérité, for deep glimpses into the various milieus of youthdom. He is not-so-famously a fine artist, photographer ...

Synthesising modern desires

Stephanie Clair

January 15, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, Feature

Somerset. Long known for farming, hippy sub-cultures and festival, Glastonbury has started a transformation into a stylish retreat where visitors drink quality wine, eat well and see international art. Glass ch...

Ahead of the curve: New China from China at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Xenia Founta

January 14, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, News

This winter the exhibition Ahead of the Curve: New China from China, an exhibition of contemporary ceramics and glass created by 20 Chinese artists, comes to Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. ...

In the bleak mid-winter – Ian Bostridge sings Winterreise at the Barbican

Lilian Pizzichini

January 14, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

In the bleak mid-winter – Ian Bostridge sings Winterreise at the Barbican When Schubert first played his new cycle of “spine-chilling” songs to his friends, they hated it. The cycle, Winterreise, shocked the...

A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche

Nicola Kavanagh

January 12, 2015

Culture, Europe, Feature, Paris, Travel

A little out of the ordinary – Glass stays at L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche The charming and petite L’Hotel on Paris’s Rive Gauche (Left Bank) is one of the last vestiges of a bohemian and artistic society ...

Miu Miu announces SS 2015 Campaign

Sara Hesikova

January 7, 2015

Don't Miss: Film, News

The latest Miu Miu‘s advertising campaign for SS15 has been released. The campaign was shot in New York by photographer Steven Meisel and features three young rising screen stars – Mia Goth who appeared in Lars...

Relaxing in Rio – Where to peacefully bed down and eat in a manic city of noisy fun

Sean Sheehan

January 5, 2015

America, Culture, Dining, Feature, South America, Travel

Relaxing in Rio – Where to peacefully bed down and eat in a manic city of noisy fun It is a truth universally acknowledged, as Jane Austen might have put it, that anyone in search of an excessively good time...

Review: Fear of a Black Planet [Deluxe Edition] by Public Enemy

Arjun Sajip

January 3, 2015

Culture

Radio DJ: Yes, hello? Caller: Yes, I think that white liberals such as yourself have difficulty understanding that Chuck’s views represent the frustrations of the majority of black youth out there today – ...