Caroline Simpson - The Glass Magazine

Winter 2014 issue of Glass magazine – issue 20 – Destiny available now

December 11, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, Glass Design, News, Travel

We are very pleased to announce that Glass Magazine issue 20, with the theme of Destiny, can now be found on newsstands and in shops across the world and is also available to order. Destiny is a perplexing a...

Glass films…Eva Herzigova x Glass Magazine by Piotr Krzymowski

Caroline Simpson

December 5, 2014

Glass TV, News

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The legendary supermodel and Glass cover star Eva Herzigova is impossibly beautiful. Here we take you exclusively behind the scenes of our shoot at the Mondrian with our own short film, directed by Piotr Krzymo...

Meanwhile Back In the Wick – new show opens

Caroline Simpson

November 12, 2014

Avant Art, News

Prompt Gallery presents its debut show Meanwhile Back In The Wick in what was Hackney Wick’s first exhibition space, Queens Yard, featuring the work of three Wick-based artists, Aida, John Atherton and OKO. Po...

Grande Dame will put her spell on you

Caroline Simpson

October 23, 2014

Avant Art, News

Creative tour de force Tiff McGinnis, aka Grande Dame, brings her multi-media spectacle to Ink-D Gallery, Brighton with her show My Voodoo On You – a psychedelic salon of sound, moving image, original art, limi...

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...

Requiem for Ophelia

Caroline Simpson

June 16, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Embodied by model Sui He, Shakespeare’s Ophelia appears like a distant memory in an experimental film by director Daniya Scheulova. Daniya Scheulova is a Russian filmmaker sharing her life and work between ...

Skullpture – death becomes them

Caroline Simpson

May 27, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

Established in 2013, by art director Louise Batey, who has worked for clients such as Jaeger and BMW and photographer and former make-up guru Gozra Lozano, whose clients include Alexander McQueen, Vivienne West...

Cracknrolla …

Caroline Simpson

May 7, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Glass is delighted to present the latest fashion film by Mitja Bozic. The Slovenian-born director says that the inspiration for Cracknrolla …were the graphic shapes found in this protected area on the coast of ...

HYSTERIA show of new work opens in Soho, London

Caroline Simpson

March 9, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, News

Opening next week in one of Glass Magazine’s favourite Soho haunts, the exquisite French patisserie Maison Bertaux, all-female art collective HYSTERIA show their latest collection of work alongside that of inte...

Dale Chihuly, Cerulean Cobalt Chandelier (detail), 2013

The incredible lightness of Dale Chihuly – A show by the unique American glass-artist opens in London

Caroline Simpson

February 18, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

A new exhibition by glass-artist Dale Chihuly has opened at Halcyon Gallery, London. Dale Chihuly: Beyond the Object sees the American artist respond to the interior architecture of the building – in ...

Just for now – Glass discovers more about the London-based Greek poet and musician Sitron Panopoulos

Caroline Simpson

January 8, 2014

Feature, Music

Poetry is a much abused and misunderstood medium. And it is a matter of some sadness, to me at least, that the stagnant pond that passes for London's poetry scene is in the main filled with soi-disant poets who...

Art company Beautiful Crime launches temporary concept store for art lovers

Caroline Simpson

December 1, 2013

Avant Art, Culture, News

Urban and contemporary London-based art company, Beautiful Crime has opened BCC, the Beautiful Crime Concept shop, in Covent Garden, London. The BCC store (and the first of its kind, the owners’ claim, in the ...

Exhibition of sculpture by Paul Rowbottom

Caroline Simpson

November 12, 2013

Avant Art, News

An exhibition of new work by British sculptor Paul Rowbottom opens this week. The show is entitled Forming Reality, a synthesis of Painting Ceramics & Sculpture and Rowbottom’s latest sculpture, Celtic Con...

From Green Thoughts (Peter de Rome, US 1970:71). Photo- BFI Stills

Another green world – Glass interviews film director Ethan Reed

Caroline Simpson

October 30, 2012

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

“GUERILLA film maker, pornographer, activist, provocateur”, cult director Peter de Rome, “the unsung hero of gay underground filmmaking”, has lead a life as cinematic as the films he was obsessed with as a chi...

Weird Dreams – Craig Bowers (left) and Doran Edwards (right)

Dream baby, dream – Glass meets Doran Edwards of the band Weird Dreams

Caroline Simpson

October 23, 2012

Feature

Father, O Father! What do we here In this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far. William Blake, The Land of Dreams Like the surrealist 1930s films of Hans Richter, the music of Do...

In living colour – Glass talks to artist Misha Milovanovich about her latest pop-inspired project

Caroline Simpson

March 13, 2012

Avant Art, Feature, Glass Design

THE former model turned photographer and life-long image obsessive, Belgrade-born artist Misha Milovanovich’s latest project, Misha World – her range of limited edition furniture and fashion – takes its inspira...

Turkish delight – Glass talks to photo-artist Jamie McLeod as he returns with a new show, Ottoman Fight Club, in London

Caroline Simpson

January 12, 2012

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Following his 2010 show, Jack Off Johnny, the photo-artist Jamie Mcleod returns to the Dalston Superstore, London, this month with a new exhibition, portraits of Turkish oil wrestlers, entitled Ottoman Fight Cl...

No ordinary muse – Glass interviews that charming man Roy Anthony Brown

Caroline Simpson

April 20, 2011

Culture, Feature

SEAMLESSLY and, apparently, effortlessly, Roy Anthony Brown, possessed with huge natural charm, unassuming affability and a gentle nature, has been a constant figure throughout one of the most exciting epochs i...

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