Restless preoccupations
Glass Interviews Yutaka Inagawa on his Malaysian solo show and His restless preoccupation with intersecting mediums, cultural identities
Japanese photomontage artist Yutaka Inagawa’s solo show in Kuala L...
I Think Therefore I #: Celina Teague responds to the dialogues of social media
It would be easy to read painter Celina Teague’s new show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London, I think therefore I #, as a cynic’s dense iteration of the ephemerality and frivolity of social media and its...
Hiroshima’s Dogs in a Room Exhibit is Daringly Confrontational
The typical curator strives to create harmony amongst their artworks – they take a space, manipulate the artistry within it, and premeditate a navigable and digestible experience for the patron.
In discordan...
Andrei Tarkovsky Retrospective at NYC’s MAD: Sculpting in Time
Tarkovsky’s Solaris opens with mesmerising visuals of the natural earth, emphasising the tactile grandeur of what it has to offer – from there, the near entire rest of the film is set in space, on a vessel livi...
NYC’s Museum of Art and Design focuses on filmmaker Roy Andersson in Spring Retrospective
New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design presents It's Hard to Be Human: The Cinema of Roy Andersson until June 27. Featuring his American breakout film A Swedish Love Story alongside his lesser known short fi...
National Pavilion UAE showcases extensive, 100-piece show at Venice Biennale
The National Pavilion United Arab Emirates was first involved with la Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition four years ago, with a presence at the 53rd year’s national pavilion. Ever since, it has pa...
IUAV students present projects developed at La Scuola dei Maestri Pellettieri di Bottega Veneta
Known for its fine Italian designs and coveted, luxury handbags and leather goods, Bottega Veneta is rooted not only in its contemporary look, but in the traditionalism of design and materials that inspires eve...
Thomas Zanon-Larcher shows at Photo London
Photo London kicks off at Somerset House this week. More than just a photography exhibit, the international arts fair features public programmes and talks, large-scale art exhibitions, and site-specific install...
If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse?
Known as one of the leaders of the New French dance and non-dance movements in France in the respective 1970s and 1990s, renowned French choreographer Boris Charmatz will be leading London’s Tate Modern through...
Running in the family
Opening next month at Yorkshire Sculpture Park is the joint exhibition of works by Venetian glass artists Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana. The siblings’ first show in the UK, YSP’s spa...
Observatory at One World Trade Center opens to the public
New York City’s got the Top of the Rock excursion at Rockefeller Center. It’s got the Empire State Building's Observation Deck. And now, it’s got the much-anticipated Observatory at One World Trade Center.
T...
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye selects pieces for Whitechapel Gallery’s new show
Turner Prize-nominated Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is assistant curating an exhibition this spring at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Running now through mid-June, the presentation, titled Natures, Natural and Unnatura...
Ecuadorian artist Oscar Santillan new show at Copperfield Gallery, London
Oscar Santillan brings a new level of commitment to the rampant physicality of contemporary art. The self-taught Ecuadorian artist, for his first UK solo exhibit, will scale England’s highest point at Scafell P...
Re-envisioning kitsch
The London-based, Serbian-born artist Misha Milovanovich's latest series of works is a collection of drawings that depict found objects floating amongst sepia clouds. The curio are supposedly random, each a...
Ralph Pucci – The Art of the Mannequin at Museum of Arts and Design
New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design presents a pioneering exhibition, the first in a museum to focus on mannequin design. The retrospective, of sorts, highlights the industry and innovation of New York-ba...
Harlem’s Fashion Row: NYC’s multi-cultural arts and fashion platform
In a continuation of Glass’s celebration of the diverse and culture-rich Harlem neighbourhood last month, we now turn to its fashion scene and the illustrious organization Harlem's Fashion Row.
As New York F...
Sam Roddick’s Hidden Within – Eroticism Through a Critical Lens
“Sex has been sold into consumerism,” says Sam Roddick. And she should know. The lifelong activist and artist is a former businesswoman, with a penchant for the sexy. She opened her ethical erotic lifestyle bus...
MBFW Recap: Son Jung Wan
The wool, fur, cashmere and lambskin fabrics quite clearly denoted the seasonal bent of South Korean designer Son Jung Wan’s AW15 collection. If not the mermaid-like sequins, or the garments’ voluptuous fur ext...
MADE Fashion Week Recap: Tim Coppens
Tim Coppens took us back to the 1990s with his Fall 2015 collection. “Tailored raver”, I heard it called, and “curated club kid”. There was definitely a thematic angst to the designs, with moto-jackets, attenu...
MBFW Recap: Noon by Noor
The two young women behind Noon by Noor, Bahrainian cousins Shaikha Noor Al Khalifa and Shaikha Haya Al Khalifa, were a slight presence at the end of their show; they made for a jointly meek wave and reclusion ...
NYFW Recap: Porsche Design AW15
The Porsche Design AW15 collection is a dystopian vision cast in hues of black, deep greens and grays, and camel tones. Picture WWII-era womenswear silhouettes: Hepburn-style sailor trousers, empire waists, fla...