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Book review – Domon Ken: The Master of Japanese Realism

December 16, 2017

SKIRA’s release of two seminal books on the past and present of Japanese photography mark a renewed appreciation of this increasingly varied genre. In the first Domon Ken: The Master of Japanese Realism, Domon ...

Glass reviews Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield

Ethan Long

December 2, 2017

Books, Feature

ONE-UPMANSHIP stakes have never been higher than they are today. No longer content with limiting the competition to neighbours and friends and neighbours, today’s status chasers look to the cult of questionable...

Glass reviews James Moore: Photographs 1962 – 2006

Ethan Long

November 25, 2017

Books, Feature

ONE of the great unsung fashion photography masters, Brooklyn-born James Moore — his parents were first generation American, the children of Chinese immigrants from Canton — was responsible for some of the most...

Glass reviews 50 Years of Rolling Stone magazine

Ethan Long

November 11, 2017

Books, Feature

RARELY has a magazine so devoted to popular culture achieved as seminal a level of influence as Rolling Stone. In its 50 years, it has variously segued from being a beacon of music coverage to a powerhouse in i...

Glass reviews Harper’s Bazaar – 150 Years: the Greatest Moments

Ethan Long

November 4, 2017

Books, Culture, Feature

ONE of the important influences of Glass Magazine has been the work of the triumvirate of Marvin Israel, Ruth Ansel and Bea Feitler, the art directors of Harper’s Bazaar USA that so successfully captured the yo...

Glass reviews Dior Catwalk: The Complete Collections

Ethan Long

October 21, 2017

Books, Feature

THIS year marks the 70th anniversary of Maison Dior’s first collection. Since spring 1947’s New Look, the house has seen six designers after Monsieur Dior himself, the latest being Maria Grazia Chiuri. Dior C...

Taffin: The jewelry of James De Givenchy

The Glass review: Taffin – the jewellery of James de Givenchy

Ethan Long

September 2, 2017

Books, Feature

JAMES Claude Taffin de Givenchy (nephew of Hubert Givenchy) was born in the outskirts of Paris in 1963, moving to New York in the ‘80s to study fine arts. Initially working in the auction world, Givenchy was in...

Glass reviews Paris Refashioned, 1957–1968 by Colleen Hill

Ethan Long

February 3, 2017

Fashion, Feature

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WHILE London started to move centre-stage in youth fashion and culture by the start of the 60s, Paris had started to evolve beyond its couture roots into what we know as fashion today – with the emergence of re...

Max Beckmann in New York Beckmann Departure Museum of Modern Art New York

Glass reviews … Max Beckmann in New York by Sabine Rewald

Ethan Long

November 25, 2016

Art, Books, Feature

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“My heart beats more for a rougher, commoner, more vulgar art ... one that offers direct access to the terrible, the crude, the magnificent, the ordinary, the grotesque and the banal in life. An art that can al...

Pool your resources

Ethan Long

September 29, 2014

Feature, Travel, United Kingdom

As well as enjoying its recent cultural and artistic renaissance, with the opening of Tate Liverpool and being designated in the European Capital of Culture, the port city of Liverpool is also ideally loca...

Mersey, Mersey me

Ethan Long

September 4, 2014

Culture, Europe, Feature, Travel, United Kingdom

Since 2008, when it was named the European Capital of Culture, the transformation of Liverpool has brought a new artistic confidence and vigour to the great port-city. Liverpool now has more galle...

FASHIONISTA(RT)

Ethan Long

November 12, 2013

Avant Art, Culture

. Can fashion ever be art? Very few cultural arguments have divided opinion so strongly. Miuccia Prada echoed the sentiments of many that ‘…fashion is not art’ in an imagined conversation with Schiaparelli i...

Where art thou? Glass reviews Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces

Ethan Long

November 6, 2013

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Where art thou? Glass reviews Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces – a stunning new book offers unique insights into the creative world of America’s most celebrated artists The artist’s studio is th...

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