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Floating Urban Slime/Sublime: Opening Night at Art Gallery Miyauchi

December 21, 2017

THE opening of Floating Urban Slime/Sublime at Art Gallery Miyauchi was ushered in with a programme of performance events and talks. The first event last month was a performance featuring an abstract garment sp...

Yutaka Inagawa Floating Slime Story feature image

Floating Urban Slime/Sublime Exhibition opens at Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima

Louise Lui

November 21, 2017

Art, Avant Art, Feature, Photography

THROUGHOUT modern history, countless artists, writers and philosophers have sought to break free from “linear” and “logical” modes of thought in their own ways. There is a certain allure in the idea of accessin...

Glass previews exhibition – Floating Urban Slime/Sublime

Louise Lui

September 27, 2017

Art, Avant Art, Exhibitions, Feature

COMING soon ... Floating Urban Slime / Sublime, a contemporary, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary project led by Yutaka Inagawa. Participating practitioners are: Sze Yang Boo James Brooks, Hua Kuan Chen S...

Aperture Issue 227: Platform Africa launches this summer

Louise Lui

May 17, 2017

Art, News, Photography

AMID the art world hustle and bustle of fairs and auction viewings scattered around New York City, Aperture Foundation celebrated the launch of their new summer issue last week. Titled “Platform Africa,” it was...

An era without memories – Glass reviews a new book of contemporary photography depicting the rapid urbanisation of China

Louise Lui

October 27, 2015

Art, Books, Feature, Photography

THE urban transformation of China in the past few decades has been given rise to countless books, articles, and arresting testimonies. An Era Without Memories documents this in photographic form, showcasing the...

Wang Qingsong at Beetles + Huxley

Louise Lui

August 26, 2015

Avant Art, Don't Miss: Film, News

This September, Beetles + Huxley will showcase a retrospective of Wang Qingsong’s works. The artist works primarily in photography and film, creating cinematic and darkly humorous works. They are known for thei...

A fresh look into modern China

Louise Lui

August 6, 2015

Avant Art, Books, China, Feature, Photography

The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present The Chinese photobook emerges from a rich and diverse history that has still been largely unexplored. Ranging from personal artist prints and albums t...

Frieze New York 2015

Louise Lui

June 10, 2015

Avant Art, Feature

Now in its fourth year, Frieze New York has established itself as a main fixture in the city’s art scene. This year’s event was a large and lively affair, with over 190 galleries from 33 different countries...

German photographer Candida Höfer at Sean Kelly Gallery

Louise Lui

May 25, 2015

Avant Art, News, Photography

Following years with Sonnabend Gallery, acclaimed photographer Candida Höfer has joined Sean Kelly Gallery. From Düsseldorf is Höfer’s first exhibition with the gallery and her first in New York since 2013. ...

Toni Gallagher at The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Louise Lui

May 11, 2015

Avant Art, News

Toni Gallagher will exhibit in The Fall of the Rebel Angels, an international contemporary art group show curated by Vanya Balogh. An artist-led satellite exhibition, the show will take place concurrently with ...

Prada Pre-Fall 2015 Campaign launches

Louise Lui

May 1, 2015

News, Photography

Prada’s staple campaign photographer Steven Meisel shoots this year’s pre-fall collection once again, playing with the ambiguities and asymmetries that men and women share. Couples are either aloof or intimatel...

Kazuo & Fujiko Shiraga at Fergus McCafferey New York

Louise Lui

April 30, 2015

Avant Art, News

Kazuo Shiraga has become one of the most prominent members of the Gutai group and a highly successful artist in his own right. However, less commonly explored is the role his wife Fujiko played in his practice ...

Chanel’s annual ephemeral boutique in St-Tropez now open

Louise Lui

April 30, 2015

Jewellery and Watches, News

Every year Chanel takes up summer residence at the private mansion La Mistralée in Saint-Tropez, heralding the arrival of warmer, sunnier weather. Each summer, the ephemeral boutique sheds its old skin and take...

A zesty palette for the C de Cartier Bag

Louise Lui

April 17, 2015

News

Just in time for summer, Cartier has released the C de Cartier bag in a new array of vibrant shades. Inspired by fine stones and the brand’s signature shades, the new palette includes amethyst, spessartite garn...

Chinese painter Mao Yan’s American debut

Louise Lui

March 30, 2015

Avant Art, News

The contemporary art world tends to favour Chinese artists who use a blatantly “Chinese iconography”. Defying this aesthetic, portrait artist Mao Yan’s work seems to borrow much from the traditional European se...

Last chance to see Between East and West

Louise Lui

March 29, 2015

Avant Art, News

This week marks the last chance to see Between East and West: The British Chinese. The exhibition by photographer and oral historian Mike Tsang delves into the heritage and stories of British-born Chinese. Ten ...

Hayv Kahraman exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York – How Iraqi Are You?

Louise Lui

March 27, 2015

Avant Art, News

This spring, Jack Shainman Gallery presents How Iraqi Are You?, an exhibition of large scale linen paintings by Hayv Kahraman. This new series is based aesthetically on medieval Iraqi illuminated manuscripts, n...

Documenting landscape and tracing memory – Michelle Stuart at Parafin gallery, London

Louise Lui

March 27, 2015

Avant Art, News

American artist Michelle Stuart will showcase an exhibition of recent works at London’s Parafin gallery. Known for her synthesis of Land Art, drawing, and sculpture, Stuart’s work explores the overlapping of na...

PFW AW15: Stella McCartney

Louise Lui

March 11, 2015

News

Stella McCartney has a knack for making everything look effortless. This season, she stresses that by using thick winter fabrics like wool in a delicate, swishy manner that belies their stiffer materiality. Str...

Shiraga’s “foot paintings” exhibited at Mnuchin Gallery

Louise Lui

March 2, 2015

Avant Art, News

Gutai artists, particularly Kazuo Shiraga, have been all over the art gallery world this year. Mnuchin Gallery jumps on this bandwagon with its latest exhibition of major paintings by Shiraga, tracing the evolu...

MFW AW 2015: Jil Sander

Louise Lui

March 2, 2015

News

Finding order amidst disorder was Rodolfo Paglialunga’s mission for this season. Long, lean silhouettes contrasted with blocky prints, and a smart palette of navy and black was paired with graphic pops of hunte...

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