London celebrates Pisco Sour week
Conceived in Peru by an American bar tender back in the 1920’s, the Pisco Sour – named after its main ingredient – has ever since made its way up through north America and over to Europe. Even though it’s now a...
Chinese Whispers opens at The Fine Art Society
Drawing on layered themes of reproduction, questions of authorship and authenticity, Rob and Nick Carter’s witty Chinese Whispers exhibition at The Fine Art Society certainly draws our attention to image percep...
Synthesising modern desires
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...
Powder Byrne Properties launch Chesa Araus
The established experts in the luxury ski travel business, Powder Byrne Properties have announced plans to build nine luxury apartments in the quaint resort of Arosa in Switzerland, where local houses are choco...
Then and now: celebrating 50 years of The London College of Furniture
The internationally renowned London College of Furniture is this month celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark half a century of championing design and creativity, over 70 pieces of furniture, machinery, phot...
Glass explores Yutaka Inagawa’s new body of work ahead of his latest solo show in London
The Invasion of Cyberspace – Glass explores Yutaka Inagawa's new body of work ahead of his latest solo show in London
Comprising of numerous visual layers and perspectives, Yutaka Inagawa’s conceptual art em...
Altered Perspectives at The House of St Barnabas’ Chapel
For just two days this week (Wednesday December 11 and Thursday December 12) The House of St Barnabas in Soho will be exhibiting a site-specific installation designed by the widely respected light artist Rupert...
Contemporary Istanbul proves popular with record art sales
Opened for its ninth edition last week, Contemporary Istanbul – Turkey’s biggest international art fair – exhibited a vast array of artistic wares from over 100 galleries across the globe. This year, visitor nu...
Constructing worlds: photography and architecture in the modern age
Constructing Worlds sprawls over two floors at the Barbican and unites 18 photographers from across the global signposting a journey that charts the relationship between architecture and photography. There ...
In pursuit of the higher – Mountains beyond Mountains
Jun Jiang the curator behind China’s architectural pavilion at the Venice Biennale speaks to Glass about the philosophies behind his national exhibit
China have this year based their pavilion Mountains b...
New Designers CLAMcollective launch at London Design Festival
London’s Design Festival is almost halfway through its' week-long parade, and with designjunction opening last night so did a host of smaller exhibitions. The melting pot of established and newcomers to the des...
Out of the status quo and into the real world
“The exhibition is about putting the physical artefacts we’ve collected and present them in raw state‚” Keigo Kobayashi and Norihito Nakatani talk to Glass about their pavilion at this year’s Architecture Bie...
Open House returns to London this weekend
Every year Open House tempts the architecturally curious side in each of us to roam around both public and privately owned buildings and spaces. Over one weekend, this coming weekend, we’re permitted access to ...
Enter through the forest and arrive in utopia – Green Man Festival
Buying a festival is scarcely heard of, but nine years ago Fiona Stewart decided to purchase Green Man when it was in desperate need of rejuvenation. Stewart had previously been the manager behind...
Foyles’ London transforms previous Central St Martins building
William and Gilbert Foyle started selling books from their parent’s home in the early 1900s so when demand outstretched the kitchen table they opened a shop on Charing Cross Road in London’s West End. The two b...
Art and the post-post-modern self
Entering the exhibition, Don’t You Know Who I Am?, one is immediately faced with an extensive arrangement of mis-matched chairs from various eras and in various styles. Abstract, slightly confusin...
Sky high luxury in East London
Cast an eye over the East London skyline, and apart from the small cluster of commercial buildings in Liverpool Street, you’ll see few skyscrapers, and even fewer residential ones. It’s a differen...
Smiljan Radić’s Serpentine Pavilion opens in Kensington Gardens
Despite the UK's longest day flitting by this weekend, we can rejoice that summertime in London is still on our side, and certainly in our favour as the Serpentine Pavilion – which for the past 14 years has enc...
Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles installed at Venice Architecture Biennale
For the last week Venice has been flooded with global architects, designers and artists as its’ International Architecture Biennale – curated by Rem Koolhaas – has opened up for its 14th year. As part of the cr...
10 years at Petersham Nurseries
This month the botanical treasure-trove that is Petersham Nurseries will be celebrating its 10th year. Overlooking the London Thames in Richmond, the garden centre had a humble start back in the 1970s before cl...
The body politic
This month, two plays have opened in London’s West-End to critical acclaim. One writer, Mike Poulton, has brilliantly transformed the books Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel’s B...