China on my mind

Rowena Chiu
Archive, Avant Art, Culture
  Contemporary Chinese artists track the growing contradictions and conflicts between old and new China, testing the perimeters between traditional and contemporary art, whilst all the time explorin...

Capturing light

Peter Yeoh
Archive, Avant Art, Feature
  Hiroshi Sugimoto has made his name as a chronicler of time immemorial. His photography emerges from and lives in the interstices of personal and collective memory, as part of what he calls “the hist...

The stiletto

Jodie Kharas
Archive
  The story of the stiletto began at the dawn of a new world. The Second World The Second World War had ended and the protocols of tradition were deemed irrelevant. In an effort to restore the pre-WW2 s...

Immortal melody

Nicola Kavanagh
Archive, Feature
They are some of the greatest masterpieces ever written by humankind but what does the future hold for such specialist art forms as classical music and opera? What relevance do they hold in modern society and w...

Model citizen

Nicola Kavanagh
Archive, Culture, News
She is one of the top models in the world and has done every show from Chanel to Victoria’s Secret but Jacquelyn Jablonski still loves nothing better than her mum’s home cooking and hanging on the beach in...

Dreaming in colour

Nicola Kavanagh
Archive, Avant Art, Feature
They captured the essence of what it means to be human and made magic of the everyday. Some of the most important photographers to have ever picked up a camera speak to Glass. Reportage photography is, in its...

La vie en rose

Nicola Kavanagh
Archive, Feature
“We live in the times we do, and nothing is sillier than to turn one’s back on them.” Those are the insightful words of one of the most famous couturiers who ever lived, and his words seem more relevant n...

Emotive design

Harry Cohen
Archive, Design, Glass Design
Despite her humble demeanour, British designer Ilse Crawford has a lot to be proud of. Originally the founding editor of interior decoration bible Elle Decoration UK, Crawford went on to found her own design co...
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Finest China

glasswp
Archive, Art, Avant Art
Forged by the flames of Chinese kilns, porcelain (also called “china ”, “fine china” or “chinaware”), has been collected and revered for centuries. Translucent when held up to the light, strong and emitting a r...

Revolutionary romance

Nicola Kavanagh
Archive, Culture
Deflected from the possibilities of intimacy In a rapid tour of new Shanghai, Five Star Billionaire sees Malaysian literary wunderkind Tash Aw guide us around the burgeoning metropolis by way of five cha...

The songbirds of China

Glass Archive
Archive, Culture, Feature
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The 1930s Shanghai’s Jazz scene rivalled those of Paris or New York  but it was the female vocalists who defined the era. Glass speaks to two living legends. In 1934, jazz composer and pianist Duke Ellingto...