Samia Halaby: New Paintings

Justin van Vliet
Avant Art
  At 77, Samia Halaby is not lacking in inspiring, youthful energy and clearly enjoys challenging those around her. Even when photographing her, I asked for a subtle smile, to which she replied, "Well make m...

Paradise lost

Shaad Ali Baig
Avant Art, Culture
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Magnificent, compelling and often disconcerting, Edward Burtynsky’s images of manmade (and man-destroyed) landscapes have taken the art world by storm. Burtynsky speaks to Glass on oil, environment and why ...

Dream Sequence photography series

Roberta Lister
Avant Art, News
After 3 years of on-going work, the Dream Sequence photographic collaboration has come to fruition. The abstract series oscillates around the portraiture of unconventional fictional figures seen “at the crossro...

Like A Mute Dada Poem

Cristina Bodgan
Avant Art
In the asymmetrical space of a gallery, behind a large windowpane, six distinct works seem to have exploded from an imaginary centre. They have landed on the floor, on tilted plinths, on the walls. There is...

A modern artist

Justin van Vliet
Avant Art
Recognised for his ambiguous layering and subtle transparencies, Scottish painter Stuart McAlpine Miller, a graduate from the Glasgow School of Art, has developed an impressive portfolio over the last 20 ye...

AW 13 London Street Style

Roberta Lister
Avant Art
. As the weather finally closes in for a chilly winter, we look to the streets of London for style inspiration with an eccentrically British twist. The good news is that dresses and skirts are still on the m...

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...

FASHIONISTA(RT)

Ethan Long
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...

Evanescent interpretation

Justin van Vliet
Avant Art, Feature
Over the 30 years spanning his career, Philip-Lorca diCorcia has become one of the most influential photographers in the 21st century, credited for pioneering the “fictional” approach in contemporary photogra...

Facing a dark past with playful art

Peter Yeoh
Avant Art
At a glance, the twisted body of a woman chained to a bed inside a prison cell constructed inside The Container gallery in Tokyo, an art space converted from a container that sits inside a hair salon – spaces c...