A woman centre stage
As her new play, Nell Gwynn, opens at The Globe; Glass talks to award winning playwright and director Jessica Swale, about her work, women in theatre, and the alchemy of writing.
Jessica Swale returns to...
A private view
The viewer becomes voyeur at Richard Saltoun’s Temptations of Pierre Molinier Featuring over 50 of the artist’s works created from 1952 onwards, the exhibition is mostly comprised of Molinier’s home develo...
In focus – rapturous revolution
Master of the Lens: Helmut Newton In Focus
To utter the name Helmut Newton is to evoke a black and white world of predatory, self-aware women more at home in the cabarets of Weimar Germany than the glossy ...
Damien Hirst or Ai Weiwei? Debating with London Art Studies
Responding to the growth in popularity but perhaps a lack of confident understanding of art, Kate Gordon has built an educational model which aims to cultivate awareness and stimulate debate within the wide...
Rodial launch bespoke brush case
The Rodial Art & Design Challenge in association with London’s renowned Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (CSM), has resulted in a beautiful, bespoke brush case, which looks likely to sell...
Spend a weekend white truffle foraging at Villa Lena, Tuscany
Set in 500 acres of stunning woodland, the historic Tuscan retreat Villa Lena will be hosting a special weekend this October in celebration of the white truffle – trifola d'Alba Madonna, which grows amid the ro...
The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century
Born from post-war socio-political shifts, visual poetry has been a movement of dramatic rise and quick decline in popularity. With the relatively new availability of written word through digital mediums, com...
The great Wall
Jeff Wall exhibitions can feel rather mo
re like going to the cinema than to a gallery. Wall’s large scale photographic tableaux, famously displayed on huge light boxes, have their own veritable theatre, a bac...
She Inspires Art – Women for Women International at Bonhams
The art world will join forces with Women for Women International at Bonhams next month for an evening of installation, performance, and fundraising in aid of women survivors of war.
She Inspires Art will in...
Written on the body – Glass meets the up-and-coming British artist Ewa Wilczynski
”I am drawn to visceral reactions as well as the dark. I am interested in anatomy and want to make the inside come outside in my work,” says the London-based artist Ewa Wilczynski as we drink tea at Maison Bert...
Wang Qingsong at Beetles + Huxley
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...
Burning bright
A new members’ club in the West End has eclipsed the strobe lights, street lights, and twinkling taxi signs to earn the distinction of its name – Lights of Soho (LoS). LoS runs on a principle of inclusivity ra...
Blue Sky Hospitality strikes gold in Baku
Drawing inspiration from the mineral wealth of Azerbaijan, Henry Chebaane, founder of Blue Sky Hospitality, is responsible for the design of OroNero, the new Italian dining sensation at the JW Marriot...
Arctic living – the SALTed experience
On the Norwegian island Sandhornøy, where the white Arctic beach meets the high mountains, the cultural project SALT takes place. SALT celebrates the Arctic culture and nature with this unique arts and musi...
New Alexander McQueen fashion film from ShowStudio
Prompted by Savage Beauty, the recently closed block-busting retrospective of work by Alexander McQueen, at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, the British fashion filmmaker and photographer Nick Knight an...
A fresh look into modern China
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...
A lively library experience
Near to the Trafalgar Square end of the St Martin’s Lane in Central London, one will happen upon an enigmatic shop window. With leather satchels on display, it is not immediately apparent that this frontage...
I Think Therefore I #: Celina Teague responds to the dialogues of social media
It would be easy to read painter Celina Teague’s new show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London, I think therefore I #, as a cynic’s dense iteration of the ephemerality and frivolity of social media and its...
Hiroshima’s Dogs in a Room Exhibit is Daringly Confrontational
The typical curator strives to create harmony amongst their artworks – they take a space, manipulate the artistry within it, and premeditate a navigable and digestible experience for the patron.
In discordan...
Greats of choreography – passion of dance
Dance is as indefinable as it is intangible. It is an intrinsic, visceral experience with no other purpose than to explore the limits of human capability and freedom of spirit, an innate and inexorabl...
Between rebellion and beauty – Glass talks to Camille Blatrix, the Prix d’Enterprise Ricard-winning artist whose first UK solo show opens at MOSTYN, Wales.
Processing tensions between the self, memory and rebellion through his work, Camille Blatrix’s solo show at MOSTYN in Llandudno aims to reflect feelings of both the fictional and autobiographical. In conjunctio...