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...
Larry Poons’ radical surface
Even the floor of Larry Poons’ Manhattan loft studio is thick with art. Thirty years of flinging paint onto canvases has congealed to leave a brightly textured husk that covers every surface. “The whole roo...
The artful dresser
At an art opening, a man gets to shed his work uniform and wear groovy clothes, and, for a few hours, behaves like an iconoclast in the splendour of a museum or gallery. There he flaunts his bold sartorial st...
The beauty of ambiguity – Yang Fudong
There is nothing black and white about Yang Fudong’s film and video art. It is intricate and philosophical, playful and compelling, striking and underpinned by a beautiful ambiguity. His works bear the hall...
Olafur Eliasson’s Iceland
“Travelling in Iceland has helped me understand that being present is the foundation of my doing.” Olafur Eliasson
Each year, artist Olafur Eliasson returns to Iceland, his parent’s homeland, to explore an...
The Collective Summer Exhibition at House of St Barnabas
With forecasters promising a deluge of eschatological proportions, inclement weather did not sully the mostly outdoor private view of The Collective Summer Exhibition at the House of St. Barnabas (HoSB). The Co...
Dreamscapes of the everyday
Painting the uncanny, quiet truths of personal experience. Lois Dodd, a forerunner of the 1950s New York art revolution, in conversation
The artist Lois Dodd paints visions of humble beauty that are at o...
A life less ordinary
IT IS with great sadness that we announce today the death of a dear Glass friend and collaborator and a true visionary and creative. Jules Wright, curator, commissioner, art director, supporter of creatives...
The Toxic Sublime at White Cube, London
It’s complicated, our relationship with the natural world. And Marc Quinn has found inspiration in that complexity for his latest exhibition with White Cube, The Toxic Sublime.
The first of the two bodies of...
Blow Up at Parafin Gallery, London
Throughout July and August, Parafin gallery are holding the aptly named exhibition, Blow Up. In its exploration of the landscape of contemporary painting, the show identifies the relationship between painting, ...
Sprayed at Gagosian Gallery, London
The upcoming exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, London does what it says on the tin ... or spray can. Sprayed will showcase the manifold ways in which artists, across four generations, have used the impulsive and ...