Art - The Glass Magazine

March 2, 2015

Gutai artists, particularly Kazuo Shiraga, have been all over the art gallery world this year. Mnuchin Gallery jumps on this bandwagon with its latest exhibition of major paintings by Shiraga, tracing the evolu...

The Fine Arts Society at Art Central Hong Kong

March 1, 2015

A testament to the city’s importance to the international art collecting community, Art Central Hong Kong is the latest edition to the art fair calendar. Located just a ten minute walk away from Art Basel Hong ...

Dream-weaver – the surreal eye. Glass speaks to the extraordinary photographer Bill Silano

Glass Archive

February 27, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Books, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News, Photography

Dream-weaver – the surreal eye. Glass speaks to the extraordinary photographer Bill Silano The extraordinary work of Bill Silano marked a new era in fashion photography, but having shied away from the spotli...

Harlem’s Fashion Row: NYC’s multi-cultural arts and fashion platform

February 26, 2015

Avant Art, Jewellery and Watches

In a continuation of Glass’s celebration of the diverse and culture-rich Harlem neighbourhood last month, we now turn to its fashion scene and the illustrious organization Harlem's Fashion Row. As New York F...

Sam Roddick’s Hidden Within – Eroticism Through a Critical Lens

February 26, 2015

“Sex has been sold into consumerism,” says Sam Roddick. And she should know. The lifelong activist and artist is a former businesswoman, with a penchant for the sexy. She opened her ethical erotic lifestyle bus...

Misogyny, madness and old age – Glass reviews the Goya exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery opening today

Lilian Pizzichini

February 26, 2015

Avant Art, Feature

Misogyny, madness and old age – Glass reviews the Goya exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery opening today In 1793, after a dangerous illness, the celebrated court painter, Francisco Goya, became profoundly de...

Bridget Riley, Prints 1962-2015, opens at Sims Reed Gallery

Stephanie Clair

February 24, 2015

After exhibiting her work for a number of years, Sims Reed Gallery has for the first time curated a comprehensive exhibition of the innovative post-war artist Bridget Riley. Unmistakably abstract, Riley’s wo...

Ann Veronica Janssens’ debut during Hong Kong’s Art Basel

Kim Ing

February 24, 2015

Five selected sculptures from the British-born contemporary artist Ann Veronica Janssens will arrive at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery next month, in time for Hong Kong’s Art Basel week. This solo exhibition marks ...

A Haunted Art Dollhouse at Luxembourg & Dayan

February 20, 2015

From next week, Luxembourg & Dayan’s townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side will be transformed into a spooky cross between a dollhouse and a haunted house by Alex Da Corte. Die Hexe—“the witch” in German...

Sotto Voce at Dominique Lévi London

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

February 18, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, News

The abstract white relief is the common denominator of the show Sotto Voce currently at Dominique Lévy Gallery in London. Sotto Voce will take your breath away, guiding the spectator through they history and pr...

Magnificent obsession – Photographer Lee Miller and a life uncensored

Lauren Weinberg

February 12, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Beauty, Books, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, Photography

Magnificent obsession – Photographer Lee Miller and a life uncensored Mention Lee Miller’s name and the image of an icy, ethereal blonde comes to mind, her exquisite profile shimmering in the aura of a Steic...

The Reality of the Snowman: Peter Regli’s Snow Monsters in NYC

February 11, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, New York, News, Travel

Northward facing, in the immense shadows of the Flatiron Building and the (however urban-sparse) trees of Madison Square Park, are a flock of new sculptural residents. In conjunction with Dominque Lévy Galle...

The material world – Phaidon publishes the first monograph of Chinese artist, Yin Xiuzhen

Stephanie Clair

February 11, 2015

Avant Art, China, Feature

The material world – Phaidon publishes the first monograph of Chinese artist, Yin Xiuzhen “The value of a work of art is the value and knowledge and ideas, rather than the value of its materials …” Yin Xiuzh...

Ruven Afanador’s Ángel Gitano – Glass reviews the NYC-based Colombian photographer’s latest show – The Men of Flamenco

February 10, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Travel

Glass reviews the NYC-based Colombian photographer’s latest show – The Men of Flamenco New York City’s upper east side Throckmorton Fine Art is exhibiting, for the fourth time, the images of NYC-based Colomb...

The art of eating

Sean Sheehan

February 9, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, Feature

Tate Britain came up with a logical idea as to where best to eat after appreciating an art show when it commissioned the artist Rex Whistler in the 1920s to decorate the gallery’s Refreshment Room. He spent eig...

Oscar Holloway’s Dioramas on show at Divus London

February 9, 2015

The production and distribution of hunting photographs is a sub-genre that has existed since the birth of field photography. Artist Oscar Holloway explores the subjects of hunting, natural history, conservation...

German artist Jana Gunstheimer presents first ever Dutch solo show at GEM

February 7, 2015