Five decades of East London
When the name David Bailey is mentioned it usually is connected with high fashion and when the biggest names need to be photographed in a truly iconic way. In these three volumes, Bailey’s East End, he intr...
Discover The Road to Elysium via Heist Gallery
London’s enigmatic new gallery, Heist has kept up the pace since their recent launch with their latest exhibition, The Road to Elysium. A bold new group show that has collated the unique utopian visions of a se...
Meanwhile Back In the Wick – new show opens
Prompt Gallery presents its debut show Meanwhile Back In The Wick in what was Hackney Wick’s first exhibition space, Queens Yard, featuring the work of three Wick-based artists, Aida, John Atherton and OKO.
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Nam June Paik at Tate Modern
This autumn Tate Modern showcases Nam June Paik, an exhibition with works from all the phases of the Korean artist’s career featuring key artworks to draw on the complexity of his ideas.
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A triumph of the spirit
Singer and photographer Bryan Adams’ new book Wounded is not an easy book to read. It isn’t meant to be easy. It is a beautiful book with beautiful people, but filled with the raw ugliness of the legacy of ...
Stuart Semple: Anxiety Generation at Mayfair’s Delahunty
British artist Stuart Semple will exhibit Anxiety Generation at the Delahunty, a new gallery in Mayfair, London. Following a period of immersive and installation work made primarily with mixed media, Semple ret...
Air, land and sea
Imagine a tour of Antwerp that ignores Belgium’s finest Gothic cathedral, the diamond district and Rubens. Imagine a tour that focuses only on contemporary, cutting-edge art. At the same time, keep in mind that...
Emo Verkerk: new show at the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Holland
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will present an exhibition of 90 paintings and sculptures, entitled Love Me or Leave Me by Dutch artist Emo Verkerk, one of the most important artists working in the Netherlands in recen...
Sculptor Duane Hanson at Gagosian NYC – The Commonplace Refurbished as Surreal
“I want to achieve a certain tough realism which speaks of the fascinating idiosyncrasies of our times,” Duane Hanson
This past week, Gagosian New York presented American sculptor Duane Hanson’s Security Guar...
Roger Law ceramics at Sladmore Contemporary and talk at the British Museum
This month, former puppet-maker and TV satirist Roger Law’s witty and delicate ceramic creations are on display at Sladmore Contemporary, London and he will also be talking about his work in pottery at the Brit...
Constructing worlds: photography and architecture in the modern age
Constructing Worlds sprawls over two floors at the Barbican and unites 18 photographers from across the global signposting a journey that charts the relationship between architecture and photography. There ...
Dive into Romanticism: Romantic Fashions – Mr Darcy meets Eline Vere
This autumn, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag explores the special and turbulent era of 19th century with a breathtaking exhibition entitled Romantic Fashions – Mr Darcy meets Eline Vere; bringing to life a range of fas...
Horror Vacui: the fear of empty spaces at Gagosian, Athens
On show at Gagosian Gallery, Athens is an exquisite exhibition comprised of multiple works by well-known established artists with the central theme of “horror vacui” or “fear of empty spaces” a term describing ...
Andrew Levitas: Metalwork Photography at the Phillips Gallery
Phillips Gallery is presenting a series of Andrew Levitas’ signature Metalwork Photography. Levitas’ patented process involves the transfer of photographs onto transparencies, and consequently melted onto hand ...
Sweet perfection – Artist David Shrigley makes tea at Sketch, London
Sweet perfection – Artist David Shrigley makes tea at Sketch, London
Afternoon tea has been given a delicious twist by artist David Shrigley, as part of a two-year residency at Sketch. The Turner Prize-nomin...
In pursuit of the higher – Mountains beyond Mountains
Jun Jiang the curator behind China’s architectural pavilion at the Venice Biennale speaks to Glass about the philosophies behind his national exhibit
China have this year based their pavilion Mountains b...
Grande Dame will put her spell on you
Creative tour de force Tiff McGinnis, aka Grande Dame, brings her multi-media spectacle to Ink-D Gallery, Brighton with her show My Voodoo On You – a psychedelic salon of sound, moving image, original art, limi...
Local history – examining a pivotal intersection between three postwar artists
Dominique Lévy gallery is presenting Local History, a transatlantic exhibition that presents the moment of creative intersection between three distinct post-war artists. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, th...
Frieze Masters 2014: focus on the collector
There are many players in the art world: gallerists, artists, dealers, patrons of art ... however in my opinion the most interesting and fascinating has always been the collector. Many people may wonder wha...
Glass attends the opening of The Visionary World of Vogue Italia
In conjunction with its 50th anniversary, Vogue Italia has collaborated with Peroni to launch an exhibition celebrating the iconic magazine’s artistry and influence. Held at Industria, Studio 10, on the west si...
Beauty and the Beast
The beautiful museum Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is located in the very centre of Copenhagen and this autumn it has put on a fascinating exhibition Transformations: Classical Sculpture in Colour. The objective o...