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Sterling Ruby VIVIDS at Gagosian Gallery

August 27, 2014

Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong will present an exhibition of new spray paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby. Rendered in a fluorescent pink palette, VIVIDS reflects Ruby’s ruminations on the ever-cha...

From Architecture, SCANning Art

Christian Parreno

August 27, 2014

Avant Art, Feature, Glass Design

To scan is to glance and examine the particulars of an object or a condition. Yet it is also to scrutinise and observe sweepingly, as a large expanse. In summary, these are the actions and ambitions of Pedr...

First Look presented by New Museum and Rhizome

Louise Lui

August 26, 2014

Avant Art, News

First Look, an ongoing series of digital projects by the New Museum, New York, will now be co-curated and co-presented by Rhizome, an internet arts organisation. First Look began in 2012 with Image Atlas by ...

When the  world says no

Glass Archive

August 22, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Culture, Feature

When Yoko Ono was a young girl living in Japan she witnessed the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The indescribable horror of the atomic bombs hitting the two cities and concluding WWII in 1945 will forev...

BMW Tate Live: Up Hill Down Hall, An indoor carnival

Xenia Founta

August 21, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

This weekend a new performance commission Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival takes place at Τate Modern. The commission is a collaboration in which contemporary artists engage with Carnival by translating th...

The image at breaking point

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

August 21, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Travel

“My body is the intention, my body is the event, my body is the result,” said Gunter Brus, co-founder with Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler of a new art movement called Vienna Actionism. A...

Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian Gallery

Louise Lui

August 20, 2014

Avant Art, News

Organised in collaboration with the newly established Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Gagosian Gallery will present Helen Frankenthaler—Composing with Colour: Paintings 1962-1963. Curated by John Elderfield, t...

Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District: DECADE

Louise Lui

August 20, 2014

Avant Art, News

Breaking free from the constraints of a traditional performance venue, Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) has launched digital exhibition DECADE. A cross-disciplinary, collaborative, a...

Fishwives and knitted herrings

Lilian Pizzichini

August 20, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, Feature

Swan House is classic Hastings. Go past the Tourist Information centre and Iceland, keep walking to Argos and George Street, then climb up some narrow, cobbled steps to Hill Street. Swan House is ad...

Monika Sosnowska’s Tower on view at Hauser & Wirth

Louise Lui

August 18, 2014

Avant Art, News

Hauser & Wirth will present Monika Sosnowska’s Tower, a sculpture alluding to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s structures and the International Style, next month in NYC, Polish-born Sosnowska is known for her ...

Inaugural edition of Photo Shanghai to launch this September

Louise Lui

August 18, 2014

Avant Art, News

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Earlier this year, the World Photography Organisation and Montgomery announced that the first international art fair dedicated to photography in China will launch this autumn. The inaugural edition of Photo Sha...

After Dark – winning robots at Tate Britain

Xenia Founta

August 15, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

Tate Britain announced this week After Dark, the winning project of the IK Prize 2014, a newly annual prize which aims to transform digital innovative ideas into new ways of discovering art and widens its audie...

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts open new hotel in Tianjin, China

Amanda Bernstein

August 15, 2014

Asia, Avant Art, China, News, Travel

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has opened its 85th hotel in China’s largest northern port city, Tianjin. The 302-room Shangri-La sits on the bank of the Haihe River in the new Hedong District. Tianjin is a bustl...

The unflinching lens – monochromatic memories

Peter Yeoh

August 15, 2014

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

The Glass Archive presents the second in a special three-part series – The unflinching lens Part three: Monochromatic memories Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,  three eminent Japanese post...

Chloé launch AW14 ad campaign

Livia Feltham

August 13, 2014

advert, Culture of Commerce, Fashion, Feature, Glass Models, News, Photography

It’s everyone’s favourite fashion fairy-tale, a “sisters are doing it for themselves” road trip in the seminal spirit of Thelma and Louise, so now it’s everyone’s time to embrace it, turned out in Chloé’s recen...

Frances Aviva Blane - Untitled 1: 34x34 cm, pastel on fabriano paper

Three Bs in Belgium – Glass previews the Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon and Francis Aviva Blane show at the De Queeste Art gallery

Louise Lui

August 12, 2014

Art, Feature

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This month, De Queeste Art, Belgium, will present three unique exhibitions featuring the work of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Francis Bacon (1909-1992), and contemporary British artist Frances Aviva Blane. ...

A walk through British Art – Pre-Raphaelites return to Tate Britain

Xenia Founta

August 11, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

John Everett Millais’s Ophelia has returned this week to Tate Britain this week, after being included in a two-year international tour interacting in different contexts and cultures which attracted an audience ...

The unflinching lens – Bodyscapes

Peter Yeoh

August 8, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Feature

The Glass Archive presents the second in a special three-part series – The unflinching lens Part two Bodyscapes Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,  three eminent Japanese post-war photographers...

Fine print

Lisa Kim

August 7, 2014

Avant Art

It’s clear from London artist Aida Wilde’s work that she has a great love of animals big and small but a closer look at her latest series Habros reveals darker themes like issues of colonialism, t...

Second Floor by Sam Taylor-Johnson at Saatchi Gallery

Livia Feltham

August 5, 2014

Avant Art, News

For a lot of fashion history buffs out there time travel is one of those wildest of dreams that we’d all love to become a reality. At the Saatchi Gallery in just over a month’s time, it is becoming a reality, t...

63rd-77th Steps

Cristina Bodgan

August 5, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Last summer, Glass explored the young contemporary art scene in Bari, Puglia. We discovered that the fresh city by the sea was not only host to many young commercial galleries, such as unconventional curato...