Chloé launch AW14 ad campaign
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...
Three Bs in Belgium – Glass previews the Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon and Francis Aviva Blane show at the De Queeste Art gallery
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.
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A walk through British Art – Pre-Raphaelites return to Tate Britain
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
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
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
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
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...
Luxembourg and Dayan: That Obscure Object of Desire
Luxembourg and Dayan: That Obscure Object of Desire
This August, Luxembourg and Dayan will present That Obscure Object of Desire. Titled after Luis Buñuel’s 1977 film, in which the protagonist’s lust for an ...
Digital art platform Curiator updates app
Curiator, an online platform to discover, share and collect art, has grown rapidly since its inception. Only three months after its launch to the public and two months after the launch of its mobile app, Curiat...
Tate announces 2015 highlights
The highlights of the Tate’ s2015 exhibition programme has been announced. Among them are retrospectives of work by groundbreaking sculptors Alexander Calder and Barbara Hepworth, alongside masterpieces by pro...
An unrestrained eye
The Glass Archive presents a special three-part series – The unflinching lens
Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Daido Moriyama,
three eminent Japanese post-war photographers, have captured radical views of a c...
Art and the post-post-modern self
Entering the exhibition, Don’t You Know Who I Am?, one is immediately faced with an extensive arrangement of mis-matched chairs from various eras and in various styles. Abstract, slightly confusin...
Hypothesis for an Exhibition. Giulio Paolini at Dominique Lévy, New York
The title Hypothesis for an Exhibition is a clear reference to Paolini’s 1963 work Ipotesi Per Una Mostra, which Giulio Paolini produced for his first exhibition for La Tortuga gallery in Rome but remained unre...
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015
It’s not just a coincidence that the Whitechapel Gallery announces its landmark abstract art exhibition for 2015. The Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool are currently displaying exhibitions of two major abstract a...
Shadows of rebellion
In a series of rare interviews, Glass speaks to four of China’s greatest poets to discover the underground movement that inspired a nation.
I’m a poet, I’m the shadow of rebellion.
Let it be t...
Natural progression
The very first major solo exhibition is a turning point for any artist, though when it comes to Caroline Jane Harris, an artist whose innate instinct for what’s in the detail continues to astonish us, it’s a ...
Great balls of fire (and water)
Galerie Perrotin Hong Kong invited French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel to create site- specific sculptures. Othoniel is well known for his works of colourful giant glass “necklaces”— the Pavilion o...
Alexander McQueen AW14 ad campaign launched
When Alexander McQueen does dark romance at the hands of photographer Steven Klein, every party involved does dark romance. Making a star symbol of British model Edie Campbell, the AW14 campaign captures the wi...
How to create an artwork
Joe Zucker’s “process” art over the last 40 years has been eccentric, puzzling and uniquely appealing in its formal logic. Varying wildly in approach and technique, his work is concerned with ideas of art s...
Let’s hand it to Aristide – glover extraordinaire
Inspired by contemporary artists, science, architecture and nature, the glove company, Aristide, was founded in 2010 to transform the glove from being a simple accessory to a fashion masterpiece, by fusing beau...
Unfolding beauty
If contemporary art is the term that designates nowadays a specific mode of relating to the world, which is both critical-discursive and excessively attentive to the developments of the market, it seems that ...