Art - The Glass Magazine

The Call of the Wild: THRIVE for Save Wild Tigers Private View

May 15, 2014

You’d of had a hard time not being wooed by the wild artwork, accompanied rather well with a grasping tribal soundtrack, on show on Wednesday evening at the THRIVE exhibition private view launch party which to...

The sweetness outside of time

Ruvi Simmons

May 15, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

In 1969, Dorothy Iannone and her lover, Swiss artist Dieter Roth, were scheduled to participate in Ausstellung der Freunde, an exhibition of contemporaries in Kunsthalle Bern. Prior to the opening, however,...

The 2014 Börse Photography Prize winner is announced

Xenia Founta

May 14, 2014

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The Irish artist Richard Mosse has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 announced this week at the Photographers Gallery. Mosse was nominated for the prize for his show, The Enclave, which was exhibite...

Museum of Art and Design presents the first exhibition to explore jewellery and photography

Louise Lui

May 14, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Beauty, Culture, Design, Fashion, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Design, Jewellery and Watches, News, Photography

The Museum of Art and Design in New York City will present a new exhibition to examine the interplay between photography and jewellery. Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography will be the first museum exhib...

Putting art first – Nelson Santos brings fashion and art together

Bonnie Friend

May 13, 2014

Art, Fashion, Feature

To have one creative career and achieve success is remarkable, to have two is practically unheard of – but for Nelson Santos that’s exactly what’s happening. Having made his name as a fashion designer, he has a...

Frieze New York 2014 – the Glass review

Louise Lui

May 12, 2014

Avant Art, News

Frieze Art Fair returned to New York City’s Randall’s Island for a third consecutive year. While 190 galleries from all over the world participated, the contemporary art fair was largely a North Atlantic affair...

Hauser and Wirth present On the Fabric of the Human Body at Frieze New York

Louise Lui

May 11, 2014

Avant Art, News

The body has been a consistently prominent theme throughout art, and acts as a vehicle of exploration and expression for much of contemporary art today. At Frieze New York this year, Hauser and Wirth will prese...

A thousand lives by picture

Erik Stein

May 9, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Her legendary subjects are too numerous to mention. From Debbie Harry on the roof of her New York apartment, to Bob Marley on tour, to intimate portraits of the likes of WH Auden and William Burroughs, Sim...

Cy Twombly’s Things — Book signing with author Kate Nesin today

Louise Lui

May 8, 2014

Avant Art, News

To celebrate the release of Cy Twombly’s Things, Gagosian Shop will hold a talk and book signing with author Kate Nesin. Cy Twombly (1928-2011) is widely regarded as one of the most influential American artist...

Turner Prize 2014 shortlist announced

Xenia Founta

May 7, 2014

Avant Art, News

The nominees for the Turner Prize 2014 have been unveiled at the Tate Britain. The shortlisted artists, competing for the 30th Turner Prize, are Duncan Campbell, James Richards, Ciara Phillips and Tris Vonna-Mi...

Cracknrolla …

Caroline Simpson

May 7, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Glass is delighted to present the latest fashion film by Mitja Bozic. The Slovenian-born director says that the inspiration for Cracknrolla …were the graphic shapes found in this protected area on the coast of ...

Stepping Up for Art

Louise Lui

May 6, 2014

Avant Art, News

In collaboration with Charlotte Olympia and Gagosian Gallery, Studio in a School presents Stepping Up for Art. This fashion and art exhibition directly benefits Studio in a School’s ongoing mission to provide v...

Ed Ruscha in New York City

Louise Lui

May 6, 2014

Avant Art, News

Gagosian will present three separate exhibitions and projects by Ed Ruscha in New York, including his participation in Frieze New York with a series of recent paintings. On May 6, Ruscha’s first public commi...

The Frenchman, the legacy, his teddy-bear and her cone brassiere

Livia Feltham

May 6, 2014

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You don’t go to a Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition just for the clothes. But my, aren’t they just something else? And upon entering the no- holds-barred Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From The Sidewalk to ...

Gagosian New York presents Shooters by Harmony Korine

Louise Lui

May 5, 2014

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Gagosian New York will present Shooters, an exhibition of recent paintings by Harmony Korine. Korine’s films merge fiction and reality, shaky footage with precise editing, seen in Kids (1995) and Spring Breaker...

Against the clock

Bonnie Friend

May 5, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Art doesn’t have to be pretty, it doesn’t even have to be something that you like, but it’s a pretty universally acknowledged truth that for art to be successful it has to be inspiring, none more ...

Edmund de Waal Book Signing

Louise Lui

May 4, 2014

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To celebrate the release of Edmund De Waal, Gagosian Shop will be holding a book signing with the artist himself this week. Published by Phaidon, the fully illustrated volume presents a complete survey of de Wa...

A record of what we are

Glass Archive

May 2, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Culture, Feature

“We are now making history, and the sun picture supplies the means of passing down a record of what we are, and what we have achieved in this 19th century …” John Thomson, 1891. Such a statement could on...

Luxembourg and Dayan presents The Shaped Canvas, Revisited

Louise Lui

May 1, 2014

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Luxembourg and Dayan presents The Shaped Canvas, Revisited In the early 1960s, the shaped canvas emerged as a new form of abstract painting which reflected the postwar spirit of speed and dynamism. Described...

It’s a kind of magic

Bonnie Friend

May 1, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

On a chilly evening, hopefully one of the last remaining few, I sat drinking copious amount of tea with Jonny Briggs. This is a man with whom conversation will never need alcoholic lubrication. To see the wor...

Shao Yen SS14: Dimension

Roberta Lister

April 30, 2014

Avant Art, News

Inspired by elements of Cubism and Chinese pictographic characters, Shao Yen presents Dimension – a conceptual mini-film to accompany his hyper-bright SS14 line. Set in the Barbican art complex, London, the fil...