Art - The Glass Magazine

June 15, 2014

Music is therapeutic in itself – it’s an explosive expression of emotions, and no matter what culture we are from, music does bring people together. This is precisely what happened over two nights on Plisskën F...

The colour of black and white

Bonnie Friend

June 12, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

“Inspiration comes from Iran’s society and also from the women around me,” says Afshin Pirhashemi, which seems a perfect and succinct way to describe the subject matter in his array of dramatic blac...

Reflections on PSYCHEDELIA, at CAN gallery, Athens

June 11, 2014

Based upon a much more minimalistic visual language, Reflections on PSYCHEDELIA at CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, explores issues of symbolism and spirituality such as faith, mythology, individual ...

Michael Craig-Martin at Gagosian Hong Kong

June 10, 2014

Gagosian Hong Kong will present recent paintings by acclaimed British conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin. Known for his “pictorial readymades”, Craig-Martin explores the perceptual tension between object, r...

512 Hours with Marina Abramović, Serpentine Gallery, London

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

June 10, 2014

Marina Abramović seduces everyone she meets. This is something one can tell even if one had never met her. Yesterday morning she presented her new performance piece at the Serpentine Gallery in London and she s...

Tom Bianchi Fire Island Pines: Polaroids 1975 – 1983

June 9, 2014

The Fahey/Klein Gallery will present the first exhibition from photographer Tom Bianchi’s newly released publication, Fire Island Pines: Polaroids 1975-1983 (Damiani, 2013). Bianchi’s Polaroid images capture th...

Gem talk with jewellery historian Amanda Triossi on Bulgari’s 130th anniversary

Livia Feltham

June 7, 2014

“The only word Elizabeth knows in Italian is ‘Bulgari,” said Richard Burton. If that comment wasn’t a precursor to turgid consumer culture and the messy squandered line between cultural capital and economic cap...

Glass reviews Richard Avedon, Gagosian, Athens

June 6, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Greece, News, Photography, Travel

Richard Avedon said, “Portraiture is performance. You can’t get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface (…) All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, cost...

A journey through cinema history – Twixt Two Worlds at Whitechapel Gallery, London

June 6, 2014

Pioneers of early cinema alongside leading contemporary artists are shown in a forthcoming show, the Twixt Two Worlds, at Whitechapel Gallery, this month. Willia...

China on my mind

Rowena Chiu

June 6, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Culture

Contemporary Chinese artists track the growing contradictions and conflicts between old and new China, testing the perimeters between traditional and contemporary art, whilst all the time explorin...

A new dimension

Bonnie Friend

June 5, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News, Photography, Travel

I don’t think there is anything quite as inspiring as the great outdoors, particularly when its multifaceted appeal isn’t just limited to the organic forms of the environment itself but also its h...

Graff presents the Rhythm Collection

Roberta Lister

June 4, 2014

The latest offering from fine jewellery house Graff is a dramatic and vivacious collection of standout pieces. Inspired by the energy of music, an immense sense of movement and rapture is captures within each p...

Inside the White Cube – Jack Greer, Alex da Corte and Augustus Thompson

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

June 4, 2014

The White Cube continues its presentation of the work of artists under the age of 40 from the US in the North Gallery of its Bermondsey space. This exhibition is part of Inside the White Cube, a programme prof...

The icon and the iconoclasts – celebrating the monogram

Roberta Lister

June 4, 2014

In the eyes of many, it’s the most instantly recognisable icon in fashion history. With the power to conjure a preconception in the most distant of fashion followers, the omnipresent Louis Vuitton monogram is u...

Frieze New York 2014

June 3, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

A spinoff from the original London contemporary art fair, Frieze New York pitched its tent in Randall’s Island for its third year this May. In a city saturated with art fairs, where people have seen it all ...

Nicholas Pope at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

June 2, 2014

Despite his disappearance from the art scene due to illness, one of the most notable contemporary artists of the British art world is back with a solo exhibition. Australian-born Nicholas Pope is curren...

Viewpoints of Venice: Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia presents Sguardi Incrociati a Venezia

Roberta Lister

May 31, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Italy, News

The third exhibition installment at Louis Vuitton’s Espace Venezia will present an cultural clash of the work of Japanese manga artist Jirô Taniguchi (b. 1957) and photographer and set designer Mariano Fortuny...

Alexander Calder at Gagosian Gallery, London and New York

May 29, 2014

Gagosian Gallery is presenting a two part exhibition of Alexander Calder’s gouache paintings in New York and London. Calder sought to capture the constant motion of life with kinetic sculptures, and is credited...

A fusion of fine art and luxury gaming – Alexandra Llewellyn

Amanda Bernstein

May 29, 2014