Art - The Glass Magazine

The failure of will – the dark side of human mind

April 1, 2014

Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, presents Stelios Karamanolis’ new exhibition, The Failure of Will. The artist’s solo show breaks away from the representation of the reality, approaches and reflects on c...

Sensing spaces: architecture reimagined

Harriet Smith

March 31, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Design

Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is an exhibition showcasing seven different spaces from architects from around the world. The concept behind the exhibition is to see how people respon...

A life devoted to art – Malevich at Tate Modern

Xenia Founta

March 28, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

Tate Modern reveals the multi-faceted works of Kazimir Malevich in a forthcoming show to open in July. This exhibition journeys retrospectively into the almost 25-year long career of the Russian artist from hi...

Up in the clouds

Justin van Vliet

March 28, 2014

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

Amsterdam-based Dutch artist, Berndnaut Smilde has become quickly well-known in the art world for his Nimbus series of multi-disciplinary installations where using a smoke machine, and carefully adjus...

Through the eye of the beholder

Bonnie Friend

March 27, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, News

“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.” Perhaps Hemingway had a little insight into our ongoing romance with semi-destruction in his rather poignant line ...

Against the trend

Bonnie Friend

March 26, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Fashion in any field is a peculiar thing because to really be at the forefront of it you almost have to be the one who’s totally ignoring it. Such is the enduring case of two of the most influential artists...

First exhibition dedicated to Raymond Pettibon’s Surfers

Louise Lui

March 25, 2014

Avant Art, News

Venus Over Manhattan will present the first exhibition dedicated to Raymond Pettibon’s acclaimed “surfer paintings”. Are Your Motives Pure? brings together 40 works from 1987-2012, and includes small, monochrom...

Maria Zahle at the Rooftop Cafe, London Bridge

Calvin Baillie

March 24, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Dining

Floating out at sea like a message in a bottle the understated and hidden Rooftop Cafe confidently bobs along in London Bridge beside the Giant massive ship that is HMS The Shard. Akin to a siren calling to her...

Leading lights

Xenia Founta

March 24, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

Tate Britain has announced its spring season of BP Spotlights. BP Spotlights are displays of works from the Tate collection that explore particular themes or subjects or focus on the work of one artist. Thi...

Spiritual as Mountains at Pearl Lam Galleries

Louise Lui

March 22, 2014

Avant Art, News

Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong will present Spiritual as Mountains, a group exhibition of contemporary Chinese art inspired by the spirituality of nature and traditional Chinese culture. Curated by Wang Chunchen...

Battle off the canvas

Bonnie Friend

March 21, 2014

Avant Art

The battles for social ideals have always been hard won, and that is if you deem them to have been won at all. Whatever stage you consider the society around you to be at, these are not wars that ...

Simply does it

Bonnie Friend

March 19, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Talents, News

In a world of perpetual information, constant conversation, and complex debate, it is an unbridled breath of fresh air and a proverbial sigh of relief to come across someone whose view liberates you from th...

Artistic transgressor

Peter Yeoh

March 14, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

The polymorphous art of Sterling Ruby embraces paradox, confounds expectations, and defies easy categorisation. Yet at the same time his creative output partakes of and helps establish new paradigms for definin...

Private collection of African Tribal Art in Hong Kong

Louise Lui

March 12, 2014

Avant Art, News

For the first time in Hong Kong, a private collection of original West African art pieces will be showcased. Presented by Harbour of Art, Les Arts Premiers features ritual figures and masks from the Fang, Mambi...

Self-conscious

Xenia Founta

March 12, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Greece

This month the Frances Rich School of Fine Art and Performing Arts of DEREE, in Athens present a unique and very topical exhibition related to the pervasiveness of technological media in our lives. The e...

Gold Vein: Delfina Delettrez AW14

Roberta Lister

March 11, 2014

Avant Art, Design, Don't Miss: Film, Fashion, Feature, Jewellery and Watches, News, Shopping Guide

Fine jeweller Delfina Delettrez presents Gold Vein – a suitably surreal offering for AW14. Moving on from her previous work with diamonds, the collection explores the simple beauty of precious coloured stones w...

Find your talisman before it vanishes

Nico Kos Earle

March 11, 2014

Avant Art

It’s official – Art14 rocks. You just had to step inside the throng of buyers, dealers and artists all bopping their way into the main hall at Olympia to the sound of happy house to feel it. Everyone was th...

HYSTERIA show of new work opens in Soho, London

Caroline Simpson

March 9, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, News

Opening next week in one of Glass Magazine’s favourite Soho haunts, the exquisite French patisserie Maison Bertaux, all-female art collective HYSTERIA show their latest collection of work alongside that of inte...

Be original or die

Nicola Kavanagh

March 7, 2014

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

At Glass we have always prided ourselves on championing the forgotten pioneers of fashion and photography but there can be none greater than Madame Yevonde. Born Yevonde Thilone Cumbers in 1893, a...

Glass celebrates the launch of ART14 with Geoff Leong at Boujis

Livia Feltham

March 5, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

On Thursday night at Boujis nightclub in South Kensington, along with Geoff Leong, Glass raised a frosted, and much deserved, glass of the smoothest vodka to celebrate the launch of the ART14 artfair. The swan...

A Tale of Two Endings – Art from the past contemplates the future at La Fine di Dio, a new show at the Gagosian Gallery, London

Bonnie Friend

March 5, 2014

Avant Art

Walk into a stark, white room at Gagosian gallery on Davies Street, and you will be greeted by a smartly dressed little boy kneeling in front of a Pepto-Bismol pink, two dimensional, giant egg, hu...