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This February, Luxembourg & Dayan London, highlights Lucien Freud’s unique creative vision by exhibiting two key nude portraits by the late artist.
If there is one thing Lucien Freud is known for, as...
Rachel Whiteread Opens New show at the Gagosian Gallery, Geneva
When Rachel Whiteread exhibits her work it isn’t just about what’s there, it’s also about what’s not. It is her careful consideration of negative space that is her signature, and a motif that continues in her l...
He Xiangyu – Inside the White Cube
Renown for his provocative work spanning across a wide range of media, Chinese contemporary artist He Xiangyu will present his first UK exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey. Inside the White Cube is a programme ...
M+ receives major donation from Chinese art collector Guan Yi
Hong Kong’s future museum for visual culture M+ has received a donation of 37 works of Chinese contemporary art by Guan Yi, one of the region’s most prominent collectors. Upon opening in 2017, M+ will house 20t...
Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Hyundai Motor and Tate have just announced a major long-term partnership, the longest initial commitment from a corporate sponsor in Tate’s history. Commencing in Autumn 2015 and confirmed until 2025, the partn...
Romantic fallacies
That being an artist is a romantic undertaking still holds true for many; but not Luc Tuymans, whose thinly-smeared, off-register and elusively referential images oscillate between what is depicted and a sh...
London International Mime Festival – Where boundaries between reality and the imagination are merged
This year marks the 38th year of the London International Mime Festival. With contributions from all over the globe including an Italian take on James Joyce’s renowned 1914 work The Dead from The Cit...
Bharti Kher: Misdemeanours at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
Contemporary artist Bharti Kher will present her first major solo exhibition in Asia at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. Representing a survey of Kher’s work from the early 2000s to the present, Misdemeanou...
Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps at Gagosian Hong Kong
As one of the most celebrated contemporary architects, Frank Gehry's inspiring buildings and fascinating designs are hallmarks of today's urban landscape. In addition to architecture, Gehry is also known for hi...
Xu Zhen and Ji Dachun at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art
To start the 2014 programme, the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art is showcasing two major solo exhibitions by Chinese artists Xu Zhen and Ji Dachun.
A MadeIn Company Production by Xu Zhen is a mid-career r...
Oklahoma City rises again
The first time I boarded an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Oklahoma City eight years ago, it was half empty and exclusively full of men, rugged faces mostly hidden behind dusty ten gallon hats. Eac...
Recipe for a Painter – Mr Chow aka Zhou Yinghua
Michael Chow, the man behind Mr Chow restaurants across the world, will present his first ever solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Pearl Lam Galleries. Painting under his Chinese name Zhou Yinghua, the exhibition i...
The luckiest man alive – Glass interviews artist Alex Echo
The work of artist Alex Echo – vibrant abstracts with thick layers of paint – literally drip off the canvas. Taking inspiration from various sources Impressionism, the Pre-Raphaelites and minimalism,...
Christmas greetings from Glass
Christmas greetings to all our readers from everyone at Glass Magazine. Happy Holidays!
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Portraying the Revolution – Glass is granted an intimate view of Russian Art Week, London
“...Blessed are those who visited this world
In moments of its destination.”
Fyodr Tyutchev, Cicero (1830)
Last month, I was given an insider’s taste of Russian Art Week, a bi-annual event which brings ...
Cutting edge art
The Japanese artist Yutaka Sone is presently in London showcasing his latest exhibition, Sculpture, at the highly respected David Zwirner gallery, which displays the wide variety of his sculpting w...
When you laugh, the world laughs with you
As a student during the 1990s, Yue Minjun found himself in a deeply disillusioned China. In the wake of Tiananmen Square, China’s artistic community was shaken to the core. From the trauma of this period em...
Sensuous territories of the mind
Rachel Clark’s intimate and yet coolly-objective paintings have the power to draw you in and take you on an emotional journey. In figurative art, external reference points are easier to read. But in abstrac...
Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl unveiled at Delaire Graff Estate, South Africa
Vladimir Tretchikoff’s iconic painting Chinese Girl has been unveiled at Delaire Graff Estate in South Africa by Ms Pon-su-san, who was the model for the original painting.
The piece, which is said to be one...
Art Basel: Audemars Piguet reveal Curiosity by Kolkoz
At Art Basel in Miami Beach, Miami’s Mayor Tomás Regalado unveiled Curiosity by French duo Kolkoz an ambitious installation piece created for Art Basel. Presented by Audemars Piguet and Galerie Perrotin, ‘Curi...
Artistry and Integrity
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An oil-on-canvas painting of a pair of macaws leans against the wall of a dim classroom in Chengdu province’s Hua Xin Vocational College. The student artist who painted them is Jing Chao, a young man in hi...