Avant Art

March 27, 2015

American artist Michelle Stuart will showcase an exhibition of recent works at London’s Parafin gallery. Known for her synthesis of Land Art, drawing, and sculpture, Stuart’s work explores the overlapping of na...

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye selects pieces for Whitechapel Gallery’s new show

March 25, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, News

Turner Prize-nominated Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is assistant curating an exhibition this spring at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Running now through mid-June, the presentation, titled Natures, Natural and Unnatura...

Ecuadorian artist Oscar Santillan new show at Copperfield Gallery, London

March 25, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, London, News, Travel

Oscar Santillan brings a new level of commitment to the rampant physicality of contemporary art. The self-taught Ecuadorian artist, for his first UK solo exhibit, will scale England’s highest point at Scafell P...

Re-envisioning kitsch

March 25, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

The London-based, Serbian-born artist Misha Milovanovich's latest series of works is a collection of drawings that depict found objects floating amongst sepia clouds. The curio are supposedly random, each a...

Ralph Pucci – The Art of the Mannequin at Museum of Arts and Design

March 24, 2015

Avant Art, Culture

New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design presents a pioneering exhibition, the first in a museum to focus on mannequin design. The retrospective, of sorts, highlights the industry and innovation of New York-ba...

Dreams of literature – In a celebration of the enduring pleasure of literature, Glass speaks to four prominent and varied voices on its place in the future

Glass Archive

March 20, 2015

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Dreams of literature – In a celebration of the enduring pleasure of literature, Glass speaks to four prominent and varied voices on its place in the future Literature has a remarkable gift. It touches each o...

Susan Sarandon honoured at Hong Kong’s Art Basel

Kim Ing

March 19, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Film, News

The Liberatum Cultural Honour was awarded to Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandan at a dinner hosted at Upper House, Hong Kong, this week. Celebrating the actress’ outstanding contribu...

The art and artifice of Man Ray – Glass looks at the painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, poet, philosopher

Lauren Weinberg

March 6, 2015

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The art and artifice of Man Ray – Glass looks at the painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, poet, philosopher Painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, poet, philosopher – Man Ray was the quintessenti...

Small but fine – Glass reviews Pin Up! at pavlov’s dog, Berlin

Ruvi Simmons

March 5, 2015

Avant Art, Feature

Small but fine – Glass reviews Pin Up! at pavlov’s dog, Berlin On opening night, it is obvious even from the end of Bergstrasse that something is going on at pavlov’s dog (sic). People are spilling from the ...

Image and time

Xenia Founta

March 4, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Glass visited the Greek Film Archive in Athens to attend Image and Time, Andrei Tarkovsky, a comprehensive retrospective covering the entire filmography of the eminent Russian filmmaker. A highlight of t...

Shiraga’s “foot paintings” exhibited at Mnuchin Gallery

March 2, 2015

Gutai artists, particularly Kazuo Shiraga, have been all over the art gallery world this year. Mnuchin Gallery jumps on this bandwagon with its latest exhibition of major paintings by Shiraga, tracing the evolu...

The Fine Arts Society at Art Central Hong Kong

March 1, 2015

A testament to the city’s importance to the international art collecting community, Art Central Hong Kong is the latest edition to the art fair calendar. Located just a ten minute walk away from Art Basel Hong ...

Dream-weaver – the surreal eye. Glass speaks to the extraordinary photographer Bill Silano

Glass Archive

February 27, 2015

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Dream-weaver – the surreal eye. Glass speaks to the extraordinary photographer Bill Silano The extraordinary work of Bill Silano marked a new era in fashion photography, but having shied away from the spotli...

Harlem’s Fashion Row: NYC’s multi-cultural arts and fashion platform

February 26, 2015

Avant Art, Jewellery and Watches

In a continuation of Glass’s celebration of the diverse and culture-rich Harlem neighbourhood last month, we now turn to its fashion scene and the illustrious organization Harlem's Fashion Row. As New York F...

Sam Roddick’s Hidden Within – Eroticism Through a Critical Lens

February 26, 2015

“Sex has been sold into consumerism,” says Sam Roddick. And she should know. The lifelong activist and artist is a former businesswoman, with a penchant for the sexy. She opened her ethical erotic lifestyle bus...

Misogyny, madness and old age – Glass reviews the Goya exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery opening today

Lilian Pizzichini

February 26, 2015

Avant Art, Feature

Misogyny, madness and old age – Glass reviews the Goya exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery opening today In 1793, after a dangerous illness, the celebrated court painter, Francisco Goya, became profoundly de...

Bridget Riley, Prints 1962-2015, opens at Sims Reed Gallery

Stephanie Clair

February 24, 2015

After exhibiting her work for a number of years, Sims Reed Gallery has for the first time curated a comprehensive exhibition of the innovative post-war artist Bridget Riley. Unmistakably abstract, Riley’s wo...

Ann Veronica Janssens’ debut during Hong Kong’s Art Basel

Kim Ing

February 24, 2015

Five selected sculptures from the British-born contemporary artist Ann Veronica Janssens will arrive at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery next month, in time for Hong Kong’s Art Basel week. This solo exhibition marks ...

A Haunted Art Dollhouse at Luxembourg & Dayan

February 20, 2015