“The purpose of playing,” says Hamlet, “Is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” And so it is...
China’s preeminent playwright, Cao Yu, was a catalyst for introducing spoken theatre to his country and a revolutionary of dreams. Glass discovers more about theatre’s little known star
“The Sun Rises an...
London’s Regent Street is set to launch Fashion and Design month this September, allowing its many visitors to get closer to the creative talents that drive the retail strip forward.
This will see ...
Born from post-war socio-political shifts, visual poetry has been a movement of dramatic rise and quick decline in popularity. With the relatively new availability of written word through digital mediums, com...
“Ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen.” So goes the motto at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in China’s capital, Beijing. Chinese culture treats concepts such as lady-like and gentlemanly behaviour with not...
Jeff Wall exhibitions can feel rather mo
re like going to the cinema than to a gallery. Wall’s large scale photographic tableaux, famously displayed on huge light boxes, have their own veritable theatre, a bac...
”I am drawn to visceral reactions as well as the dark. I am interested in anatomy and want to make the inside come outside in my work,” says the London-based artist Ewa Wilczynski as we drink tea at Maison Bert...
This September, Beetles + Huxley will showcase a retrospective of Wang Qingsong’s works. The artist works primarily in photography and film, creating cinematic and darkly humorous works. They are known for thei...
Fashion is not all glitz and glamour. While its primary concern is to give us a veneer of beauty, fashion has real power for good. Beyond the runway, it can influence society, if it wants to, and fashion conglo...
The Flying Dutchman is based on the myth of a legendary ghost ship, doomed to sail the seas for all eternity. Which seemed at odds with what we were watching on the stage of the premiere of the latest produ...
On a scorching August morning in Biarritz, France’s surfer paradise South West coast, the promenade is thronging with holidaymakers as they idle their way to the beach. The Glass shoot team, consisting of a ph...
On the Norwegian island Sandhornøy, where the white Arctic beach meets the high mountains, the cultural project SALT takes place. SALT celebrates the Arctic culture and nature with this unique arts and musi...
With miles of beautiful beaches blended with bio-diverse lush rainforest vegetation, Borneo is a charming tropical island with varied geographical landscapes. Borneo is split between the Malaysian states o...
As we burgeon headlong into the 21st century, there seems to be a growing zeitgeist afoot: the slow but steady death of religious belief. Previously taboo, the once-hushed voice of atheism has recently begu...
Prompted by Savage Beauty, the recently closed block-busting retrospective of work by Alexander McQueen, at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, the British fashion filmmaker and photographer Nick Knight an...
According to surveys, between 55 per cent and 63 per cent of people want to set up their own business. But with 50 per cent of small companies failing in the first year, how do you guarantee your business’s sur...
Diane von Furstenberg has launched their new AW15 campaign film starring supermodel and DVF muse Karlie Kloss. Presenting the fashion brand’s new Secret Agent handbag as its centrepiece, the film, a collaborati...
The quintessential architect’s playground, The Glass House estate was built by Philip Johnson in a span of some 50 years, between 1949 and 1995. An ever-accumulating landscape that bridged the Ancient, Classica...
It would be easy to read painter Celina Teague’s new show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London, I think therefore I #, as a cynic’s dense iteration of the ephemerality and frivolity of social media and its...
The typical curator strives to create harmony amongst their artworks – they take a space, manipulate the artistry within it, and premeditate a navigable and digestible experience for the patron.
In discordan...
Dance is as indefinable as it is intangible. It is an intrinsic, visceral experience with no other purpose than to explore the limits of human capability and freedom of spirit, an innate and inexorabl...