Mile High – Destination Sicily
When hearing the words “mile high”, one might think of clandestine lovemaking at dizzying altitudes en route to an exotic faraway destination. In the case of Dine Mile High, you can ditch the former idea up...
Rethinking China
“Study the past if you would define the future”
– Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
Modern China adores education. Learning for Chinese students constitutes an immemorial praxis of the highest cultural value. ...
Absolut Elyx Single Estate Feast at HIX
Elyx Martini
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it … I can resist everything but temptation.” Oscar Wilde took the words right out of our mouths when we heard about the new bespoke menu at...
N°5 Culture Chanel at Palais de Tokyo
Chanel N°5 is a perfume that travels afar. It crosses countries, literature and artistic movements, spanning all periods with knowing assurance. First launched in 1921, the perfume is a mere eight years away fr...
Catching Reykjavik’s cultural wave
Down a side street in downtown Reykjavik, a sharply dressed crowd is huddled inside an elegant wood-panelled room, masses of bodies packed sardine-like into the cosy space. Pencil-sketched portraits on the wa...
Portrait of a woman
Charlotte Rampling is one of fashion and cinema’s most enduring icons, immortalised by Helmut Newton, muse to Yohji Yamamoto, revered by legions of creative greats. Glass spends a day in Paris with a living l...
The actress
Olga Kurylenko has achieved the impossible. She has successfully established a serious acting career after achieving the mixed blessing of starring as a Bond girl in 2008’s Quantum of Solace. The question o...
Peace From the Bottom of My Art
Topical yet misunderstood, Iran has long been under the watchful eye of the media for its ongoing political unrest – thus people are led to think it is a place devoid of artistic expression. This couldn’t be fu...
Greats of grace
Clement Crisp, ballet critic for the Financial Times for over 40 years, talks to Glass about man’s most graceful form of expression and names the world’s greatest living ballerinas. From his London home, wher...
Girl on film
Eminent Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s latest muse Ni Ni has taken China by storm with her breathtaking performances. Glass photographed her in November for Glass issue 12, Joy, in Beijing.
Here is the exc...
The man who mistook his art for a Pirogue – Glass meets James Brett, the director of the Museum of Everything, the world’s international museum for undiscovered artists
The man who mistook his art for a Pirogue – Glass meets James Brett, the director of the Museum of Everything, the world’s international museum for undiscovered artists
“In tiny crevices and under dusty beds, ...
The man who mistook his art for a Pirogue
“In tiny crevices and under dusty beds, there lies a secret creativity by the unknowns of society. Unexpected, delicate, profound, this democratic work has inspired the world’s greatest artists and creative...
In the beginning was the end
I was told to open up drawers and let my hands wander. I raised an eyebrow at what this could mean for dreamthinkspeak’s latest production In The Beginning Was The End.
Drawing from Leonardo Da Vinci, Th...
Glass interviews writer Jeremy Reed — prophet of the radical and marginalised
“PART desperation, high on risk and big crowd anonymity,” visionary poet Jeremy Reed intones in a sotto voce yet raspy drawl upon Piccadilly Bongo, the album opener to Big City Dilemma, his first aural chancing...
Glass meets one of the most respected and renowned actors of our time, Vincent Cassel
The outsider – Glass meets one of the most respected and renowned actors of our time, Vincent Cassel
On a scorching August morning in Biarritz, France’s surfer paradise south-west coast, the promenade is thr...
From dust to dust
Quentin Tarantino, Hollywood’s perennial über-brat – but lest us forget, high craftsman of the hyperreal – throws up his “slavery epic” Django Unchained with little of his usual charismatic heft. This sadly...
In her image
On billboards, in the street and on the underground, in television adverts, music videos and from the front covers of newspapers and magazines, before we even get onto the internet, images of lust and sex a...
Still got it: Japan
C’mon, admit it. Japanese creativity bleeds heavily to all corners of art, fashion, design and architecture on a global scale, and more so than many other countries that are credited with a trendsetting nat...
Heavenly bodies
.Sir Patrick Moore, who passed away on Sunday, December 9, 2012, can claim to have had a fantastically interesting life. Not that he would have, as he was too modest. But on speaking to this hero of popular...
The Art of Writing
Long before characters were created, the ancient Chinese made different knots on ropes in order to record information. But ropes might easily be burnt and information lost, and as life gradually became more...
Another green world – Glass interviews film director Ethan Reed
“GUERILLA film maker, pornographer, activist, provocateur”, cult director Peter de Rome, “the unsung hero of gay underground filmmaking”, has lead a life as cinematic as the films he was obsessed with as a chi...