Life is beautiful
Frankly speaking, interviewing someone famous is always a challenge. It is hard to get something new, deep or meaningful when they have had so many experiences but too little time, and perhaps little inclinatio...
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,...
Sloane Street celebrates the beauty of bespoke
Drowning under today’s fast-fashion culture of clothing consumption, we learn to truly appreciate the beauty of a personal piece. A made-to-measure item is a rare gem which commands admiration. This year, such ...
(re)Viewing 100 Contemporary Architects
“An architecture book is read three times.” At least that’s what one of my professors used to say, while I was doing my undergraduate studies at the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico. Th...
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 ...
Royal returns
Even among Scandinavian design classics we find changing fashions and fads. Pieces of furniture that have been forgotten will suddenly become the latest "new" discovery. A Classic situation!
Th...
Glass interviews artist John Baldessari one of the most respected contemporary artists of the last five decades
Pure beauty – Wry, rebellious and utterly revered, John Baldessari
is one of the most respected contemporary artists of the last five decades, but as Glass discovers, it is his wholehearted disregard for such ...
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...
Who I am – Glass talks identity to emerging British actor John Boyega
The precociously talented young British actor John Boyega made his film debut in 2011 starring in the critically acclaimed UK hit Attack the Block. Since then he’s gone on to play a variety of roles including B...
Christmas in the Cameron Highlands
It's a cool November evening in the Cameron Highlands and Christmas has come early. We are gathered around the piano in the festive warmth of the Jim Thompson Tea Room, at the luxury Cameron Highlands Resor...
Finding my voice – Glass interviews British actor James Norton
James Norton is a part of the new wave of British actors that’s slowly but surely knocking at the door of the acting world. From 2009, his career seems to have hit the ground running; with wor...
An act of Roth – Glass talks to one of the UK’s most exciting young actors: Jack Roth
AFTER missing out on a place at university and missing the auditions for drama school, Jack Roth was told he should go and audition for Catford Broadway Theatre’s A Clockwork Orange, by a set designer...
A new kid in Knightsbridge – Glass reviews the Brompton Asian Brasserie
There’s never been a good reason to turn left out of Harrods. The stretch of shops that joins Knightsbridge to South Kensington has historically only hosted overpriced kitchen shops or touri...
Shakespearification
Prepare to be Shakespearified. Now I know that isn’t a word – yet – but changes are afoot at the RSC and perhaps we need a new term to celebrate them. This week, Richard II, starring David Tennant, will be ...
Dreaming in colour
They captured the essence of what it means to be human and made magic of the everyday. Some of the most important photographers to have ever picked up a camera speak to Glass. Reportage photography is, in its...
Glass talks to Annabelle Wallis about her career-defining appearance in Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders
When Annabelle Wallis walks into the bar in the first episode of Peaky Blinders, she illuminates the dank post-WW I Birmingham set like a white flag flying above the parapet – it is a career-defining momen...
Evanescent interpretation
Over the 30 years spanning his career, Philip-Lorca diCorcia has become one of the most influential photographers in the 21st century, credited for pioneering the “fictional” approach in contemporary photogra...
Beauty in Brief – Autumn
Scented Delights
WHILE our hearts sink as the autumn rain beats on the window panes, Cire Trudon’s latest candle Bartolomé transports us to the tropics. Taking inspiration from a 16th Century Spani...
Where art thou? Glass reviews Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces
Where art thou? Glass reviews Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces – a stunning new book offers unique insights into the creative world of America’s most celebrated artists
The artist’s studio is th...
Architecture in China – speed, change, movement and dynamism!
Speed! – By David Gianotten, partner in charge of OMA, Asia
Building fast has characterised the architectural scene of China since the country adopted a more open approach to the rest of the world in the l...
La vie en rose
“We live in the times we do, and nothing is sillier than to turn one’s back on them.” Those are the insightful words of one of the most famous couturiers who ever lived, and his words seem more relevant n...