In the footsteps of Hiroshige

Peter Yeoh
Avant Art, Feature
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When I was back in London last summer, I came across Carl Randall’s painting, Mr Kitazawa’s Noodle Bar, Tokyo‚ while wandering through the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition. The way ...

Unlocking the secrets of yoga

Diana Kurakina
Culture, Feature
I never thought I’d be standing in warrior position, with my arms outstretched towards fields out in the distance, in the same place as where Lord Nelson once learnt the art of naval warfare. Perhaps a stat...
Li Bingbing. Photograph: Anders Brogaard. Dress, necklace and earrings by Gucci

Life is beautiful

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Feature
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 inclin...

One moment – now

Nico Kos Earle
Avant Art, Feature
“When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearin...

Design with a voice

Calvin Baillie
Feature
Katie Eary is a new designer with guts and gusto. Her work is demure, crafted and of true statement and strong intentions. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2008, Eary rose to the top of her clas...

The songbirds of China

Glass Archive
Archive, Culture, Feature
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The 1930s Shanghai’s Jazz scene rivalled those of Paris or New York  but it was the female vocalists who defined the era. Glass speaks to two living legends. In 1934, jazz composer and pianist Duke Ellingto...

A bohemian apogee

Benjamin Lovegrove
Feature
Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs emphatically wear their fuzz and glam influences upon their ruffled sleeves. Though to critique their stompy sonic platter this way would be pretty obtuse. Yes, début album, Cl...

ClerkenWell designed

Emilie Lemons
Feature, Glass Design
Now in its fourth year, Clerkenwell Design Week is bigger and better than ever and is stamping itself into the annual calendar as a major international festival of design. Clerkenwell is purported to have E...

Rethinking China

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Culture, Feature
“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. ...

Precious perfumery

Viola Levy
Feature
About 100 years ago, it was perceived to be a scandal to wear perfume directly on the skin rather than on one’s clothes. In the same way that latex was until very recently seen as a fetish fabric, so perfume ...

Chen Man

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Feature
What images does the city called Beijing call forth in our minds? Perhaps we would see the grandeur of the Forbidden City, or the sleek modernity of the CCTV headquarters. Maybe old memories of the hutongs ...

Portrait of a woman

Jules Wright
Don't Miss: Film, Feature
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...