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...
Great blazes
Coates and Scarry, as a gallery and as a team, is a labour of love. “Did you know that Chippy is my life-partner?” Richard Scarry asks. He is sitting in the sunny Bristol apartment he shares with his partner...
Colorado: big sky country
To be honest, what draw could Colorado, this square state carved out of middle America, offer that would warrant a trip all the way there? You’d be surprised. It will be a trip that will turn your prejudices ...
Artists design
When The Sculpture House first approached me to write about their work, I didn't hesitate in my decision to meet them. Their beautiful website, launched just three weeks ago, shows an immaculately curated ...
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...
Testino me out!
Mario Testino, the prolific chronicler of the famous and fashionable, is content to be a mere fashion photographer without needing to be revered as an artist as well. Yet he’s now being exalted as one, by cur...
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...
Beauty = Detail. Glass visits Denmark’s Det Glade Vanvid restaurant with its architect Sofie Ladefoged
Tucked away on the harbour of Aarhus, side by side with semi-industrial buildings and next to a fishmonger, the black painted timber-clad shed seems rather inconspicuous, anonymous even. Only its brass signage ...
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...
Recomposed
German-born British composer Max Richter has produced for Vashti Bunyan, soundtracked Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir and worked with Julian Opie and Wayne McGregor for The Royal Ballet.
His education began...
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...
Wanderland
I’m lying on my bed in my hotel room and there is a giant fish on the wall. I say fish, but in place of its tail it has the stem of a Champagne flute. These two seemingly mutually exclusive objects, printed o...
Wanderland
I’m lying on my bed in my hotel room and there is a giant fish on the wall. I say fish, but in place of its tail it has the stem of a Champagne flute. These two seemingly mutually exclusive objects, printed...
Capturing light
Hiroshi Sugimoto has made his name as a chronicler of time immemorial. His photography emerges from and lives in the interstices of personal and collective memory, as part of what he calls “the history of histo...
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...
Valentino Couture SS13
There has been much talk of late of a new era in fashion, both in couture and pret-a-porter. A desire for beautiful yet wearable clothes and the sea change in certain fashion houses, both in appointments and di...
House of leaves
Every house needs a foundation to stand on – this house of leaves is built on the David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) in London. Inside it, you dwell among artworks, intellectuals, resident curato...
No wallflower
Inside the Chinese film industry, only a lucky few girls go far beyond simply being well-known in China. But those who are selected by legendary director Zhang Yimou, one of the few directors to achieve int...
East meets West London
Tucked away behind London’s Bayswater station, La Suite West hotel is housed in one of those buildings conjured up in the mind of Americans when they imagine our fair city. On a quiet street of enormous tow...
Passion for purity
“White is the most wonderful colour because within it you can see all the colours of the rainbow … The whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and that which is changi...