When style is a woman
“When Hong Kong is a woman, she stands in emancipation, fans her lashes, highlights her lines, clasping her silver handbag under a coat of grey. dismantles an entire truth – Hong Kong, a woman of contrasts...
Oklahoma City rises again
The first time I boarded an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Oklahoma City eight years ago, it was half empty and exclusively full of men, rugged faces mostly hidden behind dusty ten gallon hats. Eac...
Just for now – Glass discovers more about the London-based Greek poet and musician Sitron Panopoulos
Poetry is a much abused and misunderstood medium. And it is a matter of some sadness, to me at least, that the stagnant pond that passes for London's poetry scene is in the main filled with soi-disant poets who...
Runway versus presentation – Burberry and Pringle
Throughout last year's international fashion weeks we have witnessed different brands appropriate contrasting strategies for showing off their new collections. Some going all out with grand runway shows in ...
Still got it: Cannes
Playing host to numerous arts festivals held in and around the sun-drenched La Croisette, Cannes has sustained an undisputed reputation as the French Riviera’s most glamorous and popular hotspots. Not surpr...
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...