A star is Berrington
Piping hot from the high of The Inbetweeners 2 UK premiere, Glass was fortunately able to be the first to hear the inside story from UK actor Emily Berrington, one of the cast in the new...
Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize 2014
Champagne Perrier-Jouët has announced the winner of the Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize 2014, Laura Youngson Coll. Laura was selected by the Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon members from a shortlist of ten candidates f...
The beauty of abstraction – Mondrian and his studios and Nasreen Mohamedi at Tate Liverpool
This summer, Tate Liverpool will exhibit Mondrian and his Studios and Nasreen Mohamedi, as part of Tate Liverpool’s summer 2014 season entitled Abstraction into the World; Modernity, abstraction and architectur...
Seeing is believing
You don’t have to travel very far these days before someone starts talking about the negative effects of TV, computer games, and the generally diminishing effects of technology on the imagination. “Where w...
Eat chicks for Easter
There’s a revolution happening in east London. A call for an end to the dude food movement of big meats and big potatoes, burgers the size of buildings and body parts so intimate it’s enough to ma...
Chiltern Street – London’s hottest strip
It's always a pleasure to explore Marylebone’s charming streets and stumble upon a hidden gem like Chiltern Street. Recognised as a highly desirable address, ever so quietly assured of it’s own class, style, an...
Brief encounters at the Pullman
In the first of a series of tales that begin from a Pullman Hotel in a number of locations, we explore the relationship of artist and patron and how a serendipitous meeting in a lobby or bar might...
The dirty F word
“Feminism” sometimes seems to have become an utterly filthy word in the last decade or so. For every person who believes that the 21st century woman is a feminist by definition of the time in which they were ...
Glass interviews Marianne Oldham the star of BBC WW1 drama The Crimson Field
Life does indeed resemble art when I interview Marianne Oldham in late December 2013. Having just wrapped from two months filming six one-hour episodes of the Sarah Phelps-penned drama The Crimson Fie...
Easter eggs from Nobu London
This Easter, Nobu London will give the classic chocolate egg a Michelin-star make-over. Executive head pastry chef Regis Cursan has created three Japanese designs in milk, white and dark chocolate, all from...
Glass talks with Tom Riley to share his experiences of playing the lead role in Da Vinci Demons
Kent-born, English actor Tom Riley spent his early years writing and directing plays before formally studying English literature and drama at the University of Birmingham. After graduating in 2002, Tom embarked...
Immortal melody
They are some of the greatest masterpieces ever written by humankind but what does the future hold for such specialist art forms as classical music and opera? What relevance do they hold in modern society and w...
Glass talks to British actor Laura Haddock about playing Da Vinci’s lover in the day, and finding solace in cooking at night
Playing the mistress – Glass talks to British actor Laura Haddock about playing Da Vinci's lover in the day, and finding solace in cooking at night Watching the actress Hayley Mills star in Pollyanna at an e...
The eyes have it – When it comes to eye-care a pair of cucumber slices just isn’t going to cut it, as Glass discovers …
Despite allegedly being “windows to the soul”, our eyes seem to take quite a fair amount of flack on a daily basis. Not getting enough sleep, dehydration and wearing contact lenses for far longer than...
Bamford braves new frontiers
“New growth – above all optimism”, and if you take Carole Bamford’s word for it, the recent developments that have unfolded at the benefit of her eponymous RTW label throughout March clearly attest to her decl...
Fables of fame – Glass speaks with up-and-coming Scottish actor James McArdle
Knowing from a very young age that he wanted to become an actor, Glaswegian James McArdle has been feverishly chasing his dream ever since. From this youthful conviction, he joined and became a commit...
Sensing spaces: architecture reimagined
Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is an exhibition showcasing seven different spaces from architects from around the world. The concept behind the exhibition is to see how people respon...
Up in the clouds
Amsterdam-based Dutch artist, Berndnaut Smilde has become quickly well-known in the art world for his Nimbus series of multi-disciplinary installations where using a smoke machine, and carefully adjus...
Through the eye of the beholder
“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.” Perhaps Hemingway had a little insight into our ongoing romance with semi-destruction in his rather poignant line ...
Against the trend
Fashion in any field is a peculiar thing because to really be at the forefront of it you almost have to be the one who’s totally ignoring it. Such is the enduring case of two of the most influential artists...
Plisskën festival 2014 line up announced
The line-up for Plissken music festival 2014 has just been announced. The annual festival, held in Athens, features a wide array of various music genres and aims to bring eclectic artists to Greece. The music e...