Avant Art - The Glass Magazine

Glass interviews Chinese artist Liu Bolin

October 18, 2019

Glass speaks to the art world’s master of disguise, Liu Bolin, following the Chinese artist’s latest intervention in Pyongyang LUI BOLIN is an avid observer of contemporary society and the urban environment, e...

Glass goes to Beyond the Streets – a graffiti and street art exhibition in Brooklyn, New York City

Emily Rae Pellerin

July 12, 2019

Art, Avant Art, Exhibitions, Feature

STREET art has always been political. A site-specific middle finger to The Man, a come-one-come-all exhibitionism, communicating for and on behalf of the populous. In bed with graffiti and guerrilla art, the st...

GUCCI Maurizio Cattelan The Artist is Present

Gucci and Maurizio Cattelan present Shanghai exhibition, The Artist is Present

Hannah Valentine

September 18, 2018

Art, Avant Art, Culture, News

A COLLABORATION between GUCCI’s Creative Director Alessandro Michele and artist Maurizio Cattelan will see a new exhibition open at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai on October 10. The exhibition, The Artist is Pre...

New York City’s ABXY Gallery presents It’s A Jungle Out Here by Corey Wash

Emily Rae Pellerin

March 14, 2018

Art, Avant Art, Feature

“I’M always evolving my ideas,” says artist Corey Wash. She’s speaking to the vision that brought about The Process Room, which is the entry point to her new show, an experience-triptych titled It’s a Jungle Ou...

Martin Boyce opens new Tate Britain installation

Faye Leung

January 24, 2018

Art, Avant Art, News

TURNER prize winner Martin Boyce has been commissioned to create an installation outside Tate Britain which was unveiled today. Situated between the Clore Gallery (which holds JMW Turner’s paintings) and the Cl...

Floating Urban Slime/Sublime: Opening Night at Art Gallery Miyauchi

Louise Lui

December 21, 2017

Art, Avant Art, Exhibitions, Feature

THE opening of Floating Urban Slime/Sublime at Art Gallery Miyauchi was ushered in with a programme of performance events and talks. The first event last month was a performance featuring an abstract garment sp...

Yutaka Inagawa Floating Slime Story feature image

Floating Urban Slime/Sublime Exhibition opens at Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima

Louise Lui

November 21, 2017

Art, Avant Art, Feature, Photography

THROUGHOUT modern history, countless artists, writers and philosophers have sought to break free from “linear” and “logical” modes of thought in their own ways. There is a certain allure in the idea of accessin...

Burberry 'Here We Are' Exhibition in Hong Kong

Burberry brings the Here We Are exhibition to Hong Kong

Joseph Furness

November 14, 2017

Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Feature

THE Burberry Here We Are exhibition has travelled cross-continent from its original home of the Old Sessions House in Clerkenwel,l London, across to Hong Kong, bringing an insight into British culture. Located ...

UNIT9 presents Alice Anderson: Between Surfaces

Allie Nawrat

September 27, 2017

Art, Avant Art, News

UNIT9 presents Alice Anderson’s new exhibition Between Surfaces curated by Rowena Chiu. The exhibition presents an installation of Anderson's abstract sculpture where architectural elements in the form of light...

Glass previews exhibition – Floating Urban Slime/Sublime

Louise Lui

September 27, 2017

Art, Avant Art, Exhibitions, Feature

COMING soon ... Floating Urban Slime / Sublime, a contemporary, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary project led by Yutaka Inagawa. Participating practitioners are: Sze Yang Boo James Brooks, Hua Kuan Chen S...

Twyla x i am OTHER release limited edition collection

Amrit Chana

July 25, 2017

Avant Art, News

PHARRELL Williams and his multi-media creative company, i am OTHER, is collaborating with Twyla – a brand which works with artists to offer limited-edition pieces you simple cannot find anywhere. The collection...

Glass is the official media partner for DR/OP: Beyond Boundaries Art Show, Singapore

Emily Rae Pellerin

June 16, 2017

Art, Avant Art, Feature, Glass Celebrates

GLASS magazine is proud to announce its position as the official media partner for DR/OP: Beyond Boundaries, an art show opening this August in Singapore. Japanese artist and curator Yutaka Inagawa leads the ar...

Glass visits Robert Therrien’s enchanting exhibition of works from 1975-1995 at Parasol Unit

Rowena Chiu

November 23, 2016

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Through The Looking Glass – Glass visits Robert Therrien’s enchanting exhibition of works from 1975-1995 at Parasol Unit No title (blue oval), 1983. Photograph: Douglas M Parker Studio A PAINTED w...

NYC Gagosian Gallery Downtown Exhibits Georg Baselitz

Emily Rae Pellerin

October 5, 2016

Art, Avant Art, Culture, News

IT’S walking into a room pregnant with portent – something ominous lingers unspoken between his giant canvases and monolithic sculptures. Georg Baselitz’s current show at New York City’s Gagosian Gallery 21st S...

Glass partners with Autistica in the lead up to Frieze London 2016

Livia Feltham

September 27, 2016

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, News, Travel

In the run up to World Mental Health Day next month, UK’s leading autism research charity and Deutsche Bank’s Charity of the Year Autistica will explore the complexity of the mind and how mental health issues a...

Only Connect opens new show DR/OP in Onomichi, Hiroshima

Emily Rae Pellerin

May 16, 2016

Art, Avant Art, News

Only Connect opens new show DR/OP in Onomichi, Hiroshima ONLY CONNECT, the understated curatorial powerhouse based in Onomichi, Japan (whose healthily unruly inaugural show Dogs in a Room Glass featured last...

Room for Play – Glass reviews Playroom a curatorial project by Olga MacKenzie and Sasha Gallitzine

Yasmin Bilbeisi

April 6, 2016

Avant Art, Feature

THE IKEA catalogue has a circulation double of the Bible. Thus it is not so surprising that the a representative from the company said the following at the Guardian Sustainable Business Debate, “If we look on a...

LOVE HZ at Lights of Soho, London

Livia Feltham

February 1, 2016

Art, Avant Art, News

Lights of Soho (LOS), London’s light art gallery, launched their Valentine’s Day show, the the love-induced LOVE HZ (hertz – hurts get it?), at their gallery on Brewer Street. The immersive gallery space at Li...

Interior designers the Campana Brothers collaborate with shoe-brand Melissa for Frieze

Livia Feltham

November 5, 2015

Avant Art, Glass Design, News

During the Frieze Art Fair, London, last month Brazilian interior designers the Campana Brothers, united with fellow Brazilians the equally idiosyncratic shoe brand Melissa, to create Barocco. This collaboroati...

Art as shelter at The House of St Barnabas

Stephanie Clair

September 25, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Looking for, and exploring how language develops through interactions has acted as the cornerstone for Hester Reeve’s contribution to this year’s Art Social event at The House of St Barnabas. Centred on Mas...

Restless preoccupations

Emily Rae Pellerin

September 22, 2015

Asia, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Malaysia, Photography

Glass Interviews Yutaka Inagawa on his Malaysian solo show and His restless preoccupation with intersecting mediums, cultural identities Japanese photomontage artist Yutaka Inagawa’s solo show in Kuala L...