As August closes we review what Glass has seen and covered this warm and wet Autumn.

Highlights have been:

We visited the Netherlands, by way of the Shanghai Expo and the work of the equally unusual artist and architect John Kormeling. His projects are idealized, filled with humor and also often impractical. At the world exhibition Kormeling has had the freedom extend his vision to full capacity.

From China we travelled to Russia to find not humour, but a distinct curtailing of artistic expression where Glass examines the recent scandal surrounding the Forbidden Art exhibition. Organizers of the show have been charged with inciting religious hatred by putting controversial figures on display. We examine where this censorship may take us.

However this world does seem a seductive pull for other creatives and we examined the endeavours of fashion designers, Helmut Lang,Hussein Chalayan, Shalimar perfumers Guerlain and the inimitable Carlo Brandelli’s stellar career so far in the fine art arena. Our exclusive video-editorials from the talented likes of Nicole Nodland (for Chanel), Victor De Mello, Bruno Centofanti , Mari Sarai and Emma Macfarlane stunned, inspired and generally kept us thrilled with their superlative beauty.

If all the high drama and high culture left you in need of some rest and respite, our intrepid travel editor travelled (with you, vicariously) to Morrocco and was seduced by sumptuous cuisine, eclectic old-world architecture and a sensory assault of colour, smell, sights and sounds. Closer to home (depending on where you call it), our food critics ventured from three-star Michelin destinations in London to an island hideaway restaurant in Singapore. Whilst in the Orient, the publishers to travel haute monde, h2g, brought us round the brave new city that is Beijing. It’s a hard life.