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Tag: Barbican Centre

Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, at the Barbican Art Gallery

19th November 201921st November 2019  Francesca Dytor

Illustrious clubs and night spots in Mexico, Iran, Nigeria and numerous European cities are celebrated – and recreated – in the Barbican’s latest exhibition, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Barbican, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Cabaret Fledermaus, Into the Night, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, Love Fuller, Lumière brothers, Mbari Clubs, Nigerian Mbari Clubs, Parisian Chat Noir

Lee Krasner: Living Colour at the Barbican Art Gallery

8th July 20199th July 2019  Lottie Whalen

The Barbican’s Lee Krasner: Living Colour is a long overdue celebration of an indomitable artist whose ingenious eye offers a kaleidoscopic perspective on the inner and outer worlds that shape our lives, writes our arts contributor Dr Lottie Whalen.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Abstract Expressionism, American Abstract Artists Group, Barbican, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Cubism, David Chipperfield Architects, Fernand Leger, Greenwich Village, Jazz, Lee Krasner, Living Colour, Naum Gabo, painting, Piet Mondrian

Simon Stone’s Medea at the Barbican, London

9th March 20199th March 2019  Barbara Bollig

Simon Stone’s Medea, performed by the International Theatre Amsterdam, is a bold, masterful juxtaposition of Euripidean and Contemporary Tragedy, says our arts contributor Barbara Bollig.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Barbican, Barbican Centre, Debora Green, Euripides, Greek Mythology, International Theatre Amsterdam, Lorena Bobbit, Medea, Myth, Simon Stone, Theatre

Daria Martin: Tonight the World at The Curve, Barbican Centre

7th February 20198th February 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In Tonight the World, Daria Martin brings her grandmother’s dream diaries to life through exquisite 16mm films, thus shining a light on past trauma.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Film and Media, GeneralTagged: Barbican, Barbican Centre, Daria Martin, dreams, Film, Freud, Jarman Award, Jungian Analysis, Susi Stiassni, The Curve, videogames

Francis Upritchard: Wetwang Slack at The Curve, Barbican Centre

2nd January 20192nd January 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

The past is brought into the present, the unrecognisable made warmly familiar in the Barbican’s latest Curve commission, Francis Upritchard: Wetwang Slack.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Ashinaga-tenaga, Balata, Barbican Centre, Dr Seuss, Francis Upritchard, Japanese Folklore, Leila Hasham, Myth, Parthenon Marbles, Pygmalion, The Curve, Wetwang Slack

Review of Modern Couples at the Barbican Art Gallery

10th December 20186th December 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Iconic partnerships and queer love are celebrated in the Barbican Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Camille Claudel, Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Marcel Moore, Modern Couples, Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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