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Tag: Barbican Centre

◑ New Suns Journal ◑

15th March 202116th March 2021  Sammy Weaver

Our writer, Sammy Weaver, creates a thrillingly imaginative response to the Barbican’s recent feminist literary festival, New Suns, and reimagines words as seeds, bodies as earth and people as lichens.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: adrienne maree brown, Alice Spawls, Ama Josephine Budge, Barbican Centre, Donna Haraway, Dorothea Lasky, Fabrizio Terranova, Izabella Scott, New Suns, Octavia Butler, Sammy Weaver, The White Review

It All Comes Down at the Barbican

10th March 202110th March 2021  Rochelle Roberts

Bringing together thirteen emerging artists between the ages of 16-25, the Barbican’s latest exhibition, It All Comes Down, explores how young people navigate the world and approach their artistic practise during the pandemic.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Annie Lee, Arabella Turner, art, Barbican, Barbican Centre, Becca Lynes, Dada, Defne Ozdenoren, Film, Jordan Robertson, Lay Stevens, Lockdown, Molly Morphew, Photography, Rebecca Cromwell, Rochelle Roberts, Safiye Grey, Sam Ahern, Sneha Alexander, Surrealism, Vangelis Trichias, Young Visual Arts Group

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican

29th July 202029th July 2020  Frankie Dytor

Frankie Dytor takes a close look at the image of the father in the Barbican Art Gallery’s extended run of their hit show, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Anna Fox, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Duane Michals, Gender, Hans Eijkelboom, Masculinities, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Masculinity, Toxic Masculinity

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican Art Gallery

17th March 202017th March 2020  Carla Plieth

Over 50 international artists are exhibited in the Barbican’s exciting new show documenting the development, construction, performance and questioning of masculinity from the 1960s until now.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alona Pardo, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Catherine Opie, Fouad Elkoury, Gender, Hank Willis Thomas, Hans Eijkelboom, Isaac Julien, Jeremy Deller, John Coplans, Marianne Wex, Masahisa Fukase, Peter Hujar, Photography, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, Stonewall Riots, Sunil Gupta, Thomas Dworzak

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

19th November 201929th January 2020  Frankie 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, Night / Shift, 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 201819th January 2020  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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