A new film by the guy behind the award winning documentary about the last days of the Robin Hood Gardens estate in east London, has turned his gaze upon the Barbican itself and how sunset transforms the buildings.
There’s a small exhibition at the moment in The Barbican showing off photos taken inside the famous music studios at Abbey Road.
The curve, that wonderful massive space for art at the Barbican sometimes has queues around the block so good is the art on display. And sometimes, you’re left scratching your head in bewilderment.
Next weekend there’s free interactive art thing happening, and its set among the Barbican Highwalks, that optimistic, or infuriatingly complex, set of elevated pedestrian passages in the City of London.
A road tunnel running underneath the Barbican estate is to be closed to traffic for a weekend next month, and turned into a light and sound installation.
If you’re wandering around the back of the Barbican, you might spy a lot of steel tubes with a seemingly random selection of plants in them.
The Barbican has almost as many food establishments as it has concert halls and galleries, so which to choose from.
A vast display of science fiction memorabilia is filling an inky black space within the brutalist heart of the Barbican at the moment.
Discordant noises in a darkened room with black and white imagery blasting at your eyeballs.
Drawings and designs by the surrealist artist, Gerald Scarfe are on display at the Barbican at the moment.
The curve is a vast space within the Barbican which has on occasions really hit the mark with its displays, leading to long queues to go inside. And sometimes, it’s almost empty.
In the Barbican at the moment, you can find a large geometric sculpture with geometric lines projected onto it and a background musical track.
The Barbican library has put on a display of “zines”, those self-printed pamphlet style magazines that marked a certain sub-culture which still needed to promote and communicate.
As part of a series of exhibitions about the construction of the Barbican housing estate, the latest takes a look at how the empty concrete shells were turned in homes to live in.
A curved expanse drifting into darkness and miniature illuminations are interspersed with red flowers dripping blood.
A concept has been shown off which could see that bastion of concrete brutalism invaded by natural materials — in the form of a wooden skyscraper more than twice the height of the current buildings.
Imagine being told to cast vast slabs of concrete, then told to manually grind away the surface, and do that to an entire housing estate. That is how the Barbican got its distinctive look. A series of displays in the…
There is a canoe being dragged around an empty room at the Barbican, because that’s what art does these days.
Although as much loved as loathed for its expansive use of brutalist concrete, the Barbican is a surprisingly green place, with lots of open spaces and gardens.
People using Farringdon tube and Thameslink stations will not be unaware that a considerable amount of construction work has been taking place over the past few years, and may know that a lot of work is going to carry on…
I am sure you’ll be familiar with the claim that Dick Whittington was lured to London by rumours that the streets were paved with gold, but like most fables there just might be the slightest hint of truth in the…
Thanks to an invite from the chaps (and chapesses) over at the Londonist, I found myself lurking around the entrance to The Barbican Centre this morning – waiting for a chance to have a look at the first significant redevelopment…
