Citra Sasmita grew up in the traditional Balinese Hindu culture. That flows into how her first UK solo show, ‘Into Eternal Land’, is not just visually compelling but has plenty behind how it looks….
9 March 2025
The Barbican Centre, one of the keystones of London’s cultural life, has secured £191 million from the City of London Corporation…
7 December 2024
The Barbican is currently presenting some forty of Francis Alÿs’s films of children’s games, alongside his paintings and other related material.
17 August 2024
The Barbican has unveiled its latest project, a monumental public commission by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama.
9 April 2024
The first major UK exhibition of the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years, Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty
25 March 2021
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement that museums and galleries may reopen from Saturday 4 July providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines, the following museums and galleries have released details. Here is a useful guide to the planned reopenings. Artlyst will update the list as new information becomes available.
30 June 2020
The catch-up continues: two more female artists, from different phases of the now safely defunct Modern Movement, are now being given their due. They are Lee Krasner, with a solo show at the Barbican; and Natalia Goncharova, at Tate Modern. Both of these were considerable talents. Were they game-changers? That, I think, is a slightly different question.
6 June 2019
Right now, the Curve Gallery at the Barbican has a big show entitled More Than Human that seems exceptionally relevant, not so much to what is happening in the visual arts right now, as to what seems likely to happen. Its theme is AI (artificial intelligence).
20 May 2019
The Modern Couples show currently at the Barbican has eyes slightly too big for its own – or at any rate for my stomach. Nevertheless, it is, in the present climate for the visual arts, an event that is both timely and important.
5 November 2018
The first retrospective exhibition in Europe of Lee Krasner for over 50 years is opening in May 2019 at the Barbican.
24 October 2018
In the society we now have, photography has become the dominant medium for conveying news, opinion, social criticisms of all kinds.
1 May 2018
Although Artlyst essentially focuses on contemporary art reviews, gallery listings and not o operas,
19 March 2018
There are some thought-provoking and informative photography exhibitions on show in London at the moment. Ranging from the Barbican’s Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins which explores subjects on the edge of society to the four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018 at the Photographers’ gallery. Also just opened is the Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography which shows together Oscar Rejlander (1813–75), Lewis Carroll (1832–98), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) and Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65). Here is a selection of what’s on offer.
28 February 2018
The new Jean-Michel Basquiat show at the Barbican titled Basquiat: Boom For Real comes with a thumping big hardback catalogue published by Prestel.
21 September 2017
Basquiat used what he knew was out there on the streets the injustices towards black people.
21 September 2017
The Street Artist Banksy has created two new artworks inspired by Jean Michael Basquiat at the Barbican.
18 September 2017
The first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat(1960-1988) opens at the Barbican on 21st September.
16 June 2017
Barbican Art Gallery has invited conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse to create an immersive multi-channel video installation in the Curve.
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It’s interesting to compare the curatorial approaches to the two densely comprehensive photography group shows on at the the moment:… Read More
26 March 2016
The Barbican has announced further programming details for Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening — American multi-media artist Doug Aitken’s experiment in spontaneous artistic… Read More
26 May 2015
This summer Doug Aitken’s project Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening, takes over the Barbican from Saturday 27 June with more… Read More
27 March 2015
Brett Bailey’s controversial Exhibit B forces the audience to engage with stories of exploitation, say the supporters of the artwork… Read More
24 September 2014
Digital Revolution the exhibition takes up a vast presence at the Barbican, filling its theatres, exhibition spaces and corridors, even… Read More
12 July 2014
Digital Revolution is an immersive and interactive exhibition which brings together for the first time a range of artists, filmmakers,… Read More
3 July 2014
The Barbican and workspace innovators The Trampery have joined forces to create Fish Island Labs, a unique new centre to… Read More
1 June 2014
The Barbican along with Google is launching DevArt a major new project exploring digital art made with code. The project… Read More
6 February 2014
This autumn has seen a number of big events in the arts, but one of the most popular has undoubtedly… Read More
26 October 2012
This spring the Barbican celebrates Duchamp with a major cross-arts season. The public are invited to explore both his work… Read More
15 October 2012
Although one could definitely make the case that there is too much work in this show, it is a noble… Read More
20 September 2012
‘Bauhaus’ – literally ‘School of Building’ – has become one of the most meaning-clustered words in the history of… Read More
2 May 2012
50th anniversary sees Goethe Institut – for Anglo-German cultural exchange – throw open its doors to newly renovated premises, and… Read More
28 February 2012
Antony Gormley has collaborated with Hofesh Shechter to create music-based work to be premiered this week at the Barbican The… Read More
9 January 2012
