23 February 2026 • Mark Westall
The Barbican presents a landmark retrospective of Colombian artist Beatriz González, her first solo exhibition in the UK and the largest ever staged in Europe
9 February 2026 • Mark Westall
On Sunday, 29th March
18 April 2025 • Tabish Khan
Mughal finery, an Underground Museum, River Guardians, rhinestones and the 1980s.
3 April 2025 • Mark Westall
Embracing a world of listening that goes beyond the audio. Through a series of eleven commissions and installations –
10 April 2024 • Marta Bogna-Drew
Ibrahim Mahama: Purple Hibiscus – #REVIEW- ‘At least 1000 people have worked together in this piece, it took us nearly… Read More
18 May 2023 • Guest
In 2022, artist Rachel Mars forged a replica of the replica. This was subsequently dismantled, and over four days of FORGE, developed as part of the Barbican Open Lab programme and presented in the Barbican’s Pit Theatre, she is welding the iron gate replica a second time.
23 February 2023 • Bryson Edward Howe
Where would you want to be immortalised? Would it be intimately in your bed, caught in the moment of relief on the toilet, or maybe mid-ecstatic drag of the morning’s first cigarette?
22 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Barbican’s galleries lie within a labyrinthine concrete complex, part of an estate that also includes 2,000 flats, innumerable walkways, three restaurants, a public library and an impressively planted conservatory as well as an arts centre known for theatre, film, music and dance as much as visual art.
10 July 2022 • Tabish Khan
Raphael, the climate, Stonehenge, flowers and the news in a museum-fest of a top 5.
19 March 2021 • Mark Westall
The Barbican today announced that Will Gompertz will join the international arts centre in the newly designed role of Director of Arts and Learning.
18 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Japanese architecture, Pieta, ghostly ships, spinning smartphones, a diverse artist, electricity, a skip, guns and students.
14 February 2017 • Mark Westall
Opening today in the Curve at the Barbican Art Gallery is conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse’s immersive multi-channel video installation
19 December 2016 • Tabish Khan
Jackson Pollock, play some drums, an 18th century mystery, giant buttocks and expressive portraits.
20 September 2016 • Staff
There are lots of art events happening in London; talks, workshops, tours, discussions and many many more! Here are some of the more interesting ones.
12 July 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features a hoarder’s squat, coloured smoke, contemporary vanitas painting, haunting photographs and vibrant street art
