Gesualdo Passione at the Barbican review: struggling towards salvation

Gesualdo Passione at the Barbican review: struggling towards salvation - 3/5 Les Arts Florissants singers and dancers from ...
The Arts Desk

Gesualdo Passione, Les Arts Florissants, Amala Dior Company, Barbican review - inspired collaboration excavates the music's humanity

This powerful, austere collaboration between Les Arts Florissants and the Amala Dianor Company – presented as part of Dance ...
Artnet

Artists Are Cutting Ties With the Barbican After Employees Released a Dossier Exposing Its ‘Inherently Racist’ Work Culture

Artists and collectives are pulling their programming from the Barbican Centre in London after a group of current and former staff released a dossier detailing an “inherently racist” working culture ...
The Art Newspaper

At London's Barbican, Lucy Raven chronicles the destruction of a California dam

Between 2023 and 2024, four dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California were blown up with dynamite after ...
The Arts Desk

Rohtko, Barbican review - postmodern meditation on fake and authentic art is less than the sum of its parts

It’s truly thrilling to see the Barbican embracing big concept long-form theatre again, seeking out productions that are as ...
Frieze

‘It’s Just Clothes!’: Can Fashion Ever Embrace Grime?

Barbican’s new exhibition, ‘Dirty Looks’, purports to confront our relationship with beauty. Many of the garments mimic ...
BroadwayWorld

Devyani Saltzman Appointed Barbican's Director for Arts and Participation

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The appointment follows an extensive international recruitment campaign, ...
The New York Times

In This Exhibition, Gender Meets Climate Activism. It’s a Lot.

A sprawling show at the Barbican Art Gallery in London presents works under the banner of “ecofeminism,” linking women’s oppression with humanity’s destruction of nature. By Emily LaBarge The critic ...
BroadwayWorld

Karena Johnson Joins Barbican As New Head of Creative Collaboration And Learning

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Currently Artistic Director and CEO of Hoxton Hall, Karena will join the ...
Yahoo

Michael Phillips: A Chicago film curator reflects on her new job in London, where national arts funding is still a thing

CHICAGO — Across two decades, the film programmer Rebecca Fons, soon departing the Siskel Film Center in Chicago for a big new job at London’s Barbican Centre, has worked at a novel variety of movie ...
The New York Times

Striking a Pose for What It Means to Be a Man

A photography show at the Barbican Art Gallery presents 50 years of cowboys, skater dudes, frat boys and leather men. But it says little about masculinity today. By Jason Farago LONDON — I know we all ...