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Posts Tagged ‘Barbican’

Brazilian photographer and activist Claudia Andujar set for major Barbican retrospective

By Lizzie McAllister | Wednesday 24 March 2021 at 13:44

Summer show will focus on Andujar’s work with Brazil’s Yanomami people, as curator says arts audiences must ‘take on ethical responsibility’

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Shabaka Hutchings and the Britten Sinfonia, Barbican, music review: ‘Jazz’s untamed spirit resonates in 2020’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 22 December 2020 at 09:58

Hutchings’ ‘dazzling’ clarinet, backed by the talents of a chamber orchestra, is ‘transcendent’

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BBCSO/Oramo, Barbican, live music review: ‘A concert for the modern world’

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 11 November 2020 at 12:26

The first completely live-streamed performance from the venue’s new series of shows is ‘brave and divine’

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The Divine Comedy, Barbican, live music review: ‘An evening drenched in nostalgia’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 20 October 2020 at 15:17

Neil Hannon and the band offer up a sharp experience of ‘memory and music’ as part of the Barbican’s programme of live shows

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Erland Cooper: Live at the Barbican, music review: ‘A rare and wild talent’

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 14 October 2020 at 07:59

The multi-talented maestro brings the sounds of the Orkney Islands to life as part of the Barbican’s new programme of live shows

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Isadora Now, Barbican, dance review: ‘Mesmerising showcase of an extraordinary woman’s legacy’

By Gabriel Wilding | Thursday 5 March 2020 at 15:24

A triple bill celebrating the life and work of choreographer Isadora Duncan was ‘unexpected, layered and challenging’

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Gut, Barbican, stage review: ‘Thrilling, inquisitive and well-acted’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 11 February 2020 at 14:57

Frances Poet’s ‘razor-sharp’ family drama, performed by Guildhall graduates, avoids ‘black and white simplicity’

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Boy Blue, Barbican Theatre: ‘Hip-hop dance troupe lacking its usual punch’

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 9 October 2019 at 15:59

The Olivier Award-winning company’s latest show, REDD, deals with grief and betrayal, but ends up feeling ‘flat and emotionless’

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Ninth Street Women, Barbican, book presentation: ‘Rewriting male-dominated art history’

By Gaia Caramazza | Friday 19 July 2019 at 16:52

Pulitzer Prize nominee Mary Gabriel discusses her exploration of the lives of five women who revolutionised modern art

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The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Barbican Theatre, review: ‘Like Dario Fo on speed’

By Peter John | Friday 7 June 2019 at 16:02

Cheek by Jowl reunites with Moscow Pushkin Theatre for a ‘fanciful romp through culture clashes’

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Lee Krasner: Living in Colour, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Smorgasbords of shape, movement and colour’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 31 May 2019 at 14:30

Nearly 100 works by the late American artist, who ‘came into her own’ following the death of husband Jackson Pollock, are on display in a major retrospective spanning her 50-year career

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Memorial, Barbican Centre, theatre preview: ‘the biggest challenge is learning all the Greek names!’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 24 August 2018 at 12:13

The Citizen chats to Martina Schwarz, whose Hackney-based community choir will perform in the upcoming war drama

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for February 2018

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 17 January 2018 at 17:56
Fishy: Neil Neil Martinson's 'Another Time Another Place: Hackney in the 70s & 80s' exhibition at Stour Space includes this Ridley Road trader. Photograph courtesy of the artist

In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for August

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 July 2017 at 16:02
"From intricate ink drawings to block-colour sculptures": a pair of works from Making Faces. Photograph: Headway East London

Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features sci-fi, Italian family dynamics and “all manner of erotic mania”…

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Barbican’s Sound Unbound weekender set to give classical music a festival feel

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 April 2017 at 16:47
Crash the party: a cymbal-ic scene from the 2015 event. Photograph: Mark Allan

The event running 29-30 April will feature Anna Meredith, Chilly Gonzales, the London Symphony Orchestra and more

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for April

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 24 March 2017 at 13:14
Part of Moon Face (1999) by David Hepher. (c) David Hepher, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery London and New York

Our regular look at the best exhibitions to be found in and around the borough in the coming month ranges from Japanese architecture to Lebanese film – with a dose of London ‘realness’

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Richard Mosse, Incoming at Barbican Curve: a shattering view of humanity and the inhumane

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 1 March 2017 at 14:30
A scene from the Incoming installation. Photograph: Tristan Fewings / Getty images

In the wake of the current migrant crisis, Richard Mosse’s new exhibition at the Barbican Curve gallery shares a new look at refugees, ‘through the eye of a missile’

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The Barbican: who lives on an estate like this?

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 12 January 2017 at 15:29
Comfortable: estate residents dine out on their balcony. Photograph: Anton Rodriguez

Photographer gives a rare insight into what it is like to live on the iconic estate

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London International Animation Festival comes to the Barbican

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 December 2016 at 10:40

Festival to showcase a medley of styles, materials, techniques and productions used by today’s animators

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World musicians to descend upon Barbican for Transcender festival

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 August 2016 at 14:50

James Holden and Iranian singer Parisa among the performers at weekend event where diffuse musical traditions exist in harmony

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