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Barbican Centre

Posted inArt

Soheila Sokhanvari Honors Iran’s Feminist Rebels

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky February 1, 2023February 2, 2023

Born in Shiraz, Sokhanvari fled Iran as a child a year before the Revolution and has devoted her artistic practice to the country she left behind.

Posted inArt

Searching for Healing in Postwar Art

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

An exhibition at the Barbican in London asks: How do you make sense of war’s senseless destruction and loss of human life?

Posted inArt

Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky July 15, 2021July 16, 2021

Curiously, Dubuffet’s anti-hierarchical approach to art did not translate to similar views on society.

Posted inArt

Michael Clark: Choreographer, Club Kid, and Collaborator Extraordinaire

Avatar photo by Sam Moore December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

Cosmic Dancer casts Clark as an artist who refuses to be pinned down by a single discipline or style, though its kaleidoscopic approach occasionally loses sight of Clark himself.

Posted inArt

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Skillfully Flips the Script of Art History

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky September 17, 2020February 10, 2022

In A Countervailing Theory, her current exhibition at the Barbican Centre, Ojih Odutola’s alternative histories take on a more epic, mythic scale.

Posted inFilm

The First Black Woman to Direct a Major Hollywood Film Is Finally Getting Her Due

by Beandrea July October 15, 2019October 16, 2019

Thirty years after the release of A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy is on a roll with a Barbican retrospective and a slew of recent screenings. Here’s a look back at some of her major works.

Posted inFilm

Anime’s Hostile Visions of the Future

Avatar photo by Kambole Campbell September 25, 2019September 19, 2020

Anime’s Human Machines at the Barbican Centre offers a variety of perspectives on humanity, technology, and whether the soul can exist between machines and humans.

Posted inArt

Lee Krasner’s Second Act 

Avatar photo by Tim Keane August 17, 2019August 16, 2019

Though Krasner often invited art historians to interpret her work biographically, she was too resourceful an artist for those reductive readings to overshadow her art’s complexity.

Posted inArt

Lee Krasner’s Early Prophecies

Avatar photo by Tim Keane August 10, 2019November 19, 2021

Krasner’s teacher, Hans Hofmann, told her that her work was so good, you would have never known it was done by a woman.

Posted inArt

The Passion and Inspiration of Creative Couples

Avatar photo by Mika Ross-Southall November 24, 2018November 21, 2018

Modern Couples explores how creative couples reshaped modern art and redefined ideas of gender and love in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Banksy mural near the Barbican Centre (via banksy.co.uk)
Posted inIn Brief

New Banksy Murals Pay Homage to Basquiat

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 18, 2017September 18, 2017

The two murals in central London appeared just before the opening of a major Basquiat exhibition at the Barbican Centre.

Posted inArt

A History of Science Fiction’s Future Visions

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 31, 2017July 31, 2017

The Barbican Centre’s Into the Unknown explores science fiction as a cultural force, and how it channels our most optimistic and dystopian projections about the future.

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