Barbican Centre

Constructing Worlds: a new exhibition at the Barbican gives architectural photography the exposure it deserves

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 13 October 22

Shilpa Gupta at the Barbican: social injustice, censorship and poetry

In the multipart show ‘Sun at Night’ at London’s Barbican, Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta highlights the fragility of free expression and gives a voice to those silenced

By Cleo Roberts-Komireddi • Last updated 12 October 22

International photographers bring a ‘Strange and Familiar’ focus to Britain

By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated 11 October 22

Barbican apartment refurbished by Archmongers with colourful geometry

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 11 October 22

Architect Laurence Quinn welcomes us to his renovated Barbican home

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 11 October 22

Barbican Conservatory’s definitive guide on how to care for indoor plants

The Barbican Conservatory’s head gardener Marta Lowcewicz offers expert advice on how to maintain indoor plants

By Mary Cleary • Last updated 10 October 22

United Visual Artists' meditative 'Momentum' installation swings into action at London's Barbican

By Maksymilian Fus Mickiewicz • Last updated 8 October 22

Kam Bava breathes new life into the Barbican sunken bars

We visit the restoration and interiors refresh of the Barbican sunken bars by London architect Kam Bava

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 October 22

Forty years of the Barbican Centre: an art utopia made concrete

Building Utopia: The Barbican Centre, published to coincide with the institution’s 40th anniversary, explores the birth of the Barbican, its storied history and its unparalleled impact on contemporary arts and culture 

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated 6 October 22

The photographers who captured rebels, rejects and outcasts on the edges of society

By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated 1 September 22

Lip service: Ragnar Kjartansson sets tongues wagging at the Barbican

By Elly Parsons • Last updated 31 August 22

Modern music: London’s Barbican sways to the tune of mountains and waves

By Nick Compton • Last updated 24 August 22

Star cast produces Merce Cunningham’s centenary ballet

Night of 100 solos is an intimate yet far-reaching performance event, with set design by the late Richard Hamilton, and music in part by Christian Marclay

By Elly Parsons • Last updated 22 August 22

Beautiful brutalism: Barbican’s Blake Tower debuts its first show apartment

Conran & Partners pair 'warm and soft' interiors with brutalist architecture in the Blake Tower's first show apartment

By Ali Morris • Last updated 22 August 22

Rolling thunder: Doug Aitken’s ’Station to Station’ arrives at the Barbican

By Tom Howells • Last updated 20 August 22