Anime's Human Machines continues at the Barbican Centre (Silk Street, Barbican, London, UK) through September 30.
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Create London and the Barbican will convene on for a discussion at the Barbican Centre (Silk St, London) on Sunday, June 27 to publicly reflect on the content of this report.
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He ended up working with the Barbican for five years.
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His technical brilliance was clear at the Barbican Centre last month.
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Signs hawk Barbican nonalcoholic beer, from Saudi Arabia, Iran's regional enemy.
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Basquiat: Boom for Real opens September 21, 2017 at The Barbican.
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The Barbican is actually a very wide hall but not very deep.
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"Where do I exist?" she asks me now at the Barbican rhetorically.
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Barbican is a popular halal nonalcoholic beer available throughout the Middle East.
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I'm at Kennedy's on Whitecross Street, just around the corner from the Barbican.
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Hidden Figures: Euzhan Palcy continues at the Barbican in London through October 26.
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Strange and Familiar is showing at the Barbican in London until June 19.
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Masculinities: Liberation Through PhotographyThrough May 17 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London; barbican.org.uk.
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Co-commissioned by National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and Barbican Art Gallery, London.
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Murcof and Wagner will be in concert at London's Barbican on October 31, 2016.
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We also did it at the Barbican in London with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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You can find more information on upcoming events in the series at the Barbican website.
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The art of the rejection letter (From the Basquiat retrospective at London's Barbican Gallery) pic.twitter.
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The show will then travel to Austria's Donaufestival and London's Barbican later in the year.
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The Barbican Library is a great place to sit and work and research a new project.
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It has so far been adopted by 40 cinemas festivals across the U.K., including London's Barbican.
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An expansive and enthralling exhibition at London's Barbican Centre pulls work from more than 23 architects.
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The Barbican Gallery's last major group exhibition, Another Kind of Life, fell into a similar trap.
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Lee Krasner: Living Colour continues at the Barbican Centre (Silk St, London, England) through September 1.
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A large show, "Basquiat: Boom for Real," opening at the Barbican Center in London on Sept.
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Chunk of Punk is at the Barbican Music Library in London from March 2 to April 28.
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Modern Couples continues at the Barbican Gallery (Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS, UK) until January 27, 2019.
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A recent festival held by the Barbican, a London venue, proved how effective this approach could be.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Boom for Real continues at the Barbican Centre (Silk St, London) through January 28.
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Now, almost two years have passed in what feels like a flash, and we're meeting at the Barbican.
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These are questions that Tamara Anderson, a curator at the Barbican cinema in London, has been trying to answer.
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Tamara Anderson: We came up with Cheap Thrills to run alongside an exhibition at the Barbican about vulgar fashion.
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A proposed new hall for the Barbican Centre, which would probably cost £400m ($493m), has its cheerleaders in the press.
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"Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins" is on display at the Barbican Centre in London until May 27th
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The two murals in central London appeared just before the opening of a major Basquiat exhibition at the Barbican Centre.
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Noah was excited to show me the Barbican and Denys Lasdun's National Theatre, one of London's most controversial Brutalist buildings.
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The screenings are paired with Life Rewired Shorts, art films commissioned by the Barbican and the short film festival The Smalls.
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The Barbican has presented a strong, diverse selection of films that would do well as an initial foray into the genre.
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The Barbican answers this question in a clever way, utilizing its own unique Brutalist interior to maximize both experience and explanation.
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The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 continues at the Barbican Centre (Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS) through June 25.
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The production will be part of a 2017 residency from Mr. van Hove's theater company, the Toneelgroep Amsterdam, at the Barbican.
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Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy, and the Avant-garde continues at the Barbican Centre (Silk Street, London, UK) through January 27, 2019.
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A man takes a photograph of a new work by street artist Banksy on a wall by the Barbican Centre on Sept.
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The proposed structure would be situated in London's Barbican area, a famous experiment which injected residential living into the center of London.
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Karsh posed alongside the photo in 1988, during the preview of his 80th birthday exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London.
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Art Review A photography show at the Barbican Art Gallery presents 203 years of cowboys, skater dudes, frat boys and leather men.
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It debuted at the Barbican in London in 1985 to sneering reviews, many of which compared it disparagingly to Victor Hugo's novel.
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The post-war architecture of the Barbican is a fitting setting for Into the Unknown, with its concrete angles and utopian spirit.
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In conjunction with the show, Penguin Classics released a series of limited-edition science fiction books with Barbican architecture on their covers.
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"We were performing a matinée of 'Henry V' at the Barbican last November, the day after the attack on Paris," Doran recalled.
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Many may be familiar to raw concrete aficionados, including the gargantuan 1969 Boston City Hall and London's sprawling 1962-82 Barbican Estate.
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That composition comes paired with footage from the bowels of the Barbican, that lend an appropriately seedy air to the whole proceedings.
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Last year, producers James Holden and Luke Abbott were invited to London's Barbican to perform for the 80th Birthday celebration of Terry Riley.
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Imran Qureshi's Where the Shadows are So Deep continues at the Barbican Centre's Curve Gallery (Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS) through July 10.
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The Barbican Gallery's Modern Couples exhibition questions the notion of "solo male genius," exploring unconventional iterations of love and how romance pervades art.
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Closed to the public, the Rotunda is a mysterious structure that's attached to the Barbican complex as part of the Museum of London.
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The Barbican will be the last stop on Giegling's intercontinental sojourn, which kicked off in a grand way last month in New York.
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Then there's the Barbican Center, an enormous performing arts complex that is roughly a 30-minute bus ride from where I was staying.
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At the time of this writing, Dolce & Gabbana's public relations team has declined to loan pieces for inclusion in the Barbican show. 234.
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In 2018, a major exhibition from her archive was staged at the Barbican Center in London and the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
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Two new Banksys have popped up at the Barbican Center here, authenticated on Sunday by the British graffiti artist on his Instagram account.
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Penguin unveiled a set of limited-edition books with covers inspired by the Brutalist architecture of the Barbican Centre and Estate in London.
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When the Barbican, a performing-arts centre in London, attempted to make its toilets "inclusive", it did so by relabelling them as "gender neutral".
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"I had a walk-through at the Barbican and just imagined what it would sound like if Steve Reich was playing 'Xpander,'" he says.
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"Major new Basquiat show opens at the Barbican - a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls," Banksy said.
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It rose to international prominence in recent years, performing in venues such as the Barbican in London and the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
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"I'm actually so sick at the moment," she says, rolling her eyes as we venture through the dark grey concrete towers of the Barbican.
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The orchestra is currently based at the Barbican Centre, which is considered by music lovers to have too small a stage and flawed acoustics.
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Masatoshi Naito is an acclaimed Japanese photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally since the 60s at places like the MoMA and the Barbican.
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All you would have to do is remove the headphones you were instructed to put on as soon as you arrived at the Barbican Theater.
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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.
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The Barbican Center's upcoming Sound Unbound weekend has classical-inspired DJs and Renaissance music rescored for electric guitar, in addition to Mr. Byrne's Charterhouse gig.
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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.
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Hatching Dragons, a Chinese-language nursery across the city in Barbican, aims to turn toddlers into "globally aware, globally capable" citizens, says Cenn John, its founder.
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This week, Digital Revolution, a major digital art exhibition launched at the Barbican Centre, featuring work from artists and practitioners in various fields of arts-tech.
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I fear you won't find much of these changes in "Masculinities," a soggy and slothful exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London through May 17.
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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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Nevertheless, having an exhibition like Into the Unknown at a mainstream space like the Barbican is significant, showing the art world appreciates science fiction beyond kitsch.
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"I was freaking out about the state of the world and I knew that I had no control over it," she says to me in the Barbican.
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That adversarial framing was on view earlier this month at London's Barbican, where an experimental concert pitted an AI trained on Bach against good old Johann Sebastian.
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He founded Zimbabwe's Barbican Bank and asset management company, which were, however, put into administration by the central bank in 2005 after only two years of operations.
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But media shapes identity outside as well as within borders, as "Strange and Familiar", a new exhibition at the Barbican curated by Martin Parr, seeks to explore.
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In the 2016 incarnation of Robert Lepage's "Needles and Opium" at The Barbican, the character of Miles Davis is performed by a physical actor (Wellesley Robertson III).
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The celebrated Belgian director Ivo Van Hove adapted the material (he will turn his attention to another Visconti piece, "Obsession," at the Barbican in London in 173).
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The Barbican presents an impressive selection of films, covering a variety of perspectives on humanity, technology, post-humanity, and whether the soul can exist between machines and humans.
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Thomas Ostermeier's electrifying Shakespearean creations at the Barbican theatre in London used a German translation and English surtitles, with occasional switches into English for ad-libs and soliloquys.
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It's an expansive and enthralling survey at London's Barbican Centre, pulling work from more than 40 different architects, amplified by a range of models, photographs, drawings, and videos.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — The painting "Prophecy" (1956) is an interlude of sorts in the retrospective here at the Barbican Centre, Lee Krasner: Living Colour.
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In London we saw Dora Maar (Tate Britain), Lee Krasner (Barbican), and Dorothea Tanning (Tate Modern) all step out from behind their lovers' shadows and into the spotlight.
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He had been scheduled to perform in April at a tribute to Can at the Barbican in London with members of Sonic Youth and Can's singer Malcolm Mooney.
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The first was the Royal Shakespeare Company's high-tech interpretation of "The Tempest" at the Barbican Center, with Simon Russell Beale as that mighty sorcerer in exile, Prospero.
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Broadly stole some time with Jill at the opening of Chunk of Punk—in London's sedate Barbican library of all places—to discuss some of her messiest standout moments.
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"With our menu this year, we're taking old ideas and modernising them a little," explains chef Patrick Leano of Osteria, the modern Italian restaurant at London's Barbican arts centre.
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TWO OF Brazil's most prominent pop musicians, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, both from Bahia and both 73 years old, will perform on May 4th at the Barbican Centre.
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Imran Qureshi's paintings have been shown at the greatest museums of the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Barbican Art Gallery in London.
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Now Krasner is having another British retrospective — Barbican Centre's Lee Krasner: Living Colour, the first European show of her work since the Whitechapel exhibition more than 50 years ago.
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Weber and the ensemble also teamed up for a live performane of Terry Riley's In C with the group at the Barbican arts center in London that same year.
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Related: Matthew Barney's Early Work Is a Metaphysical Gut-Check Experience Now: A Conversation with Doug Aitken Doug Aitken's 30 Days of Art Happenings Takes Over London's Barbican Centre
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In 1996, Graham Sheffield, the music director of London's Royal Festival Hall and also of the Barbican Centre, the large performing-arts complex, offered him a temporary position there.
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It is close to the Barbican, the symphony's current home, which Mr. Rattle recently described as unsuitable for about 20 percent of the repertoire he would like to cover.
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More than 60 years later, being a stranger is precisely the point of another photography show, "Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins" at the Barbican Centre in London.
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It seemed to work: Huw Humphreys, head of Music at the Barbican, noted that many who had bought one-day tickets for the Saturday returned for the second day, too.
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Related: Experience Now: A Conversation With Doug Aitken Arts and Arcology Pave The Way For Desert Experiment Arcosanti Doug Aitken's 30 Days of Art Happenings Take Over London's Barbican Centre
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LONDON — Jude Law will star in "Obsession," a new play based on the 1943 Luchino Visconti film, at the Barbican Center in London in 2017, the theater announced on Tuesday.
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"Mozart Dances" began as a combined commission by Lincoln Center (for Mostly Mozart), the Barbican in London and the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, timed for Mozart's 250th birthday.
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"If you look at the Barbican or the Pompidou, these are places that try to bring all the arts closer together, but they still build individual spaces," Mr. Weisbrodt said.
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The Barbican exhibition, "Boom for Real," is the first large-scale British show of Basquiat's work and will feature over 100 works as well as notebooks, photographs and archival materials.
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Incoming, which Frost and Tweeten worked on as Mosse's close collaborators, garnered great acclaim when it screened at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Barbican Art Gallery in 2017.
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The production has delighted audiences since its premiere at the Edinburgh festival last year, selling out its limited run at the Barbican in London before it even opened this past February.
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She's been popping up everywhere, from fashion spreads in i-D to art projects in the Tate Modern to Skepta's now-iconic video for "Shutdown"—incidentally also filmed at the Barbican.
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Jessica Johnson, underwriting manager malicious acts at Lloyd's insurer Barbican, said a loss of attraction policy could provide cover, for example, to a hotel group with hotels in four UK cities.
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"Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event" takes place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in New York; the Barbican, in London; and U.C.L.A.'s Center for the Art of Performance.
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Simon Rattle, the orchestra's new music director, has championed the project, earlier this year describing the Barbican as unsuitable for about 20 percent of the repertoire he would like to cover.
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"I'm very proud to have played my part in a great victory for Labour in the City," said Richard Crossan, a public relations consultant and Barbican resident, after being elected for Labour.
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" Similarly, in 2014, a Just Jam concert that was due to take place at the Barbican was cancelled "on the grounds of public safety following dialogue with the City of London Police.
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"It's very clear that we can do a lot of wonderful work in the Barbican, but it's also clear that there's about 20 percent of the repertoire that we can't," Rattle said.
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This sort of jarring mismatch between politics and partying characterises many of the cafés, clubs and artistic hangouts documented in "Into the Night", a new exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London.
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Ava DuVernay's inaugural Array 360 film series set Palcy's debut film Sugar Cane Alley as its opening night feature, and there's also an ongoing retrospective at the Barbican in London through October 26.
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The pieces, which refer to the work of the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, appear to herald the start of a major exhibition of Basquiat's work, opening on Thursday at the Barbican Center.
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" Last summer, Benedict Cumberbatch hit out at people using their phones while he was performing as Hamlet at the Barbican, saying he could see the red lights and that he found it "mortifying.
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The exhibit, Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde at the Barbican in London, focuses on famous artist couples and how their relationships, almost always tumultuous and intense, impacted and informed their art.
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People camped outside the Barbican theatre in the hopes of securing a seat and, on the first night it was streamed, 225,000 people around the world went to their local cinema to watch it.
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For example, there's the match between a ceremony where the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, greets the prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, and "Horse Sale at the Barbican" (1912), by Robert Bevan.
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But once we get past the lines, the Barbican show sets out to untangle an individual whose art was enmeshed within an intensely messy New York City scene comprising music, graffiti, parties, and painting.
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In a satisfying closing of a circle, a large drawing that Basquiat made in London for the institute's exhibition, but that ended up not being shown there, will go on display at the Barbican.
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WHEN Semyon Bychkov raises his baton at the start of his Tchaikovsky series at London's Barbican on October 19th, the hall will be packed, as will New York's Lincoln Centre when he arrives in January.
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In recent years, the Barbican has built a reputation for its inventive, comprehensive architectural exhibition program, having hosted ambitious surveys of Le Corbusier (2009), Charles and Ray Eames (2015), and Bauhaus: Art as Life (83).
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And despite lacerating reviews, Ivo van Hove's ice-cold "Obsession" is packin' 'em in at the Barbican Center, partly because it features Jude Law emoting manfully (and shirtlessly) as the fulcrum of a fatal triangle.
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It was a great pleasure, therefore, to witness the outstanding reappraisal of Brecht's "The Good Person of Szechwan" with which the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theater visited the Barbican in London for three performances this month.
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The Barbican show "Basquiat: Boom for Real", is the first large-scale exhibition in Britain of the work of the artist, who rose meteorically in 1980s New York and died aged 27 of a drugs overdose.
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"Lee Krasner: Living Colour", a retrospective of the artist's work at the Barbican Centre—and the first major show of her work in Europe in more than 50 years—explores these cycles of destruction and regeneration.
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"Never mind the ins and outs of the economy," she said at an interview at St. Giles Cripplegate Church in the Barbican, a residential and arts complex in the City of London, the capital's financial district.
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Related: Body Paintings and Activist Art In the Arizona Desert I Spent Three Days in the Desert at an Experimental Music and Arts Festival Doug Aitken's 30 Days of Art Happenings Takes Over London's Barbican Centre
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And in "King Zulu," a masterly painting inspired by the history of early jazz that occupies a prominent place at the Barbican, Basquiat summoned the memory of the trumpeters Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson and Howard McGhee.
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He later had solo shows at the Barbican Gallery, London, in 2008; at the Maxxi Museum, Rome, in 2014; and at the Grand Palais in Paris and the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, both in 2016.
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If you've got a mayor on the side of culture and arts—helping the Royal Opera House, the English National Ballet, the Barbican, the O2, the theatres, the galleries, our music venues—that benefits the whole country.
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In addition to concerts of the composers' symphonies, talks about the innovation of their work, and screenings of films which utilized their compositions, The Barbican has also created a masterful online exhibition and tribute to the composers.
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Photo by Tom D Morgan UK producer and electronic musician Actress (Darren J. Cunningham) will be teaming up with the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) for a one-off music event at London's Barbican on February 10, 2016.
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CreditCreditShaughn and John for The New York Times Late one afternoon in the difficult spring of this year, Gustavo Dudamel stood onstage at the Barbican Center in London, preparing to enter the realm of the higher beauty.
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Dudamel himself spent the morning conducting a youth orchestra and then presided, onstage at the Barbican, over the release of a manifesto on the future of the arts written by young people from Los Angeles and Britain.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Two murals by British street artist Banksy have appeared at London's Barbican center to mark an exhibition of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a U.S. artist who achieved fame through the New York graffiti scene.
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His images have since been exhibited around the world, including at New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as the Barbican Art Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
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Faiz's verse is threaded through with delicate, insistent ribbons of blood — an aesthetic shared by one of Pakistan's preeminent modern miniaturists, Imran Qureshi, whose latest exhibition at the Barbican Centre's Curve Gallery borrows its title from Faiz's work.
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This followed a rapid rise to relative global fame with the group having performed at prominent venues, such as the Barbican Centre in London and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as multiple international Lebanese festivals.
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It would of course be nice for London to have its own state-of-the-art concert hall, but with the already-existing Southbank and Barbican halls, imperfect though they may be, musical life is perfectly liveable without one.
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To the RSC's natural home in Stratford he added London bases at the Aldwych and, later, the Barbican, and also oversaw the National's move from the cramped Old Vic to a sprawling new concrete venue on the South Bank.
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At the Barbican, another Brutalist utopia, we wandered a complex of concrete surfaces and elevated gardens, with Noah pointing out the way the estate represented an ideal of urban living, how private and public worlds intermingle to create community.
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He included her artwork in an influential 1993 survey of 2860s London art at the Barbican Art Gallery; decades later he located a stash of Boty's paintings in a barn on the Kent farm of one of her brothers.
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Mr. McBurney's "The Encounter," which sold out its limited run (through March 6) at the Barbican even before it opened last week, is a journey to the center of your mind that begins in your auditory nerves and keeps burrowing deeper.
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The refectory-style restaurant near the Barbican, where once the helpings were enormous and the air was filled with the scent of stewed cabbage, is now a smart dining club with a giant stone urn on each side of the door.
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He had produced the award-winning film score to Sebastian Schipper's one-take thriller "Victoria", curated a weekend-long show at the Barbican Centre in London and set up a universal day of worship for his favourite stringed instrument—the piano.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Sunday, two new murals by Banksy riffing on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat appeared in central London on a street near the Barbican Centre, which is about to open a major Basquiat exhibition.
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The show began its life last summer at the Edinburgh International Festival, and then was staged at the Barbican Theater in London early this year; it has also been performed at festivals in Britain, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, France and the Netherlands.
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At the Barbican, Boom for Real — billed as the first large-scale survey of Basquiat in the UK — offers us this chance, with a collection of more than 100 exhibits ranging from paintings and notes, to owned objects and postcards.
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It collates images of more than 850 concrete buildings from the 19663s onward, stretching past Brutalism's monuments — Paul Rudolph's headquarters for the Yale architecture school, the Barbican apartments in London — to massive concrete buildings from West Africa to Southeast Asia.
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The popularity of the soundtrack led to a performance last month in Los Angeles, when the Wordless Music Orchestra performed the score live as the film was screened; another outing is planned at the Barbican Center in London on March 18.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON – As you enter the current Modern Couples exhibition at the Barbican Gallery in London, you are greeted by busts of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, which gaze across at each from either side of the room.
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Let's take a deep breath, because here they all are: SOAS, Senate House, Birkbeck, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Kings College London, St George's University, the Barbican, Sotheby's auction house, Withers LLP, 100 Wood Street, LSE, John Lewis, and Topshop.
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And also, because of the show "Strange and Familiar," organized by Martin Parr, that was on at the Barbican in London I was aware of the trips he'd made to Britain and Europe, so I was keen to see some of that stuff.
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The new production of the oft-adapted play was developed at a German theater, Schaubühne, in Berlin, and has since had productions around the world, including at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2013 and at the Barbican Center in London in 2014.
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At the same time, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, a violinist and composer, brought his "Suite For Ma Dukes" show to the Barbican Centre in London, leading a 17-piece ensemble in performing a selection of works by J Dilla, a much-vaunted hip-hop producer.
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In the Barbican audience, almost certainly to be made up of a majority of compatriots (thousands of Brazilians live and work in London), many will be in their 20s and 30s—many, too, will be present who remember the two men from their youthful heyday.
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To get to the ski area the poor man's way today, you must first get to inner Beijing's ancient Deshengmen archery tower, a hulking brown rectangle of a building with upturned eaves that sits atop a 22001-year-old barbican on the Second Ring Road.
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"Major new Basquiat show opens at the Barbican — a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls," Banksy wrote alongside the black-and-white image of the Ferris wheel, which displays crowns — a popular Basquiat motif — instead of passenger cars.
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For instance, in late January, as the nation was ensnarled in debates about Mr. Trump's desire to build a wall at the Mexican border, "barbican" — which means "an outer defensive work; especially: a tower at a gate or bridge" — was the word of the day.
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Three cities — London (at the Barbican), New York (at the Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Los Angeles (at the Center for the Art of Performance at U.C.L.A.) — will stage Events, the name that Cunningham gave to performances that featured fragments of works from his repertory.
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One hundred dancers will perform anthologies (called Events) of solos from the 1950s to 2009 in New York (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Paris (the Opéra-Comique), London (the Barbican Center) and Los Angeles (Center for the Art of Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles).
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"I would say I'm a tactical voter normally, but it's not clear at this stage what the tactic should be," said Fern Watson, 36, who is opposed to Brexit, bracing against the cold in the Barbican, a brutalist estate on the eastern edge of the district.
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Commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic (which gave the work its premiere a month ago), the Los Angeles Philharmonic (which performs it next March) and the London Symphony Orchestra, "A Trip" was led here on Sunday at the Barbican Center by the conductors Simon Rattle and Simon Halsey.
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The new rendition of the piece—which arrives today, as part of a Blu-Ray release of a series of shows he played earlier this year called reFracted: Live at the Barbican—builds for more than four minutes before the arcing melody that fans know and love finally appears.
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THE ENCOUNTER One of the hottest tickets at the Edinburgh International Festival last summer, Simon McBurney's solo show, which went on to a sold-out run at the Barbican in London, uses innovative aural technology to tell the tale of a photographer lost in the Amazon rain forest.
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The Barbican in London is embracing the sounds of American minimalism in its current series The Sounds That Changed America, a brilliantly researched and synergized event series and online exhibition that parallels the lives and works of three American minimalist composers: Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams.
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Since Madonna arrived in London earlier this month, she and Rocco have attended a screening of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, seen the edgy new show You Me Bum Bum Train, visited the "Strange and Familiar" photography exhibit at the Barbican arts centre and dined at London hotspot Chiltern Firehouse.
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In an interview over lunch at an Italian restaurant near the rehearsal rooms, he managed to eat, gesture and talk, almost without stopping, about "The Encounter," which had its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2015, had a sold-out season at the Barbican in London and has toured Europe.
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And then there's the famous double photo portrait of them as boxers, the Barbican caption countering the New York Times's dismissal at the time of Basquiat as merely Warhol's "mascot," remarking that Basquiat convinced Warhol to return to painting by hand and that he himself took up Warhol's silkscreen technique.
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Onstage around him at London's Barbican Centre earlier this year there were too many people around him to count in a single glance: among them, a full string section, a pair of percussionists, an assortment of guest vocalists and a handful of production buddies assisting on synthesizers and other more electronic music hardware.
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Where most of The Japanese House is all about the interiors and life in the crowded city, the exhibition also finds room to breathe in a second monumental installation: Next to the Moriyama House, the Barbican commissioned Terunobu Fujimori to create a unique tea house, made of charred timber and white plaster.
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"The Proms have always been very democratic, because the people who stand in the arena have the best places in the hall, but they pay the least money," said Nicholas Kenyon, who ran the festival from 2100 to 2007, and is now managing director of the Barbican Center, a London arts venue.
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In the splendid auditorium of the India International Centre (a 203s building commissioned by India's first Prime Minister, it has much in common in both design and the crowd it attracts with London's Barbican Centre), Vandana Shiva is introducing the final act of Bhoomi 220, the annual festival held by her seed bank organisation Navdanya.
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" Mr. Bailey, a London-based art correspondent for The Art Newspaper and an independent curator who has mounted van Gogh exhibitions at the Barbican Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland/Compton Verney, previously posited his theory in an article for The Art Newspaper in 2009 and in his 2013 book "The Sunflowers Are Mine: The Story of van Gogh's Masterpiece.
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Many of the other renters make work related to the performing arts: The artist James Winter, who constructs surreal light installations, recently collaborated with Pilot Technologies, an on-site software company that specializes in audiovisual production, and the pioneering electronic musician Juan Atkins on the Cybotron world tour that kicked off two weeks ago at the Barbican Center in London.
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We spent the next seven nights together, and while I finally got to live out many of those dirty, sexy Wolverine fantasies with Noah, the thing I remember most is standing in the middle of the Barbican Estate, listening to Noah expound on the beauty and solitude of Brutalist architecture, watching as he became more and more animated, explaining the theory and philosophy behind its structure and form.
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Her upcoming solo show, which will include her artistic investigations into hand-dying techniques (among other things), opens at Pace Gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan this spring, and her first major commission for the City of London opened last month at the Barbican; the installation, filled with murals, films and sculptures that examine the 1960 earthquake that devastated Morocco's Agadir, questions how a city reacts and reinvents itself after such a disaster.
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The recreation of the devastating blaze was preceded by several other works as part of the festival: "Fire Garden," a display by the Carabosse Company outside the Tate Modern; "Dominoes," a long trail of giant dominoes that snaked through the City of London leading to a large structure in the Barbican Center's courtyard that caught fire and collapsed; and "Fires of London," a large-scale projection of licking flames by the artist Martin Firrell beamed onto the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral.
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With a brief residency in a state-of-the-art black-box rehearsal studio, Mr. Lopatin was leading his first full group of live musicians under the Oneohtrix Point Never (or OPN) moniker to prepare for the multimedia production "Myriad" — Mr. Lopatin calls it a "concertscape" — that had its premiere at the Park Avenue Armory May 22 as part of the Red Bull Music Festival and will go on to tour other festivals and arts spaces like the Barbican in London.
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