Read, Watch & Listen

London-based ceramic artist Matt Raw talks us through his creative process as he leads a month–long course, specially put together for Make! The New Brutal

Navid Akhtar takes us on a brief journey through Sufi music – from its roots all over the Islamic world, to its influence on Western music.

42 young creatives from London, Los Angeles, Gateshead, Scotland and Bristol have created Tuning Into Change: A Youth Manifesto for the Arts

Welcome to the Uncanny Valley, a nostalgic and familiar place that looks and feels very much like the human experience, but with something a bit strange in the corner of your eye...

What effect could the rapid pace of scientific and technological progress have on how people create art? Three figures in the field look at whether there’s a creative revolution on the horizon.

Barbican Community Partner, Headway East London visit 'Modern Couples' and reflect on what constitutes collaboration and share their artwork in response to the exhibition. 

British composer, producer and musician Gazelle Twin performs ‘Glory’ in the Barbican Conservatory.

Filmed in an empty Milton Court Concert Hall, baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Andrew West perform a beautiful rendition of 'An die Nachtigall' by Johannes Brahms.

Here are some of the answers.

From award winners and Brexit to the politics of language and presidents, look back at all twelve of the poems from the Subject to Change series by the Barbican Young Poets as they respond to events from our ever changing world in 2018. 

The final in our Subject to Change poetry series, Young Poet Zahrah Sheikh presents her poem 'them & us'

We look at the relationship between Klimt and Flöge and see how, in a process of co-creation, they became standard-bearers of the new liberated man and woman, the alternative king and queen of fashionable Vienna Secession