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PRIVATE VIEW: Francis Alÿs
Watch as artist, Francis Alÿs, and artistic collaborator, Rafael Ortega, discuss how games and creativity help children interact with their environments, and contextualise an adult world beyond their understanding.
Watch as artist, Francis Alÿs, and artistic collaborator, Rafael Ortega, discuss how games and creativity help children interact with their environments, and contextualise an adult world beyond their understanding.
ScreenTalk with director Yorgos Lanthimos joins actors Emma Stone and Jesse Plemmons
Watch Soufiane Ababri discuss his exhibition in our Curve gallery
ScreenTalk with director and co-writer Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding
We sat down with artist Ibrahim Mahama to talk to him about our latest commission Purple Hibiscus, which sees 2000 square metres of vibrant, hand-woven fabric from Ghana envelop our Lakeside facade.
Get lost in this beautiful footage from Ghana, documenting how the fabric for Ibrahim Mahama’s Purple Hibiscus was created.
Watch the transformation of our Lakeside Terrace as Ibrahim Mahama’s Purple Hibiscus was installed over several weeks.
In this Barbican Session, clarinettist Anthony McGill performs Three Smiles for Tracey by American composer Adolphus Hailstork, filmed in the Garden Room.
In an exclusive film produced by DEZEEN our Curator Lotte Johnson talks us through some of her highlights from ‘Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art’.
A ScreenTalk with the iconic German director Wim Wenders and star Kôji Yakusho discussing their film Perfect Days, a beautiful, bittersweet drama set in Tokyo.
A ScreenTalk with director and lead Bradley Cooper and co-star Carey Mulligan, hosted by Barbican curator Sonia Zadurian. Maestro is Cooper's Oscar-winning biography of the acclaimed American composer Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story).