Read, Watch & Listen

Barbican New Release Curator Sonia Zadurian talks us though her recent Alien franchise rewatch and explains why we should be excited for Alien: Romulus… 

Ahead of a season of Japanese monster movies, Cinema Curator Alex Davidson shares the backstory of how he first became captivated by the greatest of them all - Godzilla.

Dr. Jordan Amirkhani is an art historian, curator, art critic, and educator; and was recently appointed Curator at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here she explores the life, work and influences of artist Soheila Sokhanvari.

Learn more about this radical artist and her fascinating life in this long read.

An online adaptation of our exhibition Living Lineages. View the full photo gallery below, including an essay and Q&A with the exhibition co-curators.

Get a different perspective on some of the standout pieces of our five star exhibition – with selections from us!

Curatorial Assistant Michal Goldschmidt introduces four artists from the exhibition: Anwar Jalal Shemza, Franciszka Themerson, Kim Lim and Shirley Baker. Drawing from their own writings, she shines a light on their life and work.

Human Rights lawyer and poet Abbas Faiz has written a short essay for us covering his reflections on our current exhibition Postwar Modern, how it intersects with humanitarian issues and his involvement in Abbas Zahedi's Age of Many Posts project.

We invited multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Rachel Aggs to write about Highlife music.

To mark 40 years since we first opened our doors, we've created a digital time capsule. What's inside? Only one way to find out...

A Digital Residency by Annie Jael Kwan.

Assistant Curator at The Noguchi Museum in New York, Kate Wiener introduces the life and work of Japanese American sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, drawing from Noguchi’s autobiographical writings and documents from The Noguchi Museum Archives.