Every Thursday from 23 May - 27 June 2013, 10.30am-12.30pm
If you’ve ever been taught how to look at a painting, then you’ll know how much being able to ‘read’ a work of art increases the pleasure of going to any exhibition. (John Berger’s classic book, Ways of Seeing, is… Continue reading
Mon - Fri: 11am - 5pm, but the best days are Thursday & Friday
If you live or work near the Barbican then you’ll know about Whitecross Street food market, but for us, it was a bit of a revelation. Fancy a delicious and truly satisfying lunch for a fiver or less? Italian? Mexican?… Continue reading
9 Dec 2013 - 25 Jan 2014
Set your alarms for March 18th for that’s when tickets to this much-anticipated RSC version of Shakespeare’s Richard II starring David Tennant go on sale. (If you’re already a member of the Barbican (red or orange), then you can buy… Continue reading
18 July 2013, 7.45pm
The Venezuelan singer, songwriter and artist is back with a new album, Mala, and a gig at the Barbican. Devendra (whose middle name is Obi after Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars) grew up in Venezuela before moving to Los Angeles… Continue reading
28 June, 2013 at 7.30pm
If you’ve never heard performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson’s song O Superman, you’re in for a major treat (just click on the YouTube link below to see what we mean). She recorded it for her 1982 album Big Science,… Continue reading
An old petrol station at the back of King’s Cross isn’t the first place you’d look for a hip, new South American restaurant from the owners of the fashion crowd’s favourite East End hangout, Bistrotheque. Think of Ed Ruscha’s Gasoline… Continue reading
30 & 31 March 2013, both at 7.30pm
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Whilst Brahms’ Requiem might not be as well known as say Mozart’s or Fauré’s, it is still no less sublime to listen to. And the great news is that Valery Gergiev is conducting the LSO playing it next March. Even… Continue reading
![THE GRADUATE [US 1967]
DUSTIN HOFFMAN, ANNE BANCROFT](http://www.a-littlebird.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/The-Graduate_5-c-Embassy-Pictures-Corporation-124x124.jpg "THE GRADUATE [US 1967]
DUSTIN HOFFMAN, ANNE BANCROFT")
2 Nov - 9 Dec 2012: Sam Taylor-Wood & The Talented Mr Ripley , 2 Nov, 7.30pm; Nick Broomfield & Woman of the Dunes, 4 Nov, 7pm; Richard Ayoade & The Graduate, 5 Nov, 7pm; Zbigniew Preisner & A Short Film about Killing, 11 Nov, 6.30pm; Marcos Jorge & Estômago: A Gastronomic Story, 12 Nov, 7.30pm; Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod & Le Plaisir, 17 Nov, 8.30pm; Kazuo Ishiguro & The Silence of the Sea, 19 Nov, 7.30pm; Andrea & Carrie, 21 Nov, 7pm; Stephen Frears & Fish Tank, 23 Nov, 7.30pm; Jake and Dinos Chapman & The Offence, 25 Nov, 6.30pm; Mike Leigh & Baby Face, 26 Nov, 7.30pm; Vivienne Westwood & La Grande Bouffe, 6 Dec, 7.30pm and Michael Nyman & Silent Light, 9 Dec, 6.30pm
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What a great idea this is: the Barbican have rounded up some of London’s most interesting, creative people and asked them which favourite film of theirs explores one of the seven deadly sins. They are then showing these films with… Continue reading
24 Sept 2012, 7.45pm
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Didn’t get around to booking seats for the super-glam production of Strindberg’s Mademoiselle Julie at the Barbican, with costumes by Alber Elbaz for Lanvin, and French film star Juliette Binoche in the title role? Well, don’t worry, you can still… Continue reading
20-29 Sept 2012, 5pm, 7pm and 7.45pm
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With costumes by Alber Elbaz for Lanvin and French film star Juliette Binoche in the title role, this really is a super-glam production of Strindberg’s Mademoiselle Julie. A contemporary version of the 1888 play, directed by Frédéric Fisbach, about a… Continue reading
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