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Barbican announces first major exhibition for 2020 celebrating Michael Clark

December 10, 2019

BARBICAN Art Gallery has announced its first major exhibition of the 2020, which will celebrate the work of dancer and choreographer Michael Clark. The exhibition will mark the 15th year of Michael Clark Compan...

The Barbican announces its 2019 Exhibition Schedule

Hannah Valentine

January 16, 2019

Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Feature

THE Barbican has announced its 2019 exhibition programme, the focus of which will be its Life Rewired project which will explore what it means to be human in the face of overwhelming technological and scientifi...

Gucci hosts Choreographer Michael Clark for dance performance

Hannah Valentine

September 25, 2018

Culture, Fashion, Feature

GUCCI’s Milan hub hosted Scottish choreographer Michael Clark for a performance from the Michael Clark Group. The dance company, which resides at The Barbican in London, performed Clark’s To a Simple Rock ‘n’ R...

The Barbican presents Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins

Faye Leung

January 23, 2018

Art, Exhibitions, News, Photography

THE Barbican presents Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins, a collection of powerful images from the 20th and 21st century which examine the dialogue between art and society, addressing themes of ge...

Glass meets young actor on the rise – Orlando James

Thomas Marrington

April 18, 2017

Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

WHEN Glass meets Orlando James at the Barbican Centre, it’s his wide-reaching smile that greets us first. Having taken his role as Leontes in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale around the world, the young East Sus...

Glass reviews Complicite’s The Encounter at The Barbican, London

Tristram Fane Saunders

February 19, 2016

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

A few minutes into The Encounter, you will feel a man breathing against the back of your neck. Resist the urge to turn around. It’s not an overeager theatre-goer, but Complicite’s artistic director Simon McBurn...

Glass interviews British actor Alex Hassell

Heather Doughty

December 9, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

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“You can’t win them all,” says Alex Hassell – Glass talks to British actor and co-founder of The Factory theatre company, Alex Hassell British actor, Alex Hassell is known for both his stage and screen rol...

A weekend of Wagner and washing machines

Viola Levy

August 24, 2015

Culture, Feature

The Flying Dutchman is based on the myth of a legendary ghost ship, doomed to sail the seas for all eternity. Which seemed at odds with what we were watching on the stage of the premiere of the latest produ...

In the bleak mid-winter – Ian Bostridge sings Winterreise at the Barbican

Lilian Pizzichini

January 14, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

In the bleak mid-winter – Ian Bostridge sings Winterreise at the Barbican When Schubert first played his new cycle of “spine-chilling” songs to his friends, they hated it. The cycle, Winterreise, shocked the...

The Frenchman, the legacy, his teddy-bear and her cone brassiere

Livia Feltham

May 6, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Design, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature, Glass Celebrates, News

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You don’t go to a Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition just for the clothes. But my, aren’t they just something else? And upon entering the no- holds-barred Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From The Sidewalk to ...

A look back on Le Male – an exclusive interview with perfumer Francis Kurkdjian

Viola Levy

April 9, 2014

Beauty, Fragrance Picks, Male grooming, News, Shopping Guide

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As the Jean-Paul Gaultier exhibition opens at The Barbican in London today, Glass meets for an exclusive chat with perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, creator of Gaultier's iconic 1994 fragrance Le Male when he was jus...

London International Mime Festival – Where boundaries between reality and the imagination are merged

Georgia Leefe

January 16, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre

This year marks the 38th year of the London International Mime Festival. With contributions from all over the globe including an Italian take on James Joyce’s renowned 1914 work The Dead from The Cit...

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