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Barbican Arts Centre
Level Three, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Reviews
Rain Room [23 January 2013]
I didn’t go to this feeling cynical or expecting to be disappointed, in fact quite the opposite, but it’s a long time since I’ve stood in a gallery and wondered, “Is this art?” The sound is great and immersive – Read on…
The Curve, Barbican, London
4 October 2012 - 3 March 2013
Reviewed by: Eleanor MacFarlane »
The Surreal House [24 October 2010]
If you are in need of some good old fashioned Surrealism and can’t afford to go all the way to The Dalí Theatre Museum in Figueres in Spain or even Spain or France, then have no fear there is a contemporary exhibition of everything you Read on…
The Barbican Gallery, London
10 June - 12 September 2010
Reviewed by: Adam Kelly »
The Surreal House [18 August 2010]
The Brutalism of the Barbican Estate's architecture is like an awkward cousin of Modernism. Honest unabashed concrete fills your whole field of vision as you look out around the Barbican Centre to the flats and avenues and the three sky-rise towers: Read on…
Barbican Art Gallery, London
10 June - 12 September 2010
Reviewed by: Ruth Solomons »
Peter Coffin [30 April 2009]
I would strongly recommend visiting The Curve, one of the exhibition spaces at Barbican Art Centre. If it is your first time at The Curve, you will be nicely stroked. The black cloths on the left and the concrete floor recall an interesting Read on…
The Curve Barbican Art Gallery, London
11 February - 10 May 2009
Reviewed by: marina giostra »
Nan Goldin - Heartbeat [16 January 2008]
Dressed as a clown and watching slides of couples having sex sounds as if it would be a great way to spend Halloween. But as I spent time in fancy dress with the intimate and graphic couples in Nan Goldin’s ‘Heartbeat’ Read on…
Barbican, London
12 October 2007 - 27 January 2008
Reviewed by: Thomas Darby »
Office Party Xmas 2007 [20 December 2007]
Cheesy music? Check. Party nibbles? Check. Social awkwardness? Bucket loads. Christopher Green and Ursula Martinez’s Office Party Xmas 2007 at the Barbican Pit Theatre had all the necessary ingredients for Read on…
Pit Theatre, Barbican, London
12-29 December 2007
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson »
Seduced: Erotic Art at the Barbican [25 November 2007]
Boldly going where few curators have gone before Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp and Joanne Bernstein ambitiously take on ‘art and sex from antiquity to now.’ They have brought to the Barbican nearly 250 objects spanning 2,000 years of Read on…
The Barbican, London
12 October 2007 - 27 January 2008
Reviewed by: Juliana Cerqueira Leite »
Araki: Self.Life.Death [24 November 2005]
Life quite obviously amuses Nobuyoshi Araki. It turns him on and excites him. The Barbican's current show, Self.Life.Death. is the first British exhibition of the man who, to the Japanese at least, has long been known for documenting his Read on…
Barbican Art Gallery
10 October 2005 to 1 January 2006
Reviewed by: Tom Morris »
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