The Barbican is to undergo a huge renewal – and the plans have finally been approved. The City of London Corporation has green-lit the programme, which is part of a long-term plan to ‘future-proof’ ...
1. Carola Bauckholt’s Doppelbelichtung required Linda Jankowska to produce a range of unlikely sounds from her violin, viz.: creaks, squeaks, whistles, swirls, swoops, wails, whines and rasps. They ...
The Barbican will close for a multimillion-pound makeover that will allow the cultural institution to stay open in the future, its chairman said. With a £191 million funding injection from the City of ...
The Barbican will shut its doors for a year from June 2028 as part of a £191m overhaul of the Grade II-listed arts centre ahead of its 50th anniversary. The cultural destination, which opened in 1982, ...
2. Playing the double bass animatedly for 25 minutes in a three-piece tweed suit in a greenhouse, as the very dapper Marcus Vergette did (pictured below by Mark Allan), was always going to be pretty ...