LFW SS24: Roksanda
ROKSANDA took to the Barbican Sculpture Court, one of her favourite spaces, to host her spring-summer 2024 collection during London Fashion Week.
The contrasting elements of her fluid silhouettes paired wi...
Glass reviews Jean Dubuffet at the Barbican
JEAN Dubuffet felt “pleased to see life in trouble.” One can’t help but think he would revel in the state we find ourselves in today. Over the course of last year, universally we have all been swept up in a wav...
Glass reviews Michael Clark’s Cosmic Dancer at the Barbican
HAILED as a pioneer in the British cultural landscape, Aberdeen-born choreographer Michael Clark’s first major exhibition Cosmic Dancer at the Barbican, certainly lives up to its title. I have to admit I was sl...
Vivienne Westwood releases their AW19-20 Campaign with a backdrop of the Barbican
VIVIENNE Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler release their Vivienne Westwood AW19-20 campaign amid the backdrop of the Brutalist architecture of London landmark, the Barbican. The timing could not be more perfect, ...
Glass reviews Austrian documentary In The Basement
IT’S rare to see a movie in a London cinema and feel you’re actively bonding with the rest of the audience, but Ulrich Seidl’s 2014 documentary Im Keller (In the Basement) has exactly this effect. In its pertur...
Convergence 2017: Music, Art and Technology
CONVERGENCE festival returns again for its fourth year this March celebrating a great array of music, art and technology. This years lineup boasts international talent with Sunn O))), Actress, Coldcut, Flamingo...
Building the Barbican: Glass reviews Building the Brutal
AFTER three decades of conception and planning, the Barbican finally opened in 1982. Designed by young architects Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, the Centre was imagined as a union of utopian inner city life, uni...
Glass reviews Junun at the Barbican, London
LAST year we were given the musical collaboration of Junun – consisting of England’s Jonny Greenwood, India’s Rajasthan Express and Israel’s singer songwriter Shye Ben Tzur. Junun recorded their self-titled alb...
Glass reviews Henry V by The Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre
There’s nothing like an epic Shakespeare play performed skilfully in a stunning venue to warm your bones and heart on a chilly evening in December. Part of the King and Country cycle, director Gregory Doran’s s...
The art of patience – Glass reviews Basil Twist’s stunning craftsmanship and puppet-poetry, Dogugaeshi at The Barbican
The art of patience – Glass reviews Basil Twist’s stunning craftsmanship and puppet-poetry, Dogugaeshi at The Barbican
Maybe it is something to do with the lure of television: as 21st-century westerners, we ...
Sparks: Live at the Barbican
Ron and Russell Mael – the Sparks brothers
No matter what they have done or will ever do, American duo Sparks’ legacy will comprise precisely two things: the song This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us,...
Constructing worlds: photography and architecture in the modern age
Constructing Worlds sprawls over two floors at the Barbican and unites 18 photographers from across the global signposting a journey that charts the relationship between architecture and photography. There ...
Shao Yen SS14: Dimension
Inspired by elements of Cubism and Chinese pictographic characters, Shao Yen presents Dimension – a conceptual mini-film to accompany his hyper-bright SS14 line. Set in the Barbican art complex, London, the fil...