Tag: Barbican

  • Noah Davis

    A survey of the late American painter honours his singular, otherworldly vision

  • Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle

    In her intimate portraits, with an unflinching eye, Neel lays bare the souls of her sitters. Her work is raw, honest and simply marvellous

  • Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer

    Through film, sculpture, painting, costume and photography, this wild party of an exhibition celebrates 40 years of Clark’s work, extending beyond modern dance to visual art, music, costume and set-design

  • Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography

    I had hoped this would be a show full of challenges and questions, but with its images of bodybuilders, soldiers, bullfighters and athletes, it failed to disrupt the archetypes

  • Lee Krasner: Living Colour

    This joyful exhibition, a testament to Krasner’s astonishing energy, creativity and capacity for reinvention, reaffirms her rightful status as a towering figure in postwar American art  

  • Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde

    Modern Couples attempts to retell the story of the modernist avant-garde through creative relationships. But is its intellectual impact marred by its massive scale?

  • Ragnar Kjartansson

    The Icelandic artist’s first UK survey exhibition serves up a palimpsest of delights that gives contemporary performance art a good name

  • Mars Collects! The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art: Barbican Art Gallery, London

    The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art: Barbican Art Gallery, London 6 March–18 May 2008

  • Seduced by the Oldest Topic in the World

    Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now Barbican Arts Centre 12 October 2007–27 January 2008 Sex is an extremely popular subject, but ‘sex appeal’ is nearly impossible to define. People seem to seek this elusive quality in everything they…

  • The Art of Seduction

    Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now London: Merrell, 2007 This book is the catalogue of the current Barbican Exhibition in London. It forms a substantial volume, divided into ten chapters, covering different specs of the subject.