The best of Irish playwriting lands at the Barbican in an exciting project. An audience of one blindly steps into a booth for a play they don’t get to choose. Six five-minute one-act shows penned by ...

A £231m transformation of London’s Barbican Arts Centre has secured planning and listed building consent, paving the way for a comprehensive retrofit of one ...

The approved scheme will improve access, sustainability and flexible arts spaces, enabling greater use without increasing the building’s size.

Barbican set for major £231m makeover to improve accessibility - Among the additions will be a new climate-controlled ...

Author Salman Rushdie is among the signatories of a letter to the Barbican Centre expressing “profound disappointment and alarm” over the forthcoming departure of its Director for Arts, Devyani ...

Exit of Devyani Saltzman, described as Barbican’s ‘driving force’, announced a few weeks after arrival of new CEO Salman Rushdie, John Akomfrah and Pankaj Mishra are among more than 170 cultural ...

Canadian cultural leader Devyani Saltzman will depart the top arts-programming job at London’s renowned Barbican Centre just shy of two years since taking the position. Ms. Saltzman held some of ...

Shock departure of Devyani Saltzman comes weeks after new CEO joined and before major refurbishment Devyani Saltzman is leaving the Barbican as the arts institution undergoes another significant ...

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LaSalle Investment Management's plans for a 20-storey office scheme at London's Barbican Estate are under threat after a report from the local authority warning of nesting birds of prey at the site.

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Louisiana singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams returned last month with her 16th album, World’s Gone Wrong, a collection of songs that offered up evidence of how she continues to be a prolific and ...