The Barbican is a bonafide London icon. So it’s good news that the 50-year-old brutalist behemoth’s Barbican Centre is getting ... from news and reviews to events and trends.

A £191m funding package has been approved to repair and upgrade the Barbican, the City of London ... the Barbican Centre and its ability to host world-class conferences and events.

Plans drawn up for the City of London Corporation feature 13 and 16-storey buildings on the site, known as London Wall West, on the edge of the Barbican ... for a new concert hall – dubbed ...

2/2 Colin Davis conducts the LSO in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor).

whose last performance at the Barbican in 2023 was described as “completely engrossing” by The Guardian, celebrates his 85th birthday in April. It's also 51 years since his first London ...

I wanted to do this project because I was brought up coming to the Barbican as a child, as a teenager, and I have a real personal connection to it. I’ve seen so many events here ... that's when you ...

In the heart of London, the Barbican Centre’s Conservatory – a 1980s brutalist oasis filled with tropical plants – is hosting an immersive and site-specific exhibition from Indian artist Ranjani ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Antonio Pappano has gone underground since leaving The Royal Opera for the London Symphony Orchestra ... home in Hampstead to the LSO's Barbican Centre base. He is leading the ...

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London's Barbican Centre has revealed initial plans to renovate three of its most well-known spaces. The Grade-II listed cultural destination is publicly consulting on proposals to restore and ...

If there’s such a thing as royalty in jazz, the Jazz at Lincoln Centre ... the Barbican with a two-day visit, the Budapest Festival Orchestra pitched up at the Festival Hall. Two great central ...