ONE of the most iconic spaces in London will close for a whole year as it goes under important upgrades. The Barbican, which ...

Artists from Applied Imagination, an outfit out of Kentucky, who partnered with the Botanic Garden to do this holiday display ...

The Barbican owns a lot of buildings, and neglect at this scale is never cheap. The Brutalist masterpiece will now close in ...

The bad news is that to make way for work to go ahead, the main Barbican site will shut from June 2028 until June 2029. Its ...

The brutalist arts-and-towers complex, where even great explorers get lost, is showing its age. Let’s hope the 50th anniveresary upgrade is better than the ‘pointillist stippling’ tried in the 1990s ...

Come decompress from the stress of Term 1 amongst the beautiful plants of the Barbican Conservatory! Planted between 1980 and 1981, and opened in 1984, the Conservatory now houses around 1,500 species ...

Come with us to the Barbican Conservatory! Nestled within the iconic Barbican Centre, the Barbican Conservatory is the second-largest in London and home to over 1,500 species of tropical plants and ...

The Barbican has unveiled its spring 2026 theatre and dance season, dubbed “Scene Change.” The venue will be staging work in spaces across the Centre and at partner venues while the Barbican Theatre ...

The Barbican is a maze. A beautiful brutalist, multi-levelled maze of crisscrossing walkways in the sky – but still a maze. In a way, that’s part of the cultural institution’s charm, always leading ...

The City of London Corporation has selected a consortium co-led by Assemble to design a major wayfinding upgrade of the Grade II-listed Barbican Centre The Turner Prize-winning practice is co-leading ...

If it doesn’t quite make you believe in fairies, it will convince you of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) ability to mount a lavish family entertainment. Weird that the company has chosen to ...