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Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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Art & design

Noah Davis

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Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
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Art & design Tours & public spaces

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican

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This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.

A group of people hold their artwork up proudly in front of a table filled with craft objects.
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Art & design Take part Talks & events

Home: Community Exhibition

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Come along to this free foyer exhibition that brings together a range of artworks in response to the themes of family, identity and the home.

Gateway West by Jack Hobhouse
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Gort Scott

London-based architects Jay Gort and Fiona Scott discuss their diverse portfolio in the UK and beyond.

a composite image of a Huma Bhabha and a Giacometti sculpture
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Art & design

Members Preview: Encounters

Be the first to visit our latest exhibition in our intimate new gallery space before it opens to the public, as Alberto Giacometti's sculptures are met by new works by contemporary artist Huma Bhabha.

Jason Moran standing in a doorway. The back half of his body is obscured by the door frame, and he is turning to face the camera. His reflection is visible in a mirror behind him.
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Art & design Talks & events

Talk: Jason Moran on Noah Davis and music making

Join American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran in the Art Gallery as he explores different contexts for music making, taking inspiration from the paintings of Noah Davis.

Barbican Conservatory
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Art & design Talks & events

Conservatory Takeover: Listening to Images

Free

Join us as we open up our lush Conservatory for a day centred around Tina Campt's idea of 'Listening to Images' to celebrate the closing weekend of the Noah Davis exhibition in our Art Gallery.

A terracotta sculpture that resembles a human head, sitting on a concrete plinth
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Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha: Audio Described Tour

An Audio Described tour of the exhibition, for blind and partially sighted visitors, led by Harry Baxter, who will describe key works on display.

Desert Cloud
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Graham Stevens

Artist and architectural designer Graham Stevens presents his pioneering work in the development of pneumatic structures.

An architectural blueprint composed of tiny 0s and 1s.
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Architecture in the Age of AI

Speakers from three of the world's leading architecture practices address the ways in which artificial intelligence is reshaping their discipline. 

Two terracotta sculptures that resemble human feet, sitting on a concrete plinth.
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Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha: Relaxed View

Our Relaxed Viewings are dedicated to visitors who'd benefit from a more informal approach to noise and movement in the space, or who feel more comfortable knowing that they can enter and exit freely.

Mona Hatoum sitting on a radiator on the wall of her studio. On the wall next to her is Untitled (Bed Springs), one of her lithograph print depicting a structure made of bed springs, curved and crumpled.
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Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum

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Works by contemporary artist Mona Hatoum and 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are seen together for the first time in this ground-breaking exhibition, part of Encounters: Giacometti.

Robert Wun's yellow rose, with exaggerated proportions and singed details
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Art & design

Dirty Looks

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Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion in a bold new exhibition that questions what is beautiful, and what the future of fashion can be. 

A mountainous landscape, with a reservoir and dam in the foreground and a river winding through the hills beyond.
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Art & design

Lucy Raven: Rounds

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North American artist Lucy Raven brings together moving image and sculpture to examine themes of cyclical violence and unrelenting force in the formation of the Western United States. 

Lynda Benglis standing next to one her sculpture titled Ghost Dance/Pedmarks. It is a large, gold, torso-like form hanging on a white wall.
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Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Lynda Benglis

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Works by contemporary artist Lynda Benglis and 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are displayed together for the first time in this major new exhibition, the third in Encounters: Giacometti.