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Black and white photo of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. She is sat at a large table and he is next to her, perched on the table.
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Stardust

Join us for two screenings of Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (2024) – an intimate portrait of two of the most influential architects of the last century.

 Installation view of Citra Sasmita, Ode to the Sun, Yeo Workshop, Singapore, 2020
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Citra Sasmita

Free

The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration. 

Citra Sasmita stands in a lush, green garden
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Art & design Talks & events

Artist Talk: Citra Sasmita

Free

Join us to hear from artist Citra Sasmita and curator Lotte Johnson about the thinking and inspiration behind  Into Eternal Land.

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
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Noah Davis

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.

Kristiaan Borret standing on a waterlogged building site, wearing a bright yellow jacket.
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Kristiaan Borret

Kristiaan Borret, City Architect of Brussels (2015–2024), looks back at a decade when the city gained international recognition for the exceptional quality of its new architecture and urban planning.

Citra Sasmita, Act One (detail), 2024, from Into Eternal Land, The Curve, Barbican, 2025 © Citra Sasmita
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Art & design Talks & events

Somatic Cosmologies

A conversation with poets and writers Nikita Gill, Daisy Hildyard and Ariana Reines on how mapping the body can help to understand and even change the world.

A red room with four tables and a chair. It looks like a seance.
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Season Butler: Writing Worlds

What is it to make a world – and why is storytelling important? Discover more at this panel discussion featuring guest speakers Season Butler Chloe Aridjis, Sarah Shin and Sammy Lee.

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Art & design Cinema

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land: Pather Panchali

Coinciding with Citra Sasmita’s Into Eternal Land, the artist has selected Satyajit Ray’s celebrated debut film Pather Panchali

A group of people sit beside each other on the floor, drawing, colouring and collaging.
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Art & design Talks & events

Home: Figure and Portrait Drawing Workshops

Express yourself freely and creatively at this figure and portrait drawing course that will encourage you to reflect on the themes of family and the home. 

40 Acres and a Unicorn 2007
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Teacher's View: Noah Davis

Calling all teachers! Join us for an introduction to Noah Davis, our new exhibition in the Art Gallery. 

Imitation of Wealth (2013)
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Art & design Talks & events

When Artists Curate: Noah Davis and the Artist-Curator

Join artists Alvaro Barrington and Allison Katz with writer and podcaster Helen Molesworth for a panel discussion moderated by art historian Dorothy Price, inspired by the work of Noah Davis. 

A photo of the Farmworker's House in Cornwall. It is a single storey, with a lime render and a pitched roof with three roof windows on the right side. On the left is a large chimney. It is surrounded by a large meadow of grass.
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Hugh Strange

Explore the work of Hugh Strange, whose buildings are rooted in the precise and economic use of low-carbon materials and a sensitivity to the particularities of their sites.

A painting of a man riding a white unicorn. The background is entirely black.
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Art & design

Noah Davis: Curator Tour with Kitty Gurnos-Davies

Join curatorial assistant Kitty Gurnos-Davies on a tour of the exhibition that highlights how Davis explored the emotional textures of everyday life through his artmaking. 

A painting of two teenage girls asleep on a sofa. One has her head leant against the arm of the sofa, the other is laying beside her. On the left, the legs of another figure can be seen sitting in an adjacent seat. There are a pair of black shoes on the floor.
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Art & design

Noah Davis: Curator Tour with Wells Fray-Smith

For this special evening, join curator Wells Fray-Smith as she selects some of her favourite works in the exhibition and how Davis referenced and defied his art historical heroes.

Claudia Rankine sitting on a sofa, resting her head in her hand.
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Art & design Talks & events

Claudia Rankine: New Approaches to Autobiography

Join American poet and playwright Claudia Rankine as she examines the shifting terms of autobiography in contemporary Black artmaking.