Read, Watch & Listen

We look back at our June 2019 Instagrammer, William Jones to explore his Barbican shots.

Cinema curator Tamara Anderson takes us back to the heady days of 1970s France and tells us how the films that came after the Nouvelle Vague were influenced by the turbulent political events of May 1968 – and why these films are still so relevant today.

Vybarr Cregan-Reid considers how the way we use tools changes the way we look.

We look back at our May 2019 Instagrammer, Silje Bergum to explore her Barbican shots.

Urvashi Aneja imagines four alternative futures for work in the global south.

Professor Denis Donoghue introduces the poems and Gideon Lester, Artistic Director of Fisher Center at Bard, visits the locations in T.S Eliot's masterpiece that inspired the multi-disciplinary performance.

Late-50s New York. In Greenwich Village bars and Times Square burger joints painters, writers, critics, musicians were making a new world. Filmmakers were right there too, advocating for freedom from convention.

Sarah Ditty delves into the past - and future - of fashion to see how technology might help improve how clothes are made and consumed.

Francis Gooding explores the birth of the British jazz scene and introduces the faces of a new wave.
 

Rebecca Coleman asks what ‘now’ means in a world where media is all-pervasive and always on.

We look back at our April 2019 Instagrammer, Giselle Jonte to explore her Barbican shots.

We celebrate ten years of Barbican Young Poets and talk to three alumni about their experience being on the project, where they are now, and the impact of poetry on their lives.