Read, Watch & Listen

Listen to Stephanie J. Block, Kiss Me, Kate’s leading lady, singing Cole Porter’s ‘So In Love’ alongside a baby grand piano in our iconic conservatory.

Watch as artist, Francis Alÿs, and artistic collaborator, Rafael Ortega, discuss how games and creativity help children interact with their environments, and contextualise an adult world beyond their understanding.

ScreenTalk with director Yorgos Lanthimos joins actors Emma Stone and Jesse Plemmons 

Watch Soufiane Ababri discuss his exhibition in our Curve gallery

ScreenTalk with director and co-writer Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding

ScreenTalk with writer & director Alex Garland 

We sat down with artist Ibrahim Mahama to talk to him about our latest commission Purple Hibiscus, which sees 2000 square metres of vibrant, hand-woven fabric from Ghana envelop our Lakeside facade.

Get lost in this beautiful footage from Ghana, documenting how the fabric for Ibrahim Mahama’s Purple Hibiscus was created. 

Watch the transformation of our Lakeside Terrace as Ibrahim Mahama’s Purple Hibiscus was installed over several weeks. 

In this Barbican Session, clarinettist Anthony McGill performs Three Smiles for Tracey by American composer Adolphus Hailstork, filmed in the Garden Room.

In an exclusive film produced by DEZEEN our Curator Lotte Johnson talks us through some of her highlights from ‘Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art’.

A ScreenTalk with the iconic German director Wim Wenders and star Kôji Yakusho discussing their film Perfect Days, a beautiful, bittersweet drama set in Tokyo.