Read, Watch & Listen

Poet Anita Barton-Williams performs her piece Dear Lee, inspired by Lee Krasner's life and art

The experimental electronic duo use plastic trash and sampling to create a unique track filmed in the Life Rewired Hub.

In our brief history of the Abstract Expressionist movement, we write Lee Krasner back in to art history and explore how the turbulence of New York in the 1940s led to the vibrant and energetic art movement that put New York at the centre of the art world. 

Is meat grown in a lab vegetarian? 'Meet Meat' puts the idea of meat under the microscope to hear both sides of the argument as we look ahead to the future of food production. 

In the second of a series of three videos exploring contemporary artists’ responses to our Lee Krasner exhibition, artist Flora Yukhnovich talks to Katy Hessel (founder of The Great Women Artists) about her practice and what Krasner’s work means to her

Scottish multi-instrumentalist and producer Erland Cooper brings a tape machine, a piano and a cello together for an intimate performance in the Barbican Foyer.

The Barbican Conservatory is London's second largest conservatory, with over 1,800 species of plants and trees.

Head Gardener Marta reveals the secrets of this hidden oasis in the heart of the city.
 

We meet artist Chantal Joffe in her studio as she talks to Katy Hessel (founder of The Great Women Artists) about Lee Krasner's life, her paintings and what this new exhibition of her works mean for her.

Technology is rewiring our neurons and changing both our physical movements and inner thought processing. Klaas Diersmann presents an experimental and eerie depiction of our intimate yet divisive and compulsive relationships with these technologies.

For our most recent Barbican Session, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and prodigious whistler Andrew Bird performs ‘Sisyphus’ from his latest album My Finest Work Yet. 
 

Japanese sound designer Yuri Suzuki reimagines Raymond Scott's sixty-year-old electronic sequencer machine as a piece of music software that uses artificial intelligence to compose music.

What makes us human? Why do we fear artificial intelligence and robots? 'AI: More than Human' curators Suzanne Livingston and Maholo Uchida unpack the big questions explored in this interactive exhibition.