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Feeling inspired by Jean Dubuffet's work? Discover his top tips for artists in this short film. 

Another week in the archive as Ben Eshmade spends time immersed in 2015’s Transcender festival revelling in the ecstatic, devotional and psychedelic music of Atom TM and Robin Fox, Arifa, Faiz Ali Faiz and Leo Abrahams and David Coulter. 

The Barbican Young Poets cohort of 2020 was due to present a showcase at the Barbican just before COVID-19 changed everyday life and the ability to commune together safely in person. 

Brazilian artist Mulambö' joins Francesca Laura Cavallo in conversation as part of Brazil Footprint 0.0.

Join biologist, artist, educator, and drag queen from the Amazon, Uýra Sodoma - part of our Brazil Footprint 0.0 talks series.
 

Watch a conversation between indigenous curator and scholar Naine Terena and Francesca Laura Cavallo from the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent.

This week's archive find sees us celebrate director Ben Wheatley through his dystopian film High-Rise and its follow-up the pulp gangster thriller, Free Fire.

Curator of our current exhibition, Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle, Thyago Nogueira speaks to photographer Tommaso Protti about being awarded the Carmignac Photojournalism Award for his work in the Amazon.

A conversation with some of the filmmakers and activists featured in the Have You Ever Seen a River Stop? film programme.

This month, Young Creative Hector Dyer presents 'the sun sets' in collaboration with Jemima Yong, inspired by 'Operation Moonshot', the leaked document in the British Medical Journal in which the UK government planned to carry out 10m rapid Covid tests a day by early 2021.

We encounter some timeless music assembled through improvisation, editing and sound collage in this archive episode exploring the legacy of Can, recorded around their Barbican concert in April 2017.

We head to the scuzzy streets and broken dreams of 80s New York City with director Susan Seidelman to look back at 2017's The Grime and the Glamour film season, featuring Seidelman's debut film Smithereens and Desperately Seeking Susan.