Read, Watch & Listen

We’re moving to the margins in a documentary short to explore ‘DIY Art’ as we meet performance collective, Figs in Wigs in their home. An ex-morgue.

In the first of our series of 'How to' workshops focussing on traditional crafts, tapestry weaver Christabel Balfour invites us in her South London studio for a weaving demonstration.

The first in our Subject to Change series, Katie Hale presents, ‘Honey’, inspired by an incident on 2 January when a Virgin Trains East Coast customer complained on Twitter about a male staff member’s passive aggressive use of the word ‘honey’.

In the first of our year-long series of short films exploring The Art of Change, London-based, Swedish animation director Amanda Eliasson presents her interpretation of ‘Censorship’ in her hand-painted animation, Square Face.

Mercury-nominated Soul singer Carleen Anderson performs her song 'Before Me' from her latest album 'Cage Street Memorial'.

Poet and rapper Jack Miguel performs his piece 'Casino', inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat's work, in the 'Self-Portrait' room of the 'Basquiat: Boom for Real' exhibition.

London-based electronic musician felicita performs Track 6 from the 2016 'a new family' EP in our Conservatory.

Join Barbican curator Eleanor Nairne and Gus Casely-Hayford as they look around the 'Encyclopedia' room in our Basquiat: Boom For Real exhibition and discuss the wide range of influences Jean Michel Basquiat brought into his paintings.

Black Top, the duo of multi-instrumentalist Orphy Robinson and pianist Pat Thomas, perform a live concert after hours in our 'Basquiat: Boom for Real' exhibition.

Curator Diego Cortez shares his reflections on knowing and working with Basquiat and guides us around the exhibition's partial recreation of Basquiat's first exhibition, 'New York / New Wave' at P.S.1, curated by Cortez in 1981

We caught up with Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) to discuss one of the best-known projects of SANAA, the Moriyama House, now recreated inside our Gallery as part of The Japanese House exhibition.

Artist and choreographer, Trajal Harrell, joins our curator Leila Hasham in conversation as he prepares to open the first major survey of his work in the UK, Trajal Harrell: Hoochie Koochie.