Read, Watch & Listen

Learn how to make your very own paper Totoro puppet in part 1 of this workshop, inspired by the beautiful Studio Ghibli film, My Neighbor Totoro. 
 

Basquiat had a personal collection of more than 3,000 records and his works abounded with references to jazz and blues. Discover how music became a powerful source of inspiration for his work. 
 

Star in your own show, have fun transforming household items into characters and scenery, and create your own sensory journey.

Watch Rhiannon Faith Company's DROWNTOWN LOCKDOWN, a prologue to the stage production, DROWNTOWN.

To mark the release of Icelandic psychological drama-thriller A White White Day, our cinema curators have picked their top films set in the remotest locations.

Back to Britten's centenary year and November 2013 when director Netia Jones staged a unique, beautiful performance of Curlew River at St Giles, Cripplegate, with musical director William Lacey and singer, Ian Bostridge.

New York photographer Bruce Gilden talks to Strange and Familiar curator – and personal friend – Martin Parr about his introduction to photography, black and white versus vibrant colour and why we should take a closer look at people in the street...

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s drawings conjure complex human stories.

In 2019, we invited a collective of multidisciplinary artists to explore what it means to be human as part of Life Rewired. Design Yourself collective member, Tice Cin looks back at the project. 

Remi Graves presents a poem, inspired by "the disproportionate amount of deaths of black people during the Covid-19 pandemic in the USA and UK, and the recent, yet brief media resurgence of interest in systemic racism and police brutality".

Revisit this in-depth interview with composer Michael Nyman exploring the story of how over forty years ago, the Michael Nyman Band, were conjured into existence.
 

Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson joins curator Leila Hasham in conversation during his long overdue UK solo exhibition which took place at the Barbican in 2016.