Read, Watch & Listen

'José' director, Li Cheng and actor Enrique Salanic, join us for a live ScreenTalk, hosted by Barbican curator, Alex Davidson.

In an archive interview, Ben Eshmade talks to Robert Henke about his audiovisual project Lumiere with interviews from July 2014 and February 2017.

To mark our long-time work and partnership with Doc’n Roll Film Festival, we asked festival programmer, Colm Forde, to select five of his favourite music docs and concert films available to watch online.

With no big budgets to fall back on, independent organisations got creative. We look at some of the independent film festivals behind this year's Leytonstone Loves Film festival. 

In an archive interview from March 2016, Ben Eshmade speaks to composer George Benjamin and counter tenor Iestyn Davies, just before the premiere of the then new work, Dream of the Song. 

Explore Lee Krasner’s fascination with nature and the impact this had on her work.

From our classical music archive - an interview with Riccardo Chailly, former principal conductor of Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, from October 2011, talking about his approach to performing the odyssey of the Beethoven symphony cycle at the Barbican.

Director Alvaro Delgado Aparicio joins Barbican curator Alex Davidson to discuss his BAFTA-nominated film, Retablo

Learn how to make fabric wolf feet and paper wolf ears, inspired by Where the Wild Things Are.

A multidisciplinary group of Barbican Young Creatives produce new, artistic work that explores the uncertain times we're living in.

Back in 2016 we spoke to some of the talent behind what was to be the winner of the 2017 Academy Award for Best Picture, Barry Jenkins' Moonlight - featuring interviews with writer Tarell Alvin McCraney and actors Travante Rhodes and Janelle Monáe.

Take a walk around our Masculinities exhibition in a full length tour with Barbican curator, Alona Pardo.