Read, Watch & Listen

Guitarist Sean Shibe plays the world premiere of Daniel Kidane’s Haze, commissioned by the Barbican, in an empty Barbican Hall.

In this short film, we explore the striking parallels between the life and works of Dubuffet and Basquiat.

Curator Thyago Nogueira and Barbican curator Alona Pardo discuss the exhibition, Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle, in The Curve.

To celebrate our 'Autism and Cinema' season, Luís Azevedo (aka Beyond the Frame) looks at the way cinema has depicted autistic characters, and considers how the language of cinema can be challenged and changed by autistic perspectives.

Artist Javie Huxley shows us how to make masks and play a special version of hide and seek, inspired by Steven Spielberg’s classic film, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.  

Musician Adam Green joins curator Eleanor Nairne for a special evening discussing his 2016 film, Aladdin, his favourite artworks and Dubuffet's influence on his creativity. 

Watch our documentary series as we meet Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar as she remembers her first encounter with the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous peoples, and describes how her series of photographs came about.

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

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.

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.