Read, Watch & Listen

Assistant curator Jilke Golbach unpacks the story behind Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ photograph.

London-based jewellery designer Jennifer Campbell is the latest maker to be showcased in the Barbican Shop as part of our Makers initiative. Taking inspiration from both natural and artificial objects, her jewellery designs cross the boundary between painting, sculpture and fashion.

With a riot of colour - and a stunning portrait of the Barbican - filmmaker Lexi Kiddo responds to this month's theme, LGBT, through dance and poetry.

London Symphony Orchestra’s co-principal trombonist, Peter Moore, performs 'Doolallynastics – a brief torture for solo trombone’ by Brian Lynn in our latest Barbican Session, filmed in one of our Frobisher Auditoriums. 
 

A playlist featuring some of our favourite Japanese artists. From the ambient electronica of Ryuichi Sakamoto to the Noise Rock of Boredoms - we shine a light on the nation's innovative musical past and present.

What does it mean to be a 'change maker'? We've been working with students and teachers from one of Britain’s largest secondary schools, Sydney Russell School in Barking & Dagenham to explore that question...

For July’s poem, Annie Hayter reflects on the relationship between sexual abuse and denial, in the wake of recent revelations.

Music has a unique role to play in war time. Dr Kate Kennedy looks at a number of solider-composers from World War I, from different backgrounds and nations, exploring the vital importance of music for survival.

This month, Richard Dixon Wheatley’s film, DYSTOPIA, uses spoken word to reflect on what ‘community’ means in today’s society.

We look back through the life and work of pioneering documentary photographer and visual activist, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) to coincide with the first UK retrospective of her work, 'Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing'.

In an extract from 'Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds' exhibition catalogue, photography historian David Chandler reflects on Winship’s Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation award-winning body of work: she dances on Jackson.

For our latest Barbican Session, English folk rock musician Keaton Henson performs an Impromptu on a theme from 'Six Lethargies' in the Barbican Library.