Read, Watch & Listen

Vybarr Cregan-Reid considers how the way we use tools changes the way we look.

We look back at our May 2019 Instagrammer, Silje Bergum to explore her Barbican shots.

Urvashi Aneja imagines four alternative futures for work in the global south.

Professor Denis Donoghue introduces the poems and Gideon Lester, Artistic Director of Fisher Center at Bard, visits the locations in T.S Eliot's masterpiece that inspired the multi-disciplinary performance.

Late-50s New York. In Greenwich Village bars and Times Square burger joints painters, writers, critics, musicians were making a new world. Filmmakers were right there too, advocating for freedom from convention.

Sarah Ditty delves into the past - and future - of fashion to see how technology might help improve how clothes are made and consumed.

Francis Gooding explores the birth of the British jazz scene and introduces the faces of a new wave.
 

Rebecca Coleman asks what ‘now’ means in a world where media is all-pervasive and always on.

We look back at our April 2019 Instagrammer, Giselle Jonte to explore her Barbican shots.

We celebrate ten years of Barbican Young Poets and talk to three alumni about their experience being on the project, where they are now, and the impact of poetry on their lives.

Jamie Bartlett wonders if attention is becoming the most precious resource we have.

As we build rivals to human intelligence, James Bridle looks at our relationship with the planet’s other alien consciousnesses.