A review of Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle, a photography retrospective with a political and indigenous rights agenda. Beautiful and haunting, Andujar’s work is more important now than it has been in several decades. Who Are The Yanomami? “Ah yes, the Yanomami” said my other half when I came home after seeing this exhibition. “Everyone […]
A review of the Barbican’s major Dubuffet retrospective. Interesting to see the artist’s inspirations and impact, but not quite the same calibre as their 2020 offerings. Dubuffet, Champion of ‘Art Brut’ I was very excited to be back at the Barbican. Their exhibitions were a real high point on the cultural landscape in inter-lockdown London […]
My first foray into the Barbican Curve yields a resolutely futuristic ancient mythology from Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola. Toyin Ojih Odutola at the Barbican Curve This exhibition is totally different than anything else I saw in 2020. Both in terms of the medium and the works themselves, but also in terms of the concept […]
A review of the Barbican exhibition on Michael Clark. Another great exhibition that I could only see the Barbican putting on. The Barbican: London’s Home of Avant Garde Exhibitions I really love seeing exhibitions about artists I’m not at all familiar with, and this was no exception. The Barbican is particularly good for these exhibitions […]
Review of the exhibition Masculinities at the Barbican, and a visit to the Conservatory. In which I am impressed by the Barbican’s Covid provisions, have my horizons expanded, and finish with a relaxing walk among the plants. Back at the Barbican! The Barbican were among the first major London cultural institutions to put tickets on […]
“That was wackadoodle.” – Me, directly after seeing it. “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich?” – My SO, requesting a guest blogging spot. Wackadoodle in a good way? Partly. This collaboration between theatre and music, commissioned from Michael Sturminger by the Philharmonie Hamburg is currently touring an interesting variety of locations (London, Birmingham, Groningen), as necessitated by […]
I very much admire Complicite’s work. As you will have spotted from my reviews I’m more often drawn to big names when booking cultural outings, but Complicite is a theatre company I’m more than happy to take a chance on, even when it means spending a Sunday afternoon indoors reading German surtitles. This production didn’t […]
Waiting For Godot Let me preface this by saying I had only ever seen Beckett performed once before, and it was when I was living in Korea. It was a Chinese production. Played like traditional Chinese theatre. With surtitles in Korean and English. I left halfway through, by rationalising that the second half is […]
Antigone I wanted to like this production, I really did. I generally like the innovation of the theatre the Barbican put on, as well as the fact that they stage foreign language productions, challenging plays, and other bold choices. I’ve seen Juliette Binoche before, and she always seems reasonably good. This version of Antigone, […]
The central relationship explored in this exhibition is that between architecture and photography: how photographers have responded to the built environment around them, its static yet ever-changing nature, its central place in our lives; and how architecture, often through architects, has made use of photography. In order to shed light on this symbiotic give and […]
