Love, Magic and Power
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Whether priceless family heirlooms, or the most modern of costume creations, almost everyone has a piece of jewellery that is precious in a personal sense. This exhibition will examine the human fascination with jewellery, tracing its importance and symbolism from ancient times to the present day. The objects included ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Quilts at Victoria and Albert Museum
Quilts are valued as objects of solace and comfort, representing warmth, safekeeping, beauty and our ancestral past. As vessels for individual and collective memories, they also document love and marriage, births and deaths, periods of intense patriotic fervour and developments in taste and fashion. The extraordinary variety of each object testifie ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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London
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United Kingdom
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Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
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This will be the first major exhibition on Horace Walpole, the most important English collector of the eighteenth century, and will bring together many of his most remarkable objects. Walpole was the first to systematically assemble the visual evidence of English history, and the first to recognise the importance of t ...
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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London
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United Kingdom
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Michaela Crimmin: Green Talk
Join RSA Head of Arts Michaela Crimmin for a closer look at selected works in the exhibition
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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With and Against Nature
A conversation on architecture in direct dialogue with the natural world. Michael Pawlyn, pioneer of biomimicry, presents Exploration Architecture’s designs for a self-irrigating greenhouse in the Sahara desert, whilst Hugh Broughton showcases his practice’s Antarctic outposts, including the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI.
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Redgrave Suite, Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Playing with Numbers
Come and play games with shapes, puzzles and conundrums inspired by nature’s maths with mathematicians from Oxford University and artists from the Royal College of Art.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Emma Ridgway: Green Talk
Join RSA Curator Emma Ridgway for a closer look at selected works in the exhibition.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Robert Kusmirowski The Bunker
For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Polish artist Robert Kusmirowksi transforms The Curve into a World War Two-era bunker. This highly atmospheric installation transports viewers to another reality.
Renowned for meticulous simulations of historical settings, Kusmirowski’s installations challenge the notion of the real. A hybrid of the arti ...
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The Curve, Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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DESIGN OVERTIME - Festival
A last chance to see Super Contemporary at a spectacular late opening - not only is it the London Design Festival but it’s our 20th birthday too! See the shows, take part in debates and workshops set to a blend of Design Overtime music and entertainment. Using cake making as your design discipline, bake a noble expression of iconic design celebrati ...
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Design Museum
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London
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United Kingdom
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Translocal: Green Talk
Curatorial collective Translocal, Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes, guide you through the exhibition, revealing the interconnectedness of environmental issues, the demand for sustainability and global politics.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Free International University and Social Sculpture Now
Shelley Sacks and Wolfgang Zumdick from the Social Sculpture Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University, discuss Joseph Beuys’ Free International University. This legendary itinerant institution promoted the restoration of our relationship with nature through lectures, actions and discussions.
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Redgrave Suite, Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Leonora Oppenheim: Green Talk
Sustainable design consultant with Elio Studio and writer at TreeHugger, Leonora Oppenheim takes a closer look at the works on display.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Quest for Eden
Is there anything left to explore? What do TV and film contribute to our eternal search for a noble human civilisation? Is the contemporary traveller the creator of fictions, a documenter of the undiscovered or an unwelcome intrusion?
Join Benedict Allen, explorer and presenter of 6 BBC television series including Last of the Medicine Men and I ...
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Redgrave Suite, , Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Joel Robinson: Green Talk
Lecturer in Art History, Open University, and author of Life in Ruins, Joel Robinson looks at how art and architecture interact with nature.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Art of being a Maggot
Watch maggots paint and learn how they smell, with the university of Manchester’s celebrity maggot man Dr Matthew Cobb and students. ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Pestival 2009 - Information Point
Welcome to Pestival 2009, where we celebrate insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Meet here to find out more about this ’rare and wonderful celebration of the creepy crawly (The Independent), pick up your Pestival map and collect your Southbank Centre insect survey card. ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Francesco Manacorda: Green Talk
Join Francesco Manacorda, Curator, Barbican Art Gallery for a closer look at selected works in the exhibition.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Cape Farewell: Art and Climate Change
Cape Farewell pioneers a cultural response to climate change. Working internationally, it brings artists, scientists and communicators together to stimulate the production of art founded in scientific research.Choreographer Siobhan Davies, curator Greg Hilty and writer and literary manager at the Royal Court Theatre, Ruth Little, discuss art and en ...
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Redgrave Suite, Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Ariella Yedgar: Green Talk
Join Ariella Yedgar, Assitant Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, for a tour of the exhibition and a closer look at some of the works.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Aqua-tecture
Discover extraordinary examples of architecture designed for and inspired by the sea. With Cesar Harada and other members of the Open_Sailing project, along with Ari Speinhoff who worked with visionary architect Wolf Hilbertz and his Biorock coral structures.
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Redgrave Suite, Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Christopher Woodward: Green Talk
Follow Christopher Woodward, Director of the Garden Museum, as he guides us through the exhibition and how artists get involved with gardens.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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EXPLORING THE HOUSE OF WORDS
Janice West and Tessa Peters, curators of The House of Words exhibition, give an informal tour of the exhibition.
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Dr. Johnsons House
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London
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United Kingdom
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ARTIST'S TALK: Caroline Broadhead
Hear Jerwood prize-winning artist Caroline Broadhead talk about her work for the House of Words exhibition, with time for questions.
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Dr. Johnsons House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Shake, Radical, Roll
Make your own instruments inspired by the natural environment of the Barbican Conservatory. Drop-in workshop.
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Barbican Conservatory
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London
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United Kingdom
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Philippe Rahm
See and hear how music is used to create an architectural intervention inside the gallery space with the replaying of a newly commissioned work by Swiss architect Philippe Rahm. Five wind instrumentalists play 10 Pieces for Wind Quintet, a composition by Gyorgy Ligeti, as their breath fills an inflatable musical balloon.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Michelle Cotton on Poor Old Tired Horse
Michelle Cotton, curator at Londons Cubitt gallery, gives a talk on the exhibition. ...
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ICA
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London
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United Kingdom
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London Bus Project
The work shown in James Bigham’s latest project is born out of his love for his home city. This show is a marriage of James’ want to link his style of art work to a series of journeys he has made on London buses from one end of the route to another. The drawings and images displayed are coded representations of elements of the journey, such as moti ...
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Barbican Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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Heather and Ivan Morrison: Green Talk
Join the artists Heather and Ivan Morrison for a talk about their practice. Learn about their acquisition of a Welsh woodland and how they are developing it into an arboretum.
Free to same day ticket holders
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Dominik Czechowski: Green Talk
Join Dominik Czechowski, Exhibition Assistant, Barbican Art Gallery, for a closer look at the exhibition.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Futureproofing the City
Three different approaches to the question of sustainable living. Gerard Evenden, Foster + Partners, presents their design for Masdar, an entirely selfsustaining ‘city from zero’ in the Arabian desert, Susannah Hagan, R/E/D, addresses how to retro-fit the rapidly sprawling metropolis, taking Sao Paulo as a case study, and Bill Dunster, architect of ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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United Underground
Across the spaces of Southbank Centres Queen Elizabeth Hall building and hosted by Riz MC, British Underground and Ctrl.Alt.Shift, United Underground is a unique mix of cutting-edge street culture, club music, artwork and design set against a backdrop of new-school activism. With live performances from a range of guest artists, spanning day into ni ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Thomas Hirschhorn
One of the most persuasive and outspoken speakers among contemporary art practitioners. Hirschhorn’s installations and community-specific projects astutely reference and intersect philosophy, popular culture, economics and politics. During this talk Hirschhorn will principally address his work, Cavemanman, presented in Walking in My Mind, where he ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Caroline Tisdall: Green Talk
Eminent art historian Professor Caroline Tisdall, a long time collaborator of Joseph Beuys, offers a reminiscent talk of her time with the artist.
Free to same day ticket holders.
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Barbican Art Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Joseph Beuys: Arena
Screening of BBC2’s acclaimed series, Joseph Beuys – Arena (1987) written and directed by Caroline Tisdall with Christopher Swain, one of the mostprovocative and in-depth looks at the work of Beuys on film.
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Redgrave Suite, Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Charlotte Bonham Carter on Poor Old Tired Horse
Assistant curator Charlotte Bonham-Carter delivers a talk on the exhibition.
This talk will be signed in British Sign Language by Richard Law. ...
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ICA
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London
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United Kingdom
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Dan Graham in Conversation with Anna Lovatt
Celebrated artist Dan Graham and Anna Lovatt, lecturer in art history at the University of Nottingham, address 1960s art with special reference to the drawings of Robert Smithson.
The evening is co-hosted by the ICA and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. ...
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ICA
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London
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United Kingdom
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