Lee Krasner: Painting as Life

What does it mean to be a man today?

We take a walk around the Barbican exhibition, 'Masculinities: Liberation through Photography' to learn more about masculinity in its many forms.

Palingenesis by Lee Krasner

A riot of raspberry and green - take a closer look at Lee Krasner's 'Palingenesis' from 1971.

Portrait in Green by Lee Krasner

With its swirling green hues dancing across the canvas, take a closer look at Lee Krasner's 'Portrait in Green' from 1969.

Kufic by Lee Krasner

Take a moment of contemplation with Lee Krasner's 'Kufic' from 1965.

How are contemporary artists rediscovering Lee Krasner's work?

21 ways you can interact with AI

Artist Es Devlin on conceiving POEMPORTRAITS

25 moments that have defined AI

Look through some of the key dates and developments in mathematics, computing, science and culture that has led to the artificial intelligence that we know today.

The story of AlphaGo

The first computer program to defeat a Go world champion

Life Rewired Shorts: Kasaragod Boys

Life Rewired Shorts: Wifi in the Glen

How much do you rely on technology? Meet the residents of a remote community in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.

Life Rewired Shorts: The Children of Tomorrow

How could the potential of technology impact the way we perceive reproduction and ultimately human life?

Life Rewired Shorts: Uncanny Valley

Life Rewired Shorts: The Last Forever Woman

What if you could live forever but just didn’t want to?

Art at the Barbican

From architecture and design to fashion and photography, we take a look through some of the highlights from our Art Gallery and The Curve from recent years.

Building the Brutal

The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined

Discover the challenging and utterly compelling question of how fashion revels in, exploits and ultimately overturns the prevailing limits of taste

Artists & Activists: Second Wave Feminist Filmmakers

We look back through some of the defining films from the Second Wave feminist filmmakers that began to lead the way for a new generation of female filmmakers.

Nevertheless She Persisted: Suffrage, cinema and beyond

Meet some of the women from around the world that everyone should know about....

Inside Casa Susanna

We explore life at Casa Susanna, at a retreat in New Jersey for men who chose to dress as women.

Women & The Art of Change

We celebrate women and their influence on the arts in some of the highlights from the Barbican's annual theme, The Art of Change.

How to coexist with intelligent agents

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

What is the internet doing to our bodies?

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

How your mobile came to rule your life

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

How is technology changing fashion?

Sarah Ditty delves into the past - and future - of fashion

How has digital changed our perception of time?

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

How will technology change our worklife?

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

[Kode9] Assembling ourselves

Kode9

How to respond to online abuse, censorship and extremism?

The Barbican Time Capsule

Celebrating 40 years since the Barbican Centre opened

The story of deep neural networks and hallucinogenic images

The Barbican Lakeside

The design behind the Barbican's waterways

Digitising the Archive: Behind the Scenes

See how the archive was photographed

What might gender, identity and individuality look like in the future?

Barbican Roof Plan

Mapping the Barbican during construction

Barbican Penthouses

For those who like the high life

Conservation: Before and After

See how these items from the Barbican's collection were restored

How was the Barbican built?

Behind the construction process

What was here before the Barbican?

The history of the Barbican site

Meet your synthetic self

Digital art and design collective, Universal Everything present their new installation, 'Future You'.

The Barbican Podium

Mapping the Barbican walkways

Concrete and Cornflowers: Beech Gardens

Changing the Barbican's green spaces

What is the Barbican?

An introduction to the Barbican

Ken Briggs Collection: The Barbican Diaries

Designing our monthly guide in 1982

Willoughby House, the Podium and the Lost Pubs

Exploring the Barbican above street level

In Focus: Cromwell Tower

Discover one of the Barbican's three towers

Barbican Flats: Layout and Fittings

Barbican living

The First Exhibition in the Barbican Art Gallery

Why was it controversial to start with French art?

In Focus: Lauderdale Tower

The furthest west of the Estate's three towers

MIT: Spring All Year for Bees and Humans with The Synthetic Apiary

We discover how MIT's The Mediated Matter Group has created a space where seasonal honeybees can produce honey all year round.

The Barbican Library

Learn about the most original part of the Centre

Who were the Barbican Estate flats for?

Unusual homes in the Square Mile

Finding a way into the Barbican

Mapping people and transport

The Barbican Fireman and Milton Court

Discover a little known piece of the Barbican's history

Barbican Cinema 1

The Barbican's biggest screen

Perspective Drawing: The Theatre

Imagining the Barbican Theatre

Sunshowers: AI through the lens of Japanese Shinto

Sam Twidale and Marija Avramovic create a real time animation in a special commission for the Barbican's AI: More than Human exhibition.

Business at the Barbican

The Centre for Arts and Conferences

The Theatre and Concert Hall

World-class spaces originally built for our resident companies

Leisure at the Barbican

Explore the gardens, shops and sports facilities

Ken Briggs Collection: Design In Situ

Documentation of the Barbican's original signage

Joy Buolamwini: examining racial and gender bias in facial analysis software

MIT CSAIL: Swimming with the Robot Fishes

The Barbican Bombsite

Photographic Evidence

Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics

Experience a vivid journey through the art of visual storytelling across Asia in the Barbican International Enterprises' exhibition.

Inside a Barbican engineer's scrapbook

Jack Waller's documentation of the Barbican build

What were the Barbican muses?

Learn about the 1991 addition to Silk Street

Ken Briggs Collection: The Logo

The Barbican's first visual identity

The Barbican Conservatory

Discover our oasis in the heart of the City