“The male body is under the spotlight,” says Alona Pardo, a curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London who has organized a hit show on masculinity in its many guises and meanings. The exhibition ...

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The Barbican is irrefutably one of London’s most significant architectural destinations, so it seems particularly apt that the latest exhibition to be showcased within the confines of its Brutalist ...

Two children roll a toy pushchair across a rain-slickened street next to a demolished building. A man sits alone on a bench in a park, while an armchair sits empty in a living room. All these ...

Considering that the world’s very first photograph – or rather, the earliest known photograph made with a camera, the View from the Window at Le Gras by French scientist and inventor Joseph Nicéphore ...

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“You can’t live in a household that is too well kept,” Henri Matisse once said. “You have to head for the jungle to find simpler ways that won’t stifle the spirit.” At the time, the French artist was ...

Constructing Worlds at the Barbican Centre is a surprisingly emotive photography exhibition that charts the impact of architecture on the global landscape over the past 100 years. From Depression-era ...

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Dorothea Lange’s images of Thirties’ sharecroppers, fruit pickers and Dust Bowl refugees have come to sum up both the atmosphere of Depression-era America and the notion of socially committed ...