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Death Note: The Musical review— all belt, no beckoning

A long-promised staging of the manga phenomenon reaches the Barbican with vibrant visuals and a punishing score — but its death gods barely haunt

Author: Gabriel Wilding

An ensemble on stage. A young man is lit up in the centre, people stand around him in black clothes with umbrella's under a futuristic skyline.

'Protest, resistance and revolution': Barbican announces Project a Black Planet

A summer-long season highlighting Pan-Africanism's influence on the arts

Author: Michelle Tonta

Abstract painting of two people in suits.

An homage to soil: Delcy Morelos returns the Barbican to its origins

Colombian artist Delcy Morelos will feature at the Barbican with a massive, scented earthen installation that explores our primal connection to the land

Author: Julia Silverberg

Artist Delcy Morelos holding a lump of earth standing next to a huge earthen sculpture

Beatriz González at Barbican Art Gallery – a harrowing history in pop art hues

The late Colombian artist's six-decade career is laid out in a vibrant retrospective this spring

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Beatriz González at Barbican Art Gallery – a harrowing history in pop art hues

Vincenzo Latronico: 'There are writers whose main theme is love or revolution — mine is real estate'

The Milanese author will discuss his widely-acclaimed novel 'Perfection' at the Barbican Centre next month

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Vincenzo Latronico: 'There are writers whose main theme is love or revolution — mine is real estate'

Encounters: Giacometti x Lynda Benglis – earthy dialogue with a pop of glitter

Artists Lynda Benglis and Alberto Giacometti may not be a natural pair on the surface, but in an exhibition at the Barbican, the parallels are plain to see

Author: Sarah Birch

Encounters: Giacometti x Lynda Benglis – earthy dialogue with a pop of glitter

Inside Before They Speak: Julia Phillips' visceral Barbican exhibition explores the body and human bonds

The German-American artist’s first solo show in the UK is a haunting experience, but it is well worth it

Author: Sarah Birch

Inside Before They Speak: Julia Phillips' visceral Barbican exhibition explores the body and human bonds

Pulitzer winner Alison Killing on the split second that forged her career

Alison Killing is best-known for her award-winning research into detention camps in Xinjiang, China, but the story that made her career could easily have passed her by

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Pulitzer winner Alison Killing on the split second that forged her career

World musicians to descend upon Barbican for Transcender festival

James Holden and Iranian singer Parisa among the performers at weekend event where diffuse musical traditions exist in harmony

Author: East End Review

Green Film Festival screens a global selection of eco-cinema at the Barbican

The event is back until 8 May with an array of new independent documentary films that highlight worldwide environmental struggles

Author: East End Review

A still from The Shore Break, one of the films to be screened at the Green Film Festival

Strange and Familiar exposes Britain through outsiders’ lenses

A fascinating exhibition at the Barbican captures a changing nation as well as charting the evolution of photography

Author: East End Review

Kinoteka Film Festival set to showcase best of Polish film history

This month East London venues will be showing films by some of the defining figures of Polish cinema

Author: East End Review