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‘Guess what, I’m alive!’: How New York artist Alice Neel seduced us with her fearless, fleshy portraits

The biggest exhibition of Alice Neel’s portraits in the UK to date opens this week at the Barbican. Eloise Hendy explores the life of an artist whose canvases captured everyone from Andy Warhol to the socially marginalised

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LSO/Pappano review – a serving of big-boned late-romantic symphonism

Barbican, London Pappano leads the LSO with terrifying finesse for Coleridge-Taylor, Strauss and Liszt works, in anticipation of his new role as chief conductor in 2024

The Guardian - UK

Into the Void: the four-storey Barbican shell set to become a £3.5m home

Having bought the space in 2006 for £200,000, a former solicitor aims to sell the one-off 3,097 sq ft brutalist space to developers

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Don’t look into the wardrobe: are Peeping Tom the world’s freakiest theatre troupe?

The Belgian dance-theatre company love to create unnerving environments – and are set to put the apocalypse on stage. They talk about their taboo-trouncing shows

The Guardian - UK

The Museum of London: a fundamental clash as the City of London dreams on

As the museum prepares to leave its 70s home, plans to raze the site and build an office-led new complex have sparked a battle with those who want to repurpose what’s already there

The Guardian - UK

‘I wanted to show their innocence’: teenage drill rappers take centre stage in bold new play

As a sellout show at the Barbican unpicks the links between musicians, police and youth violence, its creator explains why it’s the middle classes who need to sit up and listen

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro transfers to the West End: how the RSC turned a cult cartoon into a must-see theatre show

The creative team give the inside story on how they adapted the much-loved Studio Ghibli animation, breaking sales records in the process

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The Divine Comedy residency at the Barbican review: no pyrotechnics but not lacking in showmanship

Frontman Neil Hannon gained confidence and swagger over the course of the night

Evening Standard

Jane Birkin review – electrifying moments from a singer with remarkable poise

Birkin’s voice is as bewitching as ever in this show that looks back on everything from the Gainsbourg years to her graceful recent album

The Guardian - UK

Herbie Hancock at the Barbican gig review: 82 and still thrillingly unpredictable

A fine ensemble supported the veteran jazz man, but he was the undisputed star

Evening Standard

John Waters: False Negative review – no sacred cow is safe from the ‘sultan of sleaze’

Barbican, LondonThe veteran film-maker is on fine form in this motor-mouthed show, which mixes slick anecdotes with gleeful transgression

The Guardian - UK

Largest and most expensive home in the Barbican Estate is former management office now for sale for £4.5 million

The street-level home was once the management office for the 1960’s housing estate. Now, it’s for sale for a cool £4.5 million.

Evening Standard

Designers chosen for multi-million pound Barbican renewal

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Shark species pictured swimming in UK city harbour as locals stunned by 'cool' sight

Sam Booth and her son took incredible photographs which capture the long, narrow shark up close, swimming along the water's surface on the Barbican

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Couple pick one-bed flat on housing estate over large country home with swimming pool

Miranda Quigley, 54, and her husband moved into a one-bed one-bathroom flat in the Barbican in September, leaving behind their Hertfordshire family home - which boasts stunning features including a swimming pool and massive garden

The Guardian - UK

Pollution back at illegal levels on former ‘zero-emissions street’ in London

Experimental ban on petrol and diesel vehicles on Beech Street near Barbican ended in September

Birmingham Post

Devon's growing Flapjackery to open store in listed Plymouth building

Company set up by two women in their kitchens now turns over more than £1m a year and is taking on the former Yarmouth Stores outlet in the Barbican

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dogs of Europe; Cock – reviews

Barbican; Ambassadors theatre, LondonThe exiled Belarus Free Theatre offers a frightening, timely vision of a divided Europe, and Taron Egerton brings emotive power to Mike Bartlett’s exploration of sexuality

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A great exhibition of immigrant art. Why not pay a visit, Priti Patel?

The Conservative frontbench could learn a thing or two from the works on show at Postwar Modern at the Barbican

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Così fan tutte; Czech Philharmonic/CBSO Chorus/Bychkov

Coliseum, London; Barbican, LondonENO’s fizzy production of Mozart’s masterpiece lands well in dark times, while a Czech performance of Janáček and Dvořák summons life-affirming spirit

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Golden Cockerel; LSO/Christophers: The Creation; Bath Festival Orchestra

ETO’s production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s satirical opera is uncomfortably timely; the Barbican celebrates its 40th with Haydn; and a 1962 work gets a long overdue UK premiere

The Guardian - UK

Brutal reality of living in the Barbican

Letter: Forty years after the development of the centre, William Edmead remembers life in the block wasn’t quite how it was conceived to be

The Guardian - AU

Tuesday briefing: Russian convoy bears down on Kyiv

‘Horrendous’ attacks on civilians and bombing of military bases add to death toll … Biden to deliver first state of the union … and the Barbican turns 40

Evening Standard

Australian arts boss returns to take Barbican helm

A Londoner who helped run the Sydney Opera House is returning to the capital to take charge at the Barbican.

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