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On my radar: Ardal O’Hanlon’s cultural highlights

The Father Ted actor on laughing out loud at Jamie Demetriou, an architectural pilgrimage to Pennsylvania and where to find Dublin’s fanciest artichoke

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro to return to the Barbican

The Studio Ghibli adaptation, which is up for nine Olivier awards this weekend, will open in November

The Guardian - UK

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead at the Barbican review: a loyal but innovative adaptation

The production wonderfully brings to life the dry comedy and compelling strangeness of the original text

Evening Standard

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Things to do in London this weekend (February 17 — 19)

From the final tickets for a Filipino pop-up to a brand new Barbican exhibition, Mike Daw picks what to get up to in London this weekend

Evening Standard

‘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

The Independent UK

Things to do in London this half term: The best things to get up to during the school break

From family film clubs to anime, to Kafka for kids and even a little piracy, Josh Barrie and Mike Daw have a guide to the ultimate half term fun

Evening Standard

London museum and gallery lates 2023: Best evening events and exhibitions from the Science Museum to Barbican

Looking for something cultural to do in London in the evening? Here’s our pick

Evening Standard

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The best new music to look forward to in 2023

Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

The Guardian - UK

‘Ticket Bank’ to offer free access to London theatre shows

Scheme will make 1,000 tickets available every week to those who cannot afford to pay for cultural activities

The Guardian - UK

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Harding review – gorgeous Mahler with expressionist edge

Daniel Harding led a modernist interpretation of Mahler’s Ninth full of fierce drama, eloquence and intensity, in the orchestra’s thrilling return to this hall

The Guardian - UK

How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist

What connects a tea towel, a double-decker bus and a facial? The countertenor picks his 10 favourite tracks that distil the beauty of tears, pull at the heart strings and suspend time

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican review: it’s easier to admire this Studio Ghibli adaptation than love it

This show transposes the off-key weirdness of the original, but the story could use more jeopardy, darkness and more of the monsters

Evening Standard

Our top 12 shows to book now at the EFG London Jazz Festival 2022 from Nubiyan Twist to Melody Gardot

The pick of the shows from the event’s largest ever line-up

Evening Standard

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at Barbican - her brilliance as an artistic and political force never waned

This survey of work by the feminist art pioneer can get a bit chewy but the seminal pieces are a thrill

Evening Standard

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The Hindu

Architecture must obey the ecology of the land, says Vinu Daniel

The avant-garde architect’s creations in ‘clothcrete’ will be part of an exhibition on climate change in London

The Guardian - UK

Immersive exhibitions: the future of art or overpriced theme parks?

You can see Van Gogh’s brush strokes being applied or watch aliens dancing. But true immersion should mean more than just access to the latest tech

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Jonas Kaufmann/Diana Damrau/Helmut Deutsch; Royal Academy Opera

The peerless tenor and his companion turn Schumann and Brahms’s romantic duets into tiny operas, while the Royal Academy’s rising stars enchant… and mystify

The Guardian - UK

‘Two years ago it was impossible’: how tech turns dance into a multisensory fantasy

From the Barbican in London to shopping centres around the country, audiences can become part of sophisticated new XR dance spectaculars – diving into Lewis Carroll’s imagination or an extravagant ballroom

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Evening Standard

Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65 at Barbican Art Gallery review: suddenly of the moment

Just a week ago this might have seemed remote from our time. Not so anymore

The Guardian - UK

‘A brutalist hanging gardens of Babylon’ – the maddening, miraculous Barbican hits 40

Conceived as a utopian city within a city, the labyrinthine London landmark had a troubled path on its way to being hailed as an architectural icon. But is this world-class arts centre now in danger of being turned into a shopping mall?

The Guardian - UK

January design news: circular Levi’s and a Barbican birthday

Finnish feminist artists, award-winning craft at the Collect Craft Fair and a fashion/homeware collaboration

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