The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain

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The Barbican marks its anniversary with an updating of the project Songs In The Key Of London on Sat 5 Mar 2022, Barbican Hall. https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/our-archive/about-the-archive Lisa Mullen talks to Elain Harwood, Senior Investigator with Historic England; Beryl Pong, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in English at the University of Sheffield and Michael Peppiatt, art historian, curator and writer. Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965 runs from Thu 3 Mar—Sun 26 Jun 2022, at the Barbican Art Gallery. A book to accompany the exhibition is published by Prestel. Historic England: Championing England's heritage: https://historicengland.org.uk/ Space, Hope and Brutalism, English architecture 1945-1975 by Elain Harwood (Yale University Press) is available now. British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime by Beryl Pong (Oxford University Press) is out now. Michael Peppiat: www.michaelpeppiatt.com/biography/ The Francis Bacon: Man and Beast exhibition is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London until 17 April, 2022: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/francis-bacon Producer: Jayne Egerton Image: Foyers, Barbican Centre, London. Image credit: Max Colson