The Barbican is now presenting Encounters: Giacometti x Lynda Benglis, the third and final in a series of three exhibitions organised in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, Paris. Subtitled Back at Ya, the exhibition features a never before exhibited body of works by Lynda Benglis (b. 1941, Lake Charles, Louisiana) and historic works by Alberto Giacometti (b.1901-1966, Borgonovo, Switzerland), and will be a highlight of the Barbican’s Spring 2026 season.
I visited last Friday and was absolutely entranced by Benglis’s work, which I had never encountered before, so I enthusiastically recommend you come to see the exhibition too. You can find more detail here.
There follows some of the images I took but I suggest you first read a couple of reviews in order to give them context. Here’s a piece from the Pace Galleries and here’s one from East End Review.
There is a useful free guide to all the exhibits …
Here are some if the images I took. The first two are Giacometti’s Woman with Chariot, 1943-45 …
Here are my blogs on the first two exhibitions: Giacometti + Huma Bhabha and Giacometti + Mona Hatoum.
The Broadgate area near Liverpool Street has been substantially redeveloped so I popped in again for the first time in years to see if one of my favourite sculptures was still there. And hooray, it still is, and much more sympathetically sited than the last time I visited. Here it is, Leaping Hare on Crescent and Bell by Barry Flanagan (1941-2009) …
Barry tragically died from motor neurone disease at the age of 68. You can find a nice obituary from The Guardian newspaper here.
I came across the This Grief Thing pop up shop in the Barbican Centre last Saturday …
It’s in the Centre again this Saturday, 21st, and Sunday 22nd. You can read more on their website here.
Tower 42 went romantic on St Valentine’s Day …
Finally, little yellow flowers always cheer me up when the weather is miserable …
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