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Radical Nature: Art & Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009

This event has now finished Until Oct 18 2009 Barbican Centre, Silk St, London, EC2Y 8DS Full details & map

Art: Art museums & institutions

Critics' choice
Tomas Saraceno, 'Flying Garden' (detail), 2006 Tomas Saraceno, 'Flying Garden' (detail), 2006

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The exhibition plots a nebulous path through various miscellaneous or often rather whimsical concepts - taxonomy, botanical cultivation, a floating 'embassy' for communicating with dolphins - while spuriously trying to tie them together into some kind of history of nature-related art. As a result, and despite some occasionally interesting works, 'Radical Nature' is ultimately rather disappointing, a curious mix of the didactic and the directionless. (GC)

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The Barbican Centre, a vast concrete estate of 2,000 flats and a leading arts complex, is a prime example of brutalist architecture, softened a...

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Main gallery 11am-8pm Mon, Tue, Fri, Sun; until 6pm Wed; until 10pm Thur, 10am-8pm Sat. The Curve 11am-8pm daily

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By Clare - Aug 4 2009

You recommend this as a critics choice in top 25 things to do before the end of summer...then the write up above doesn't really sell it. Is it worth going to?

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By Anon - Jul 31 2009

The review is somewhat inconsistent with it being a *Critics Choice of London Events.

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