Exhibition
Modern Couples Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
10 Oct 2018 – 27 Jan 2019
Barbican Centre
London, United Kingdom
Art Tour
Audio-described tour of Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
28 Nov 2018
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
Cost of entry
£5
Address
- Silk Street
- London
- EC2Y 8DS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Moorgate / Barbican
Event map
An audio-described tour of the exhibition Modern Couples, suitable for Blind and visually impaired visitors.
About
This tour, led by Lisa Squirrel, will highlight key artworks on display in the exhibition.
Explore modern art and modern love; Modern Couples reveals how relationships can become a playground for creativity.
Featuring the biggest names in Modern Art, Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. Meet the artist couples that forged new ways of making art and of living and loving. The exhibition illuminates these creative and personal relationships, from the obsessional and fleeting to the life-long.
Including Dora Maar & Pablo Picasso; Salvador Dalí & Frederico García Lorca; Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin; Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera; Emile Flöge & Gustav Klimt – plus many more.
