Barbican Unveils 2008-09 Lineup

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Robert Capa, the war photographer who died stepping on a land mine in Indochina, will share the spotlight with architect Le Corbusier and choreographer Mark Morris in the London Barbican Centre’s 2008-09 season.

The Barbican will also start a development fund to lure corporate and individual donations. Europe’s largest multidisciplinary arts complex costs 33 million pounds ($65 million) a year to run, 19 million pounds of which are provided by the City of London Corporation, the local authority that runs London’s financial district.

The Capa show — “This Is War! Robert Capa at Work” (October 17, 2008, through January 25, 2009) — will include contents of the recently found “Mexican suitcase” containing thousands of his Spanish Civil War negatives, and reopen the debate about whether his image of the Spanish soldier being shot was staged or not. Works by his fellow war photographer and lover Gerda Taro, who died in action at age 27, will be exhibited simultaneously.

Capa will be followed by Le Corbusier (February 19, 2009, through May 24, 2009), whose style inspired the 26-year-old Barbican Centre’s own building.

Architectural models, drawings, furniture, murals, sculptures, and books will mark the architect’s first major London survey in more than 20 years. Pieces by Fernand Leger and other artists he worked with will also be shown.

The Mark Morris Dance Group, together with the Barbican’s resident London Symphony Orchestra, will perform the original chamber-orchestra version of Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.”


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