Barbican
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Oscar Wilde haunted Reading jail, Helen Marten stormed the Hepworth, Philippe Parreno played invisible football – but nothing beat Ragnar Kjartansson, the wild man of Icelandic art, swinging from the rafters
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Gerald Barry’s challenging and ingenious new opera was superbly delivered in concert by the Britten Sinfonia under Thomas Adès and a fine cast of singers
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The diva brought sultriness and subtlety to a varied – if variable – song recital, accompanied by Julius Drake
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Taking in 500 years of fashion, and featuring over 40 designers, a new show collects garments that were, and are, considered to be of questionable taste
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The interiors of London’s most famous Brutalist housing estate are captured in a new book of photographs by Anton Rodriguez. Murray Healy reports
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Carlos Acosta bids a glorious goodbye, while Michael Clark keeps ploughing his weird and wonderful furrow
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Prodigy who emerged from New York art scene to become one of 1980s’ most celebrated artists gets first UK exhibition
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From London’s Barbican to Wiltshire and Yorkshire, these cutting-edge properties capture the architectural spirit of the age
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Prepare to be enchanted by the playful, melancholy, sociable art of Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson
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Robert Lepage’s wry and haunting 1991 piece about various brands of addiction was inspired by two great artists, and it lives up to their brilliance
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Watch a theatrical staging of Ken Loach’s drama, followed by a panel discussion about homelessness, filmed at the Barbican in London
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The director, actor and writer on remounting his 1989 show Needles and Opium
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Summer 2017 show will include concept art and models from the films Godzilla, Stargate and Dark City
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Huppert is a treat but even she struggles to make sense of a production that is at times close to insufferable
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A nightclub, restaurant strip and thatched roofs – in the haphazard squalor of the Calais refugee camp, residents have found a way to make tents feel like home
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Autumn show with clothes by Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier will explore renaissance to present day
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Antonio Papano offered a turbulent and heady account of Elgar’s Second Symphony, fixing it firmly in the post-Romantic tradition where it belongs
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Mitchell, playwright Duncan Macmillan, video artist Leo Warner and a band of onstage camera operators deliver a close-up view of wartime dilemmas
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Urban history museum aims to double visitors by move from Barbican to site next to historic meat market, as the Guardian is given an exclusive tour
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Talented Mr Ripley actor to join forces with Belgian director next year in Barbican production of 1943 film
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Shakespeare’s Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III are recast as modern political leaders in Kings of War by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, a bold four-and-a-half-hour epic combining their stories
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Already on his third LSO outing of this season, the orchestra’s music director-in-waiting offered work that was anguished, imposing and apocalyptic
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A new exhibition of photographs of British life taken by photographers from other countries justifies the idea of the outsider’s perspective – and makes my own past seem like a foreign country
Marzo review – whimsy levels are set high