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Armistice Day 2018

Please note that on Armistice Day, Sunday 11 November 2018, we will be opening the Barber at 10.30am so that all staff and visitors are able to observe the minutes' silence at 11am.

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Record Visitor Numbers at the Barber!

More people visited our galleries during 2017 that in any previous year in our history, new figures reveal.

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Hodler’s ‘The Woodcutter’ on display at the Barber

Until 25 February 2018

Ferdinand Hodler, 'The Woodcutter' (Der Holzfäller), 1910

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Gabo sculpture enters collection

New Acquisition for the Barber Collection

Naum Gabo, 'Linear Construction in Space No.1', 1943/4

Image: The Work of Naum Gabo © Nina & Graham Williams
Photo: Edward Moss (All rights reserved)

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Professor Hamish Miles

We are sad to record the death of the third Director of the Barber Institute

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FRANCIS BACON MASTERPIECE ON DISPLAY AT THE BARBER

One of the finest paintings in any UK public collection by Francis Bacon – one of the important British painters of the 20th century – goes on display in the galleries at the Barber on Friday.

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‘Copying the Masters’ opens at the Barber

How artists have always copied other artists is the focus of our latest display.

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