London's Barbican Centre Gets a Vibrant Makeover

Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian artist best known for creating intricate and sometimes massive textile installations that probe into how capital, labor and globalization are woven into the history of materials. In the past, he's covered Milan's Fondazione Nicola Trussardi with an exterior made entirely of jute sacks, a common vessel Mahama employs within his practice to comment on commerce and the transportation of global goods. His latest canvas? The brutalist concrete facade of London's Barbican ...