Barbican marks 30 years of the arts, brutalism and losing its visitors

London arts centre, a stalwart of ugly-building polls, is hoping its new cinema will kickstart a cultural quarter in the CityFor an organisation that is trying to be more inclusive, more involving, the name "Barbican" – a defensive structure, a fortification to keep the hordes out – is possibly not ideal. "I say 'watchtower'," the arts centre's chief executive, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, says when asked to define it. "It is something that looks out on the city and beyond it."Whatever the definitio...

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