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The Harry Styles-fuelled rebirth of Warpaint

Harry Styles’ Meltdown at the Southbank Centre begins next week, the pop superstar’s perhaps unlikely curatorship of this most serious of music festivals — no jumpsuits or smiling usually permitted. Yet, as is clear from the line-up, Styles has eclectic musical tastes, and the festival openers, Warpaint, have actually played…

Evening Standard

The new culture wars (no, not those ones): leading London creatives demand change to save the future of art

As the Southbank Centre hits 75, London’s leading creatives call for cultural change to nurture the young stars of the future

Evening Standard

‘It’s iconic worldwide – it’s special to skateboard there’: the South Bank skatepark turns 50

The undercroft at London’s Southbank Centre has been a haven for skateboarders since the 1970s. Now a new exhibition is celebrating its contribution to culture – and community

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Harry Styles reveals Meltdown festival line-up including Royal Festival Hall gig

The event will be held at the Southbank Centre in London this summer

Evening Standard

Harry Styles reveals diverse line-up for 2026 Meltdown festival featuring jazz, pop, indie and electronic artists

The event will be held at the Southbank Centre in London this summer

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Dua Lipa to curate London literature festival at Southbank Centre

The British pop star will lead the 2026 London literature festival in collaboration with her Service95 book club, as part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary celebrations

The Guardian - UK

Dua Lipa to curate London Literature Festival 2026

The pop superstar and founder of a hugely influential book club, will be taking over the Festival, which forms part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary celebrations

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Harry Styles, Danny Boyle and the Southbank Centre's new 'tonic for the nation'

Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre Mark Ball talks us through their 75th anniversary year which aims to bring hope and togetherness in tough times

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on the Southbank Centre: ministers must support innovation in the present as well as the past

Editorial: The decision to grant listed-building status to the brutalist arts complex was bold. Now artists need support to match it

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Harry Styles to curate 2026 Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre: 'I'm deeply honoured'

Harry Styles follows the likes of David Bowie, Yoko Ono, Chaka Khan, Grace Jones and Patti Smith in arranging the festival’s line-up

Evening Standard

The Southbank Centre is striking, polarising and now protected

Letters: Francis Bown says its grey concrete and childlike composition expressed the fatalism and despair of the time, while Helen Keats reflects on other brutalist builds

The Guardian - UK

Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake

As one of the longest running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs’ paradise

The Guardian - UK

Campaigners welcome ‘long overdue’ listing of brutalist Southbank Centre

Decision to grant Grade II status marks turnaround for what was once voted ‘Britain’s ugliest building’

The Guardian - UK

London's Southbank Centre finally gets listed status after 35-year battle to secure 60s Brutalist landmark

The new listing marks a major victory for campaigners, who have long argued for the building’s architectural and cultural importance

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Sally Tallant appointed as new director of London’s Hayward Gallery

Leeds-born artistic director will take over role as arts institution celebrates its 75th anniversary this year

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Southbank Centre to ‘galvanise’ nation with Festival of Britain celebration

Danny Boyle will oversee youth culture event in May to mark 75th anniversary of postwar ‘burst of colour’

Evening Standard

Danny Boyle turns Southbank Centre into a playground for its 75th birthday

London’s cultural landmark goes full technicolour... and everyone is invited to the party

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Danny Boyle to curate celebration of youth culture at Southbank Centre

Goalhanger, the podcast production company co-founded by Gary Lineker, will record live editions at the site during the arts venue’s 2026 season.

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We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon review – riotous takeover of the Southbank Centre

A cast of 80 spray-paint the pavement, parade a 40-phone selfie stick and bring dirty bass to ballet in (La)Horde’s night of sensational dance morsels

Evening Standard

Suede on Oasis, anti-nostalgia and 'society at breaking point'

Suede are taking over the Southbank Centre this month but with a killer new album out this will be far from a wallowing in the past

The Guardian - UK

Carlos Muñoz Villalobos obituary

Other lives: Political refugee who founded an Andean band that performed at the Southbank Centre and at Womad

Evening Standard

Jon Batiste on joining Little Simz' Meltdown: 'the system is trying to commodify young artists'

The musical pioneer Jon Batiste, along with the Southbank Centre’s Jane Beese , tells us about the philosophy of Meltdown and why its now more important than ever

Evening Standard

King stunned by David Attenborough’s age as pair attend ocean film premiere

Charles walked the ‘blue carpet’ and saw a first screening of Ocean With David Attenborough at the Southbank Centre in London on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

King says he ‘can’t believe’ David Attenborough’s age as pair walk blue carpet

King Charles marvelled at Sir David Attenborough’s longevity during the premiere of a poignant environmental film highlighting the crucial role of oceans.

The Guardian - UK

LPO/Gardner review – no recording could match the visceral thrill of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony live

Gardner’s pacing was virtuosic as his cast of hundreds proved the Southbank Centre’s maxim that you cannot experience the Multitudes festival at home

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