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Radical Nature: Art and architecture for a changing planet Barbican Art Gallery, London. Until 18 October. Admission £8/£6 concs

Gallery: Radical Nature: Art and architecture for a changing planet

ENTERING a giant space in a 1960s brutalist building, you nearly trip over a stuffed wolf on a trailer. Recovering, you spot an upended chunk of rainforest, puzzling trays of crops, a geodesic dome and plastic spheres tethered to the ground and draped with the air-growing plant Tillandsia.

Without reading the captions or the fat catalogue (recycled, of course), it is…

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