Events on Friday, November 16
Friday 16/11 @ Royal Academy of Music
Sneak a slice of sophistication into your lunch break today. Witness students of the Royal Academy of Music flexing their finely...
Friday 16/11 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
Since opening his first salon in London in the early 1980s, milliner Stephen Jones' hats have graced the runways of daring...
Friday 16/11 @ The Key
Milky Disco is the cosmic dance sound propagated by Norwegian downtempo-dreamers-turned-house-heads Lindstrom and Prins Thomas. Like trance's hipper, more intelligent younger...
Friday 16/11 @ The Water Rats Theatre
Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally comprise Baltimore duo Beach House, peddling a lovely line of lush, lo-fi dream pop. Their sound...
Friday 16/11 @ Secret location
Minimal-techno party Run Sounds celebrates its banner third-year anniversary. The gradient of sounds goes from glitchy and syncopated beats to melodic...
Friday 16/11 @ Electrowerkz
UK hip-hop and breaks giant Big Dada are ten years old. They would like to have a party to celebrate. Indeed,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 16/11 @ Battersea Arts Centre
At once brilliant and idiotic, Perrier Award-winning Will Adamsdale continues his
Friday 16/11 @ Design Museum
He counts Madonna, Sienna, Kylie and a host of other glamorous red-carpet habitués as both fans and muses, while his "boho...
Friday 16/11 @ Various locations
Take a lint brush to your zoot suit and polish up your spats, because the London Jazz Festival might actually revive...
I Kissed a Frog and It Gave Me Herpes
Friday 16/11 @ The Comedy Pub
The surprise hit of this year's Edinburgh Festival, I Kissed a Frog and It Gave Me Herpes was written by comedienne...
Francesca Lowe & Alasdair Gray
Friday 16/11 @ Riflemaker Gallery
The ramshackle plaster on the stairways and corridors of Riflemaker provides the scenario for this artistic coupling. Francesca Lowe's...
Friday 16/11 @ The Brick Lane Gallery
Graham Asker, a former engineer and designer, delves into a study of orthographic projection in his first solo exhibition at the...
Friday 16/11 @ HOST Gallery
Much like a personal Orient Express in photographic form, celebrated Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins marries Nippon with Northumberland in a cacophony...
Friday 16/11 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
Artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell have been collaborators for nearly 30 years and have experimented with virtually all media, from...
Friday 16/11 @ Soho Theatre
In his new show 41st Best Stand-Up Ever, Stewart Lee assesses his own value. Lee was voted No. 41 in Channel...
Friday 16/11 @ The Horniman Museum
Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an...
Friday 16/11 @ Almeida Theatre
This 1979 piece by provocative playwright Caryl Churchill still has the power to disturb. The first act, set in colonial Africa,...
Friday 16/11 @ Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Expat British artist Chris Welsby returns from Canada to present two recent works, At Sea (2003) and Lost Lake #2 (2005)....
Friday 16/11 @ The Old Truman Brewery
Lorraine Clarke's exhibit Nosce Te Ipsum, which translates to "know thyself", meditates on the connection between magic, medicine and religion through...
Friday 16/11 @ Association of Photographers Gallery
Jamie Baker is one of those photographers that you never hear about, the kind whose main gig involves supplying a magazine...
Friday 16/11 @ Man&Eve
After the commercial success of artists such as Rob Ryan and Richard Sweeney, paper continues to be the medium du jour....
Friday 16/11 @ Indar Pasricha Contemporary
Launching at the Indar Pasricha Contemporary gallery is Namrita Bachchan's Deliverance. The collection of illustrations, created with the aim of bringing...
Friday 16/11 @ Various locations
True evil won't wait for Halloween. The Evil Twins — the alter egos of Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag — entice...
Friday 16/11 @ King's Head Theatre
You may not recognise Dan Castellaneta as he makes his
Friday 16/11 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
The unveiling of Parisian couturier Christian Dior's "New Look" silhouette in 1947 was one of the most important fashion moments of...
Friday 16/11 @ South London Gallery
The title of German installation artist Thomas Zipp's Planet Caravan. Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair directly references...
Friday 16/11 @ Camden Arts Centre
Although Swedish painter Mamma Andersson burst onto the international scene just four years ago at the 2003 Venice Biennale, Stockholm's Moderna...
Friday 16/11 @ Rainbird Fine Art
With moodily lit streets and glowing windows rendered in rich oils, Sophie Ahmad paints her
Friday 16/11 @ The Place
To celebrate the Eurostar's arrival at the new St. Pancras International station, the Place — the UK's top center for contemporary...
Friday 16/11 @ ICA
Fidel Castro is almost as elusive a figure in this new film as he has been in real life....
Friday 16/11 @ Mall Galleries
The Mall Gallery mash-up taps six art-world tastemakers — two artists, two collectors and two critics — to curate the walls...
Friday 16/11 @ Shunt Lounge
Fringe theatre mavericks Paines Plough have travelled down from Glasgow's Òran Mór with the perfect way to while away those after-work...
Friday 16/11 @ Royal Academy of Arts
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of art collector Paul Mellon on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The American philanthropist first...
Friday 16/11 @ Auto Italia South East Gallery
Capturing ghostly, deserted scenes, Juliette Blightman, Richard Gilligan, Sam Griffin, Thomas Lock and Viki Thornton create documentations (photographs, 16mm film, pencil...
Cathie Pilkington: White Elephant
Friday 16/11 @ Marlborough Fine Art
In the past, Cathie Pilkington's work has been presented on an ambitious scale, but with this new exhibition, the sculptor has...
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
Friday 16/11 @ Barbican
This Barbican exhibition presents history's equivalent of the top shelf (or the sock drawer), allowing visitors to peruse some of the...
Friday 16/11 @ Various locations
The tunnel beneath the city is now built, and the bullet trains are fuelled and ready to bring us just a...
Friday 16/11 @ Tate Modern
Transforming an everyday bodily function into a topic worthy of closer scrutiny, Take a Deep Breath ensures participants leave with a...
Friday 16/11 @ National Theatre
Lush-voiced Don Warrington stars in Kwame Kwei-Armah's third play for the National. Having made the move from acting to writing, Kwei-Armah...
Friday 16/11 @ Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Country Wife tells the story of Horner, a rake and a trickster who plots the mass seduction of women in...
Friday 16/11 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
Photographer Lee Miller crammed more into her life than most — she was a model, a journalist and a surrealist muse...
Friday 16/11 @ Jerwood Space
US-based art collective the OpenEnded Group takes on the spectacular French street art of parkour in its latest exhibition. The sport...
Friday 16/11 @ Ibid Projects
Young sculptor Damien Roach activates the ordinary in his insouciant works: he arranges books in a stack chromatically by the color...
Friday 16/11 @ Royal Botanic Gardens
Twenty-eight of Henry Moore's pieces have been installed in a scattered fashion around Kew Gardens, giving fans the opportunity to view...
Friday 16/11 @ Greengrassi
Throw out what you learned at the Barbican about the line between pornography and art — Lisa Yuskavage is out to...
Friday 16/11 @ Greenwich Picturehouse
Presented in the window of the Greenwich Picture House, this series of exhibitions from the Occupy My Time community-art collective finds...
