Events on Tuesday, January 22
Tuesday 22/1 @ Southbank Centre
Doris Lessing's fiction takes inspiration from her remarkable history and tumultuous past. By the time she became the oldest person to...
Tuesday 22/1 @ [DELETE] BFI Southbank
Pitch-black comedy The Boss of It All is a return to form for Danish Dogme-tist Lars von Trier. The film was...
Ongoing Events
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
Tuesday 22/1 @ Barbican
This Barbican exhibition presents history's equivalent of the top shelf (or the sock drawer), allowing visitors to peruse some of the...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Greenwich Picturehouse
Presented in the window of the Greenwich Picture House, this series of exhibitions from the Occupy My Time community-art collective finds...
Tuesday 22/1 @ National Theatre
Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in...
Tuesday 22/1 @ 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...
Tuesday 22/1 @ O2 Arena
If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London...
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring
Tuesday 22/1 @ Camden Arts Centre
Artist Steven Claydon curates this incredibly long-monikered exhibition exploring the relationship between artworks and art spaces. Though Claydon's own art is...
Tuesday 22/1 @ National Theatre
Responding to the emergence of new media and interactive art installations, the RIBA London and Arts Council England recruited young architects...
Tuesday 22/1 @ White Cube
2005 Turner Prize nominee Darren Almond graces the stark Hoxton White Cube with his projects from Tibet and the British Isles....
Tuesday 22/1 @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
This stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of a businessman who turns into an insect returns to Hammersmith ahead of a...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Trafalgar Studios
Patrick Marber's hilarious Dealer's Choice returns to the West End for the first time since the play's premiere in 1995, when...
Gillray's Legacy: A Contemporary Perspective
Tuesday 22/1 @ The Political Cartoon Gallery
Georgian caricaturist James Gillray, considered the pre-eminent early political cartoonist, was a thorn in the side of power brokers like Napoleon,...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Riverside Studios
Before he became famous, hard-drinking literary icon Brendan Behan once scraped a living together by writing pornography. He was also a...
Tuesday 22/1 @ 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...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Wellcome Collection
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,...
Tuesday 22/1 @ HOST Gallery
Much like a personal Orient Express in photographic form, celebrated Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins marries Nippon with Northumberland in a cacophony...
The Directorspective: Luis Buñuel
Tuesday 22/1 @ Barbican
Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí's former schoolmate and collaborator, is heralded as the father of surrealist film. Though his early years were...
Tuesday 22/1 @ The Fine Art Society
Tim Simmons takes mundane landscapes — a field, a snowdrift, a backyard — and turns them into ethereal, haunting locales. He...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Max Wigram Gallery
Czech-born Pavel Büchler has spent many years investigating the theories and concepts behind art. As Research Professor of Art & Design...
Helter Skelter and Land of the Dead
Tuesday 22/1 @ The Bush Theatre
For this production, still less than a year into Josie Rourke's tenure as Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, she turns...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Barrio North
Thanks largely to the beat-drenched sounds of Parisian crew Gotan Project, the lure of electro-tango has never been stronger — with...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Various locations
True evil won't wait for Halloween. The Evil Twins — the alter egos of Nicola Carter and Luise Vormittag — entice...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Hackney Empire
London's weirdest and most entertaining variety show, the 291 Show, returns to the Hackney Empire for a special winter mini-season. The...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Design Museum
He counts Madonna, Sienna, Kylie and a host of other glamorous red-carpet habitués as both fans and muses, while his "boho...
Tuesday 22/1 @ The Place
Resolution! is an annual showcase that highlights contemporary dancers and choreographers with a programme of rotating talent. Every night features a...
Tuesday 22/1 @ The Economist Plaza
Fans of Beatrix Potter look away now – Laura Ford's incarnations of the author's beloved characters are enough to give fully...
London International Mime Festival
Tuesday 22/1 @ Various locations
Stripey jumpers, hackneyed gestures and those ubiquitous white gloves normally spring to mind with the word "mime". But London's annual International...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Photofusion Photography Centre
German photographer Kathrin Kur documents the real-life backdrops used to make television and movie magic. A shot of the deserted Tomb...
Tuesday 22/1 @ BFI Southbank
The austerity of Franco's Spain is revisited in this collection of films produced and smuggled out of the country during the...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of...
Tuesday 22/1 @ 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...
Tuesday 22/1 @ National Theatre
Lucinda Coxon's new play for the National Theatre explores that subject of eternal relevance and importance: self-fulfilment. Directed by Thea Sharrock,...
Tuesday 22/1 @ The Photographers' Gallery
Halloween may have come and gone, but that hasn't stopped the Photographers' Gallery from collecting some of the spookiest imagery this...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Southwark Playhouse
Since January budgets don't allow for long-distance flights, Southwark Playhouse brings this festival of Lithuanian culture to the capital. Showcasing the...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Design Museum
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing...
Tuesday 22/1 @ The Miller
Write Side of the Brain is an opportunity for an artistic binge. The event includes six readings from new talent fresh...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad....
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion
Tuesday 22/1 @ Sadler's Wells
In a truly collaborative trilogy, choreographer Burrows and composer Fargion, onstage together, explore the relationship between movement and music. Their three...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Gate Theatre
I Am Falling is a searing and complex exploration of age. The dance/theatre collaboration tells the story of Tom (Ben Duke),...
Tuesday 22/1 @ River Terrace, Southbank Centre
For a hefty dose of seasonal festivity — of the eye-blindingly neon variety — head along to the Southbank Centre, where...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Renoir Cinema
In tandem with the British Library's exhibition, Curzon tracks the rise of Europe's avant-garde film movements. F.W. Murnau's masterpiece, Nosferatu (1922),...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Rayners Lane Underground Station
London's Art on the Underground initiative has exposed some fascinating artwork to the commuting public since its conception in...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Somerset House
Test your balance and revel in wintry charm as you careen around the glassy surface at Somerset House. Sip on a...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Haunch of Venison
An exhibition depicting suicide may not be an obvious stop-off if you're in a positive New Year state of mind. However,...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Tricycle Theatre
Kwame Kwei-Armah is a rare creature. A hospital-drama actor turned playwright, he was nominated for an Olivier Award and was also...
The British Ambassador's Belly Dancer
Tuesday 22/1 @ Arcola Theatre
When Nadira and Craig Murray met in 2004, he was the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan and she was a belly dancer...
Tuesday 22/1 @ National Portrait Gallery
Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in...
Tuesday 22/1 @ Royal Court Theatre
Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war, David Hare's The Vertical Hour tells the story of Nadia Blye, an American...
