Events on Tuesday, October 14

Hectic Peelers Film Club

Film: Documentary

Hectic Peelers Film Club

Tuesday 14/10 @ Roxy Bar & Screen

Lutz Dammbeck's The Net (2003) is the subject of this month's Hectic Peelers Film Club, the irreverent movie soiree curated by... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Nought to Sixty</em>

Art

Nought to Sixty

Tuesday 14/10 @ ICA

The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,... 

<em>The Story of the Supremes</em>

Art

The Story of the Supremes

Tuesday 14/10 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

Relive the days of '60s doo-wop and soul at the Victoria & Albert Museum's latest exhibition. Hailed as one of the... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Tuesday 14/10 @ The Old Vic

The Old Vic has been transformed into a theatre in the round for the first major London revival of Alan Ayckbourn's... 

JR: <em>28 Millimetres: Women</em>

Art: Photography

28 Millimetres: Women

Tuesday 14/10 @ Various locations

Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over... 

Kew at the British Museum presents <em>China Landscape</em>

City Gems

China Landscape

Tuesday 14/10 @ British Museum

Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the... 

David Blandy: <em>Duels and Dualities</em>

Art

David Blandy

Tuesday 14/10 @ Artprojx Space

Sinophile and underground artist David Blandy fleshes out his fascination with combat in his upbeat exhibition. Joyously mixing imagery from kung-fu... 

<em>Through Glass Walls</em>

Art

Through Glass Walls

Tuesday 14/10 @ Zest Gallery

This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for... 

<em>Vienna Caf&eacute; 1900</em>

Special Event

Vienna Café 1900

Tuesday 14/10 @ Royal College of Art

This Royal College of Art exhibition explores 19th- and 20th-century Vienna's favourite locus of cultural and intellectual activity: the kaffeehaus. In... 

Phil Clarke-Hill: <em>Lustrabotas</em>

Art: Photography

Lustrabotas

Tuesday 14/10 @ Viewfinder Photography Gallery

A walk through the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, reveals a staggering number of homeless shoe-shine boys wearing ski masks to... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Tuesday 14/10 @ Curzon Soho

Complex mob-flick Gomorrah shows the realities and ironies that many conventional mafia films only romanticise. The drama, based on Robert Saviano's... 

<em>The Olympic Stadium Project - Le Corbusier and Baghdad</em>

Art

The Olympic Stadium Project

Tuesday 14/10 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

This collection showcases the blueprints and models for the Baghdad Olympic Stadium, one of Le Corbusier's final projects. The designs illustrate... 

Photomonth

Art: Photography

Photomonth

Tuesday 14/10 @ Various locations in east London

Photomonth is the UK's largest celebration of photography, so extensive that it in fact lasts two months. The hundred or so... 

<em>Desire's Smoking Gun</em>

Special Event

Desire's Smoking Gun

Tuesday 14/10 @ Whitecross Gallery

This bijou exhibition, featuring multi-media pieces from the likes of Craig Fisher, Nina Fowler and art activists CutUp, takes a powerful... 

<em>Fashion V Sport</em>

Special Event

Fashion V Sport

Tuesday 14/10 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

Try as you might, it's next to impossible to recall a time when contemporary sportswear and fashion weren't merrily playing house.... 

Catherine Yass: <em>High Wire</em>

Film

High Wire

Tuesday 14/10 @ The German Gymnasium

Artangel presents Catherine Yass' cinematic exploration of the physical dexterity and mental stamina of high-wire walker Didier Pasquette. Having captured Pasquette's... 

Peter Friedl

Art: Photography

Peter Friedl

Tuesday 14/10 @ Spring Projects

In his testimonial-led work, Peter Friedl creates new political and artistic discourses by re-photographing his collection of politically charged newspaper images... 

<em>Beside the Seaside: Snapshots of British Coastal Life, 1880-1950</em>

Art: Photography

Beside the Seaside

Tuesday 14/10 @ National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum's archive of photographs, posters and memorabilia provides fascinating insight into a boom time for the British coast.... 

Charles Avery: <em>The Islanders: An Introduction</em>

Art

Charles Avery

Tuesday 14/10 @ Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art

While awaiting the fifth season of Lost, satiate your appetite for fantastical drama by visiting Charles Avery's imaginary island. The Islanders,... 

Paperweight

Theatre

Paperweight

Tuesday 14/10 @ Camden People's Theatre

Paperweight return from their sell-out Edinburgh season clutching a Scotsman Fringe First Award to show the Camden People's Theatre how absurdist... 

Alan Aldridge: <em>The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes</em>

Art

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Tuesday 14/10 @ Design Museum

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains... 

<em>Drift 08</em>

City Gems

Drift 08

Tuesday 14/10 @ Various locations

Dredging up more River Thames oddities than usual, Illuminate Productions launch Drift 08. Featuring an array of artworks placed strategically in... 

Stephanie Quayle: <em>Bull in a China Shop</em>

Art

Bull in a China Shop

Tuesday 14/10 @ Trolley Gallery

Stephanie Quayle's debut solo exhibition is dominated by a full-size clay replica of an Indian bull elephant. The motionless menagerie also... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Tuesday 14/10 @ The Science Museum

Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... 

Robin Footitt: <em>Rescue Attempt</em>

Art

Robin Footitt

Tuesday 14/10 @ Hoxton Hall

Although he's best known for his collaboration with singer KT Tunstall (he rendered her as a comic-book character for Tunstall's album... 

Martha Parsey: <em>Solid Gold</em>

Art

Solid Gold

Tuesday 14/10 @ Eleven

Martha Parsey's Solid Gold at the Eleven gallery is a set of oil-on-canvas portraits that explore the decadence of the well-to-do.... 

<em>Rothko</em>

Art

Rothko

Tuesday 14/10 @ Tate Modern

Latvian-born abstract expressionist Mark Rothko gets a much-overdue retrospective (he hasn't had an exhibition in the UK for more than 20... 

Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth: <em>The All-seeing Eye (the hardcore-techno version) </em>

Art

Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth

Tuesday 14/10 @ BFI Southbank

Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual... 

<em>Wouldn't It Be Nice... Wishful Thinking in Art and Design</em>

Art

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Tuesday 14/10 @ Embankment Galleries

The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for... 

<em>Designers in Residence</em>

Art

Designers in Residence

Tuesday 14/10 @ Design Museum

Selected for their all-out experimentation, the Design Museum's resident designers have been asked to respond to the theme of collections and... 

Filminute

Festival: Performing Arts

Filminute

Tuesday 14/10 @ [DELETE] Selfridges

Filminute, the international online festival celebrating the shortest of shorts, culminates Sunday, 12 October with the announcement of the top two... 

<em>Ivanov </em>

Theatre

Ivanov

Tuesday 14/10 @ Wyndham's Theatre

Tom Stoppard, one of the 20th century's finest dramatists, makes over the work of Chekhov, arguably the 19th century's greatest playwright,... 

Cildo Meireles

Art

Cildo Meireles

Tuesday 14/10 @ Tate Modern

Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such... 

National Knitting Week

City Gems

National Knitting Week

Tuesday 14/10 @ Various locations

National Knitting Week kicks off today in a flurry of purling needles. Supported by Knitting magazine, this year's event aims to... 

Roger Hiorns: <em>Seizure</em>

Art

Roger Hiorns

Tuesday 14/10 @ Artangel Harper Road Site

British artist Roger Hiorns leaves his trademark chemical trace in new project Seizure, commissioned by Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.... 

Tom Hunter: <em>Are You Being Served?</em>

Art

Tom Hunter

Tuesday 14/10 @ Museum of Childhood

Exploring the ever-changing face of the trade that in east London, Tom Hunter's portraits document the varied mechants and wares of... 

<em>Forever 27</em>

Art: Photography

Forever 27

Tuesday 14/10 @ Proud Camden

Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the... 

Gerhard Richter: <em>4900 Colours: Version II</em>

Art

Gerhard Richter

Tuesday 14/10 @ Serpentine Gallery

For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium.... 

Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!

Art

Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!

Tuesday 14/10 @ The Cartoon Museum

What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still... 

Turner Prize 08

Art

Turner Prize

Tuesday 14/10 @ Tate Britain

Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of... 

Tiago Guedes:<em> Various Materials</em>

Dance

Tiago Guedes

Tuesday 14/10 @ Robin Howard Dance Theatre

With a set akin to Neil Buchanan's Art Attack, choreographer Tiago Guedes challenges traditional approaches to dance performances in the UK... 

<em>Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms</em>

Art

Andy Warhol

Tuesday 14/10 @ Hayward Gallery

Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was... 

Hannah Waldron: <em>Tonight I Am an Owl</em>

Art

Hannah Waldron

Tuesday 14/10 @ The Old Shoreditch Station

Hannah Waldron's collection of illustrations comprises a bevy of delicate, colourful musings on space, favourite animals and imaginary worlds. The subjects... 

Rivane Neuenschwander: <em>Suspension Point</em>

Art

Rivane Neuenschwander

Tuesday 14/10 @ South London Gallery

Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of... 

<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Tuesday 14/10 @ Imperial War Museum Park

Ian Fleming, the author responsible for birthing the shaken-not-stirred secret agent James Bond, receives his due in this new exhibition at... 

<em>Menagerie</em>

Art

Menagerie

Tuesday 14/10 @ The Jones

The newly opened Jones Hotel has set about re-creating the once-popular aristocratic pursuit of collecting exotic animals. But this is a... 

Chris Clunn: <em>A Lost London</em>

Art: Photography

A Lost London

Tuesday 14/10 @ Rathbone

Former NME snapper Chris Clunn has spent the past 25 years recording the lives of ordinary — and often extraordinary —... 

Francis Bacon

Art

Francis Bacon

Tuesday 14/10 @ Tate Britain

As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the... 

<em>Soho Archives: 1950s & 1960s</em>

Art: Photography

Soho Archives

Tuesday 14/10 @ The Photographers' Gallery

Originally a hunting ground, and briefly a haven for the wealthy, London's Soho is the heart of the gay district, a... 

Juan Fontanive: <em>Tin-Tan</em>

Art

Juan Fontanive

Tuesday 14/10 @ Riflemaker Gallery

American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade... 

<em>Rock Music Rock Art</em>

Art

Rock Music Rock Art

Tuesday 14/10 @ Pangolin London

Pangolin Gallery's inaugural exhibition kicks off with new works by sculptor Peter Randall-Page, inspired by the mystical rock gongs the artist... 

<em>Edwardian Outdoor Games: Photographs by Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles</em>

Art: Photography

Edwardian Outdoor Games

Tuesday 14/10 @ Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood

A revolutionary photojournalist of the Edwardian age, Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles showed a particular interest in capturing leisure pursuits on camera. He accumulated... 

<em>Waste</em>

Theatre

Waste

Tuesday 14/10 @ Almeida Theatre

The Almeida presents Waste, Harley Granville-Barker's play about scandal that also provoked its own share of controversy. The story centres upon... 

<em>Reflect-Refract</em>

Art

Reflect-Refract

Tuesday 14/10 @ Rich Gallery

Reflect-Refract is an exhibition of six emerging Latin American artists, four of whom are based here in London. Working in a... 

<em>in-i</em>

Dance

in-i

Tuesday 14/10 @ National Theatre

French avant-gardist Juliette Binoche teams up with maverick choreographer Akram Khan to create a piece that remains in flux as it...