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Cildo Meireles
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Tate Modern
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Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such as radios, rulers and... View details »
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Amora
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Tuesday 14 Oct (1pm–midnight) @ Amora
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Amora — the Academy of Sex and Relationships — offers an educational exploration of all aspects of intimacy. Seven distinct zones take you through everything... View details »
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Furnace
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–3pm & 6–11pm) @ Furnace
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Tucked down a side street off Hoxton Square is the perfect remedy to the seasonal poultry overload. Shoreditch's best-kept secret, Furnace has been in the... View details »
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For Your Eyes Only
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Imperial War Museum Park
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Ian Fleming, the author responsible for birthing the shaken-not-stirred secret agent James Bond, receives his due in this new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.... View details »
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Parkour
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Westminster Academy
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Release your urban primate with parkour, the sport that catapults folks around London using vaults, leaps and climbs. The beginner's class breaks you in gently... View details »
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Children of Glory
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Various locations
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With the Russian FSB flexing its muscles once again under Putin, Krisztina Goda's gripping Cold War-era drama bristles with prescience as it recounts the story... View details »
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Listening Post
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ The Science Museum
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Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the Science Museum. Asking "What... View details »
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The Escapist
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Various locations
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Like all good prison-escape movies, The Escapist has an ensemble cast of stereotypes: the lifer (Brian Cox), the serial escapee (Liam Cunningham), the fixer (Seu... View details »
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Tom Hunter
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–5:45pm) @ Museum of Childhood
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Exploring the ever-changing face of the trade that in east London, Tom Hunter's portraits document the varied mechants and wares of local businesses running along... View details »
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Nought to Sixty
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Tuesday 14 Oct (noon–7pm) @ ICA
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The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months, the artworks roll over... View details »
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Francis Bacon
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–5:50pm) @ Tate Britain
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As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the capital, at his infamous... View details »
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Rothko
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Tate Modern
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Latvian-born abstract expressionist Mark Rothko gets a much-overdue retrospective (he hasn't had an exhibition in the UK for more than 20 years) at Tate Modern.... View details »
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Côte
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Tuesday 14 Oct (8am–11pm) @ Côte
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The first Côte opened in Wimbledon last August; before the rapturous reception had died down, a Soho-based second location opened in May, bringing the all-day... View details »
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Dehesa
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Tuesday 14 Oct (noon–11pm) @ Dehesa
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Together with Alan Yau's Cha Cha Moon and ace burger joint the Diner, Dehesa completes Ganton Street's status as the epicentre of Soho spur-of-the-moment dining.... View details »
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Quo Vadis
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Tuesday 14 Oct (noon–2:45 & 5–10:45pm) @ Quo Vadis
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Sam and Eddie Hart cemented their restaurant reputation by reinventing tapas for a sophisticated London clientele at Fino, then tailoring them for a drop-by crowd... View details »
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The Visitor
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Various locations
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Economics professor Walter Vale is widowed and weary, his lonely existence accentuated by his fumbling attempts to emulate his late wife on the piano. Arriving... View details »
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Puffball
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Various locations
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Don't Look Now director Nicolas Roeg's latest cinematic offering is based on Fay Weldon's novel, adapted into a screenplay by her son, Dan. Kelly Reilly... View details »
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Hannah Waldron
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Tuesday 14 Oct (8am–9pm) @ The Old Shoreditch Station
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Hannah Waldron's collection of illustrations comprises a bevy of delicate, colourful musings on space, favourite animals and imaginary worlds. The subjects of her previous ink... View details »
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Menagerie
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ The Jones
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The newly opened Jones Hotel has set about re-creating the once-popular aristocratic pursuit of collecting exotic animals. But this is a menagerie with a twist:... View details »
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Robin Footitt
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Hoxton Hall
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Although he's best known for his collaboration with singer KT Tunstall (he rendered her as a comic-book character for Tunstall's album Drastic Fantastic), artist Robin... View details »
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Gerhard Richter
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Serpentine Gallery
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For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium. Widely regarded as one... View details »
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Peter Friedl
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–5pm) @ Spring Projects
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In his testimonial-led work, Peter Friedl creates new political and artistic discourses by re-photographing his collection of politically charged newspaper images in high-contrast black-and-white. Friedl's... View details »
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The Wackness
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Various
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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Roger Hiorns
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Tuesday 14 Oct (noon–7pm) @ Artangel Harper Road Site
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British artist Roger Hiorns leaves his trademark chemical trace in new project Seizure, commissioned by Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Hiorns focuses his attention... View details »
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Juan Fontanive
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery
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American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade many contemporary-art shows today,... View details »
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Wouldn't It Be Nice
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Embankment Galleries
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The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for social experimentation. Besides displaying... View details »
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Through Glass Walls
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Zest Gallery
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This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for walls. Lucy Alexandra Batt's... View details »
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Turner Prize
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–5:40pm) @ Tate Britain
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Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of the final four: installationist... View details »
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Forever 27
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Tuesday 14 Oct (11am–5:30pm) @ Proud Camden
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Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the fact that they died... View details »
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High Wire
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Tuesday 14 Oct (11am–7pm) @ The German Gymnasium
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Artangel presents Catherine Yass' cinematic exploration of the physical dexterity and mental stamina of high-wire walker Didier Pasquette. Having captured Pasquette's vertiginous meanderings between the... View details »
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Charles Avery
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
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While awaiting the fifth season of Lost, satiate your appetite for fantastical drama by visiting Charles Avery's imaginary island. The Islanders, an ongoing project that... View details »
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David Blandy
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Tuesday 14 Oct (11am–6pm) @ Artprojx Space
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Sinophile and underground artist David Blandy fleshes out his fascination with combat in his upbeat exhibition. Joyously mixing imagery from kung-fu films, arcade fighting games... View details »
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Edwardian Outdoor Games
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood
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A revolutionary photojournalist of the Edwardian age, Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles showed a particular interest in capturing leisure pursuits on camera. He accumulated scores of photographs of... View details »
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Beside the Seaside
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–5pm) @ National Maritime Museum
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The National Maritime Museum's archive of photographs, posters and memorabilia provides fascinating insight into a boom time for the British coast. In the mid-1800s, rail... View details »
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Rock Music Rock Art
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–7:30pm) @ Pangolin London
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Pangolin Gallery's inaugural exhibition kicks off with new works by sculptor Peter Randall-Page, inspired by the mystical rock gongs the artist found on a visit... View details »
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Waste
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Tuesday 14 Oct (7:30pm) @ Almeida Theatre
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The Almeida presents Waste, Harley Granville-Barker's play about scandal that also provoked its own share of controversy. The story centres upon idealistic politician Henry Trebell,... View details »
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in-i
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ National Theatre
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French avant-gardist Juliette Binoche teams up with maverick choreographer Akram Khan to create a piece that remains in flux as it is performed. With Binoche... View details »
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Rivane Neuenschwander
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Tuesday 14 Oct (noon–6pm) @ South London Gallery
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Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of found objects and interior... View details »
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Andy Warhol
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery
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Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was also a prolific filmmaker... View details »
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Filminute
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Tuesday 14 Oct (9:30am–8pm) @ Selfridges
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Filminute, the international online festival celebrating the shortest of shorts, culminates Sunday, 12 October with the announcement of the top two 60-second films from the... View details »
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Lustrabotas
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Tuesday 14 Oct (9am–5pm) @ Viewfinder Photography Gallery
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A walk through the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, reveals a staggering number of homeless shoe-shine boys wearing ski masks to protect their dignity. Photographer... View details »
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Reflect-Refract
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Tuesday 14 Oct (10am–6pm) @ Rich Gallery
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Reflect-Refract is an exhibition of six emerging Latin American artists, four of whom are based here in London. Working in a variety of media, the... View details »
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The Stratford Hoard
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Stratford Station
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The Stratford Hoard is an exhibition for Transport for London's Platform for Art project at Stratford station in anticipation of the 2012 games. Curator and... View details »
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Solid Gold
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Tuesday 14 Oct (11am–6pm) @ Eleven
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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. A natural sequel to... View details »
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Photomonth
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Tuesday 14 Oct @ Various locations in east London
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Photomonth is the UK's largest celebration of photography, so extensive that it in fact lasts two months. The hundred or so exhibitions across east London... View details »
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Gomorrah
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Tuesday 14 Oct (2:45, 5:45 & 8:45pm) @ Curzon Soho
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Complex mob-flick Gomorrah shows the realities and ironies that many conventional mafia films only romanticise. The drama, based on Robert Saviano's non-fiction account of Neapolitan... View details »
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Bull in a China Shop
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Tuesday 14 Oct (noon–6pm) @ Trolley Gallery
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Stephanie Quayle's debut solo exhibition is dominated by a full-size clay replica of an Indian bull elephant. The motionless menagerie also features a series of... View details »
