Events on Friday, October 17
Friday 17/10 @ Royal Festival Hall
Celebration of Life harnesses R&B, opera, soul and hip-hop talent to support Revival, the MBPA anti-violence campaign. Comedian Curtis Walker plays...
Jonas Mekas presents Flux Party
Friday 17/10 @ Rio Cinema
This late-night screening of the complete Flux film anthology honours the Fluxus experimental cinema movement of the '60s. Cinema luminary Jonas...
Friday 17/10 @ Corsica Studios
A rare London set by seminal New York post-punk outfit Bush Tetras is the highlight of tonight’s Alphabet City club night...
Snap Crackle & Pop Car Park Rave
Friday 17/10 @ Hearn Street Car Park
The Snap Crackle & Pop collective take over the brick arches of Hearn Street car park for this all-nighter. Two of...
Ongoing Events
Friday 17/10 @ Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Though it is now enjoying something of a revival, thanks largely to software such as Photoshop, photomontage was at the height...
Friday 17/10 @ 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....
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ Royal Academy of Arts
If contemporary art is your thing, the Zoo Art Fair, which returns to the Royal Academy for its fifth season, is...
Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Friday 17/10 @ BFI Southbank
Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual...
Friday 17/10 @ Riflemaker Gallery
American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ 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....
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Friday 17/10 @ Paradise Row
This powerful series of new work by photographic collaborators Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin chronicles the artists' time spent with the...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Friday 17/10 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ Various locations
Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over...
Friday 17/10 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ Bavarian Beerhouse
October is the longest month in the calendar at this authentic Bavarian outpost in Old Street. Now in their fifth year,...
Friday 17/10 @ Nettie Horn
Dyfuncadelia, the latest exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate Debbie Lawson, takes the '70s home-decoration obsession with carpeting a step...
Friday 17/10 @ Artprojx Space
Sinophile and underground artist David Blandy fleshes out his fascination with combat in his upbeat exhibition. Joyously mixing imagery from kung-fu...
Friday 17/10 @ Zest Gallery
This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for...
Friday 17/10 @ Forster Gallery
Singled out by critics and collectors alike, Dan Baldwin's work stretches across a range of media and inspirations. Baldwin juxtaposes an...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ Whitecross Gallery
This bijou exhibition, featuring multi-media pieces from the likes of Craig Fisher, Nina Fowler and art activists CutUp, takes a powerful...
Friday 17/10 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ Regent's Park
Influential contemporary-art fair Frieze invites 150 galleries to display artworks by more than 1,000 artists from around the world, including the...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair
Friday 17/10 @ Candid Arts Trust
Candid Arts hosts this year’s Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair, a platform for artists and designers that displays the work...
Friday 17/10 @ The Old Truman Brewery
The Future Can Wait, but you don't have to: London's art-fair season is just around the corner. Accompanying this year's fair...
Friday 17/10 @ Serpentine Gallery
For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium....
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art
Friday 17/10 @ Rochelle School
To celebrate the London Underground "Roundel" logo's centennial, 100 artists transform the image from brand-design icon into contemporary-art subject. This exhibition,...
Friday 17/10 @ The Old Truman Brewery
The Kounter Kulture art fair is curated by Newcastle-based art magnates Opus Art and pitched as the maverick rival to Frieze....
Friday 17/10 @ 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,...
Friday 17/10 @ 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....
Friday 17/10 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Friday 17/10 @ Albion
Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link...
Friday 17/10 @ 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....
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
The Times BFI London Film Festival
Friday 17/10 @ Various locations
The London Film Festival opens this week with an array of premieres and screenings that includes everything from animation to biopics....
Friday 17/10 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Friday 17/10 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Friday 17/10 @ South London Gallery
Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of...
Friday 17/10 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Friday 17/10 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Friday 17/10 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ [DELETE] Selfridges
Filminute, the international online festival celebrating the shortest of shorts, culminates Sunday, 12 October with the announcement of the top two...
Friday 17/10 @ Various locations
Transports Exceptionnels is an extraordinary show for one man and a 13-tonne digger at five outdoor spots in east and west...
Friday 17/10 @ Rich Gallery
Reflect-Refract is an exhibition of six emerging Latin American artists, four of whom are based here in London. Working in a...
Friday 17/10 @ Fabric
Fabric celebrates nine years at the clubbing coalface with Plump DJs, Krafty Kuts, DJ Hype, Robert Hood, Luciano and Baby Ford...
Friday 17/10 @ Covent Garden Market Piazza
The eye-catching, amusing and sometimes wry art displayed on the Tube is the subject of a major retrospective at the
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ Mother
Even with concerted efforts to get people to reduce consumption — every shop worth its salt offers a stylish canvas alternative...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Friday 17/10 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Impressionist snapper Sarah Moon combines previously unseen fashion plates with the fairytale images that took her to the top of commercial...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Friday 17/10 @ The Cartoon Museum
What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still...
Friday 17/10 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ Alon Zakaim Fine Art
Guilty Pleasures is Kate Brinkworth and Kim Sung Jin’s first exhibition at Alon Zakaim Fine Art on Cork Street. The hyperrealist...
Friday 17/10 @ Rathbone
Former NME snapper Chris Clunn has spent the past 25 years recording the lives of ordinary — and often extraordinary —...
Friday 17/10 @ 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...
Friday 17/10 @ Various locations
National Knitting Week kicks off today in a flurry of purling needles. Supported by Knitting magazine, this year's event aims to...
