Events on Saturday, October 18
Flowers Grand Opening: Derek Boshier
Saturday 18/10 @ Flowers
Derek Boshier's Chemical Culture acrylic on canvas series is the relaunch exhibition for the newly renovated Flowers Cork Street gallery. Boshier,...
Saturday 18/10 @ Sin
Theatrical club night Rockabaret invites fancily-dressed partygoers to a night of high-society glamour spread over two floors of Tottenham Court Road’s...
Saturday 18/10 @ The Wenlock Building
Human Resources is a live group performance at the Wenlock Building, an office block taken over by the V22 arts fund...
Moshi Moshi 10th Anniversary Party
Saturday 18/10 @ Matter
Seminal indie label Moshi Moshi turn ten in style at Matter tonight, with a birthday lineup of past and current artistes...
Saturday 18/10 @ seOne
Richie Hawtin's Minus label celebrates ten years at the top of the techno tree with this seOne allnighter, the only UK...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ South London Gallery
Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Saturday 18/10 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Saturday 18/10 @ The Cartoon Museum
What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still...
Saturday 18/10 @ Zest Gallery
This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for...
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Saturday 18/10 @ Paradise Row
This powerful series of new work by photographic collaborators Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin chronicles the artists' time spent with the...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ Various locations
Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ Various locations
Transports Exceptionnels is an extraordinary show for one man and a 13-tonne digger at five outdoor spots in east and west...
Saturday 18/10 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ Nettie Horn
Dyfuncadelia, the latest exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate Debbie Lawson, takes the '70s home-decoration obsession with carpeting a step...
Saturday 18/10 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Saturday 18/10 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Saturday 18/10 @ Forster Gallery
Singled out by critics and collectors alike, Dan Baldwin's work stretches across a range of media and inspirations. Baldwin juxtaposes an...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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....
Saturday 18/10 @ 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,...
Saturday 18/10 @ Whitecross Gallery
This bijou exhibition, featuring multi-media pieces from the likes of Craig Fisher, Nina Fowler and art activists CutUp, takes a powerful...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Saturday 18/10 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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....
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Impressionist snapper Sarah Moon combines previously unseen fashion plates with the fairytale images that took her to the top of commercial...
Saturday 18/10 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Saturday 18/10 @ Riflemaker Gallery
American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ [DELETE] Selfridges
Filminute, the international online festival celebrating the shortest of shorts, culminates Sunday, 12 October with the announcement of the top two...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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....
Saturday 18/10 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
The Times BFI London Film Festival
Saturday 18/10 @ Various locations
The London Film Festival opens this week with an array of premieres and screenings that includes everything from animation to biopics....
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Saturday 18/10 @ BFI Southbank
Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual...
Saturday 18/10 @ Mother
Even with concerted efforts to get people to reduce consumption — every shop worth its salt offers a stylish canvas alternative...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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....
Saturday 18/10 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair
Saturday 18/10 @ Candid Arts Trust
Candid Arts hosts this year’s Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair, a platform for artists and designers that displays the work...
Saturday 18/10 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Saturday 18/10 @ Fabric
Fabric celebrates nine years at the clubbing coalface with Plump DJs, Krafty Kuts, DJ Hype, Robert Hood, Luciano and Baby Ford...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ Albion
Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art
Saturday 18/10 @ 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,...
Saturday 18/10 @ Artprojx Space
Sinophile and underground artist David Blandy fleshes out his fascination with combat in his upbeat exhibition. Joyously mixing imagery from kung-fu...
Saturday 18/10 @ Serpentine Gallery
For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium....
Saturday 18/10 @ 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....
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ 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...
Saturday 18/10 @ Rathbone
Former NME snapper Chris Clunn has spent the past 25 years recording the lives of ordinary — and often extraordinary —...
Saturday 18/10 @ Rich Gallery
Reflect-Refract is an exhibition of six emerging Latin American artists, four of whom are based here in London. Working in a...
Saturday 18/10 @ Various locations
National Knitting Week kicks off today in a flurry of purling needles. Supported by Knitting magazine, this year's event aims to...
Saturday 18/10 @ Bavarian Beerhouse
October is the longest month in the calendar at this authentic Bavarian outpost in Old Street. Now in their fifth year,...
