Events on Thursday, October 23
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- More Flavor: Party
- Toynbee's Got Talent
- @ Toynbee Studios
- Open-mic night Toynbee's Got Talent is another in a series of innovative and entertaining Thursday evenings at Toynbee Studios. Professionals and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Sattriya Dance by Menaka PP Bora
- @ National Portrait Gallery
- Indian dance artist Menaka PP Bora performs a sattriya at the National Portrait Gallery. The dance form originated in 15th-century Assam... View details »
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- Turner Prize
- @ Tate Britain
- Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of... View details »
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- Dan Baldwin
- @ Forster Gallery
- Singled out by critics and collectors alike, Dan Baldwin's work stretches across a range of media and inspirations. Baldwin juxtaposes an... View details »
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- Katie Paterson
- @ Albion
- Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- A Lost London
- @ Rathbone
- Former NME snapper Chris Clunn has spent the past 25 years recording the lives of ordinary — and often extraordinary —... View details »
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- Art: Fair
- The Affordable Art Fair
- @ Battersea Park
- The Affordable Art Fair returns to Battersea Park for its annual sale of contemporary art at budget prices. More than 110... View details »
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- Robin Footitt
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Beside the Seaside
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
- @ Paradise Row
- This powerful series of new work by photographic collaborators Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin chronicles the artists' time spent with the... View details »
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- Listening Post
- @ The Science Museum
- Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- BBC Electric Proms
- @ Various
- The third annual BBC Electric Proms ropes in more musical acts to even more north London venues for another burst of... View details »
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- Vienna Café 1900
- @ 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... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
- Impressionist snapper Sarah Moon combines previously unseen fashion plates with the fairytale images that took her to the top of commercial... View details »
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- Reflect-Refract
- @ Rich Gallery
- Reflect-Refract is an exhibition of six emerging Latin American artists, four of whom are based here in London. Working in a... View details »
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- Cut & Paste
- @ 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... View details »
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- Francis Bacon
- @ Tate Britain
- As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ivanov
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Gerhard Richter
- @ Serpentine Gallery
- For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium.... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- The Regent
- @ The Regent
- If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub... View details »
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- Polaroid Retrospective
- @ Association of Photographers Gallery
- This Association of Photographers' exhibition of Polaroid work celebrates the invention of the instant camera by American scientist Edwin Land in... View details »
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- Soho Archives
- @ 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... View details »
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- Through Glass Walls
- @ Zest Gallery
- This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for... View details »
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- Nought to Sixty
- @ ICA
- The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,... View details »
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- Guilty Pleasures
- @ 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... View details »
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- David Blandy
- @ Artprojx Space
- Sinophile and underground artist David Blandy fleshes out his fascination with combat in his upbeat exhibition. Joyously mixing imagery from kung-fu... View details »
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- More Flavor: Competition
- Freesports on 4 Freeze
- @ Battersea Power Station
- The inaugural Freesports on 4 Freeze ignores the capital's lack of snow and takes over Battersea Power Station for a three-day... View details »
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- More Flavor: Sports
- London Fencing Club
- @ Finsbury Leisure Centre
- If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that,"... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Edwardian Outdoor Games
- @ 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... View details »
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- Roger Hiorns
- @ 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.... View details »
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- For Your Eyes Only
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Times BFI London Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The London Film Festival opens this week with an array of premieres and screenings that includes everything from animation to biopics.... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Designers in Residence
- @ 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... View details »
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- Dyfuncadelia
- @ Nettie Horn
- Dyfuncadelia, the latest exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate Debbie Lawson, takes the '70s home-decoration obsession with carpeting a step... View details »
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- The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
- @ Design Museum
- The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains... View details »
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- Bull in a China Shop
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Fashion V Sport
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Paperweight
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Olympic Stadium Project
- @ 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... View details »
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- High Wire
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- China Landscape
- @ British Museum
- Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Oktoberfest in London
- @ Bavarian Beerhouse
- October is the longest month in the calendar at this authentic Bavarian outpost in Old Street. Now in their fifth year,... View details »
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- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- @ Embankment Galleries
- The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Haozhan
- @ Haozhan
- Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Lustrabotas
- @ 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... View details »
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- Material Presence
- @ 176
- 176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark... View details »
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- Charles Avery
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Peter Friedl
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Café on the Hill
- @ Cafe on the Hill
- With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like... View details »
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- 28 Millimetres: Women
- @ Various locations
- Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over... View details »
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- The Stratford Hoard
- @ Stratford Station
- The Stratford Hoard is an exhibition for Transport for London's Platform for Art project at Stratford station in anticipation of the... View details »
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- Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
- @ The Cartoon Museum
- What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Norman Conquests
- @ 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... View details »
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- Rock Music Rock Art
- @ 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... View details »
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- Rivane Neuenschwander
- @ South London Gallery
- Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of... View details »
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- Andy Warhol
- @ Hayward Gallery
- Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was... View details »
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- 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Tom Hunter
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Photomonth
- @ 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... View details »
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- Cildo Meireles
- @ Tate Modern
- Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Forever 27
- @ Proud Camden
- Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the... View details »
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- Rothko
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Waste
- @ 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... View details »
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- Juan Fontanive
- @ Riflemaker Gallery
- American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Dehesa
- @ Dehesa
- Together with Alan Yau's Cha Cha Moon and ace burger joint the Diner, Dehesa completes Ganton Street's status as the epicentre... View details »
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- The Art of the Poster
- @ Covent Garden Market Piazza
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The eye-catching, amusing and sometimes wry art displayed on the Tube is the subject of a major retrospective at the
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- Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
- @ BFI Southbank
- Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual... View details »
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