Events on Thursday, October 23
Sattriya Dance by Menaka PP Bora
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 23/10 @ 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....
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ Battersea Park
The Affordable Art Fair returns to Battersea Park for its annual sale of contemporary art at budget prices. More than 110...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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....
Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Thursday 23/10 @ BFI Southbank
Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual...
Thursday 23/10 @ Riflemaker Gallery
American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade...
Thursday 23/10 @ South London Gallery
Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Thursday 23/10 @ Rich Gallery
Reflect-Refract is an exhibition of six emerging Latin American artists, four of whom are based here in London. Working in a...
Thursday 23/10 @ Various
The third annual BBC Electric Proms ropes in more musical acts to even more north London venues for another burst of...
Thursday 23/10 @ Rathbone
Former NME snapper Chris Clunn has spent the past 25 years recording the lives of ordinary — and often extraordinary —...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Thursday 23/10 @ Artprojx Space
Sinophile and underground artist David Blandy fleshes out his fascination with combat in his upbeat exhibition. Joyously mixing imagery from kung-fu...
Thursday 23/10 @ Zest Gallery
This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for...
Thursday 23/10 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Impressionist snapper Sarah Moon combines previously unseen fashion plates with the fairytale images that took her to the top of commercial...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ Serpentine Gallery
For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium....
Thursday 23/10 @ Bavarian Beerhouse
October is the longest month in the calendar at this authentic Bavarian outpost in Old Street. Now in their fifth year,...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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....
Thursday 23/10 @ 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,...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Thursday 23/10 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
The Times BFI London Film Festival
Thursday 23/10 @ Various locations
The London Film Festival opens this week with an array of premieres and screenings that includes everything from animation to biopics....
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Thursday 23/10 @ Paradise Row
This powerful series of new work by photographic collaborators Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin chronicles the artists' time spent with the...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Thursday 23/10 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Thursday 23/10 @ Nettie Horn
Dyfuncadelia, the latest exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate Debbie Lawson, takes the '70s home-decoration obsession with carpeting a step...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ Forster Gallery
Singled out by critics and collectors alike, Dan Baldwin's work stretches across a range of media and inspirations. Baldwin juxtaposes an...
Thursday 23/10 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Thursday 23/10 @ 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...
Thursday 23/10 @ Various locations
Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over...
Thursday 23/10 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Thursday 23/10 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Thursday 23/10 @ The Cartoon Museum
What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still...
Thursday 23/10 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art
Thursday 23/10 @ 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,...
Thursday 23/10 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Thursday 23/10 @ Albion
Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link...
