Events on Friday, October 31
Friday 31/10 @ Kyoto Garden
If you are a fan of Hideo Nakata's Ringu, this Halloween is your chance to transform from mere spectator to participant...
Friday 31/10 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
This month's late-night Friday entertainment at the V&A is inspired by current exhibition Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970. Cybersalon pull apart...
Midnight Movies: Halloween All-Nighter
Friday 31/10 @ Curzon Soho
This Halloween all-nighter includes five films presented by Jeremy Dyson, co-writer of TV comedy The League of Gentlemen. Dyson's gothic introduction...
Ongoing Events
Friday 31/10 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Impressionist snapper Sarah Moon combines previously unseen fashion plates with the fairytale images that took her to the top of commercial...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ Rathbone
Former NME snapper Chris Clunn has spent the past 25 years recording the lives of ordinary — and often extraordinary —...
Friday 31/10 @ 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...
Friday 31/10 @ 85 Brick Lane
Designer Sales UK provides Gordon Brown-esque benevolent salvation to label slaves whose acquisitive dreams have been cut down by the credit...
Friday 31/10 @ Union Chapel
The Chills in the Chapel film festival has authentic atmosphere in droves thanks to its location within James Cubbitt's spookily gothic...
Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Friday 31/10 @ BFI Southbank
Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ ICA
Late Noon Sun is the latest audio-visual storytelling experiment from Ear Cinema. Lizzie Oxby's film and animation features the Psychological...
Friday 31/10 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Friday 31/10 @ Albion
Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Grief is provocative photographer Erwin Olaf's final installation in a trilogy of portraits inspired by the decor, fashion and feminist factions...
Friday 31/10 @ Various locations
Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ Riflemaker Gallery
American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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...
Friday 31/10 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ Various locations
This bewitching show from Islington theatre group Scary Little Girls takes place on a barge sailing through the desolate tunnels of...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ Royal Academy of Arts
GSK Contemporary brightens-up the Royal Academy over the winter with installations, screenings and seminars examining two themes: Molten States and Collision...
Friday 31/10 @ Various locations
Minimalist sculptor Richard Serra heaves a load of metal slabs through customs for his first UK exhibition for more than a...
Friday 31/10 @ Artspace Gallery
Jeffrey Dennis' Extracts from the Log explores the tensions simmering beneath the surface of our beloved metropolis. In this distinctly dystopian...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ Serpentine Gallery
For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium....
Friday 31/10 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ South London Gallery
Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Friday 31/10 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Friday 31/10 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Friday 31/10 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Friday 31/10 @ Bavarian Beerhouse
October is the longest month in the calendar at this authentic Bavarian outpost in Old Street. Now in their fifth year,...
Friday 31/10 @ 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 31/10 @ 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...
