Events on Saturday, October 4
Saturday 4/10 @ Barfly
Campari Safari is a new indie night upstairs at Chalk Farm's Barfly, offering four diverse, promising bands for a recession-busting £6....
Saturday 4/10 @ Barbican
New York four-piece Liquid Liquid have reunited for Domino Records' 15th birthday bash to show the Barbican crowd the true meaning...
Saturday 4/10 @ Secret location
Techno night and underground record label Süd Electronic celebrates eight years at the electronic-music coalface with an anniversary bash at a...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/10 @ Various locations
Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over...
Saturday 4/10 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Saturday 4/10 @ Various locations
The Bicycle Film Festival world tour lands in London to celebrate two-wheeled travel through film, parties and games. Festival standout Les...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Serpentine Gallery
For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium....
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Haunch of Venison
Anthony Goicolea's previous, Cindy Sherman-esque photography has included portraits of himself as a young boy and dreamlike tableaux with gruesome twists....
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Whitecross Gallery
This bijou exhibition, featuring multi-media pieces from the likes of Craig Fisher, Nina Fowler and art activists CutUp, takes a powerful...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Bavarian Beerhouse
October is the longest month in the calendar at this authentic Bavarian outpost in Old Street. Now in their fifth year,...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Saturday 4/10 @ Vegas Gallery
Offering insight into The Advantages of Failure, London-based artist Simon Willems presents a solo exhibition at Vegas Gallery. Motivated by a...
Saturday 4/10 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Saturday 4/10 @ Zest Gallery
This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for...
Saturday 4/10 @ Mother
Even with concerted efforts to get people to reduce consumption — every shop worth its salt offers a stylish canvas alternative...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Saturday 4/10 @ Paradise Row
This powerful series of new work by photographic collaborators Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin chronicles the artists' time spent with the...
Saturday 4/10 @ Beaux Arts
Taking a none-too-subtle approach to his work, David Spiller draws from the immediate nature of pop art to create a series...
Saturday 4/10 @ Various locations
The inaugural London Fetish Weekend is a four-day festival of kinky adult indulgence spread across five venues. Thursday night, webzine The...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Grosvenor Gallery
To coincide with the first UK solo exhibition of his work at Grosvenor Gallery, Ravinder Reddy has created a large-scale public...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Saturday 4/10 @ Barbican
Both of Merce Cunningham's two programmes tonight feature the wonderful XOVER, a new piece for 13 white-clad dancers with music by...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Bearspace
The "literature" of Jackie Collins hasn't been the inspiration for many artworks, but London video artist Sarah Baker draws on her...
Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Saturday 4/10 @ BFI Southbank
Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual...
Saturday 4/10 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Saturday 4/10 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Saturday 4/10 @ Mummery + Schnelle
Presenting an aesthetically minimalist series of artworks, Michael Müller's solo exhibition Caoutchouc launches today at Mummery + Schnelle. Utilising a stark...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Riflemaker Gallery
American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade...
Saturday 4/10 @ Coningsby Gallery
The Coningsby Gallery's decidedly quirky new show, Hot Rods and Hairy Beasts, includes the work of four illustrators whose subject matter...
Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance!
Saturday 4/10 @ Trolley Gallery
In her first solo exhibition, Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance! artist Isabelle Graeff brings together the obscene and the commonplace...
Saturday 4/10 @ Rathbone
Former NME snapper Chris Clunn has spent the past 25 years recording the lives of ordinary — and often extraordinary —...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Arcola Theatre
Combining live music with physical drama and shadow puppetry, performance-art piece Karagiozis Exposed brings Cypriot folklore to the stage. Both a...
Saturday 4/10 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Saturday 4/10 @ The Courtauld Gallery
Proving that good things do indeed come in small packages, the Courtauld Gallery hosts a series of Paul Cézanne works in...
Saturday 4/10 @ Transition Gallery
RCA- educated Mimei Thompson presents her debut solo effort, Mime1, at Transition Gallery. In it, she explores the ever-changing manifestations of...
Saturday 4/10 @ Stuart Shave/Modern Art
Clare Woods takes the British countryside as subject matter for her large-format enamel/oil paintings, but unlike Constable or Turner, she depicts...
Saturday 4/10 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Saturday 4/10 @ Max Wigram Gallery
Executing a swift "Bruce Wayne by day, Batman by night" manoeuvre, Italian artist Manfredi Beninati presents La Natura Morta at the...
Environmental Photographer of the Year
Saturday 4/10 @ The Art Pavilion
Happy in Her Own World, the winning picture of this photography contest, powerfully reiterates the ethos of the competition. A young...
Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Various locations
Promoted by a half-naked woman and a zombie in love, this year's Raindance Film Festival kicks off with Clark Gregg's film...
