Events on Tuesday, November 11

<em>Jubilee</em> (1977)

Film

Jubilee (1977)

Tuesday 11/11 @ Birkbeck Cinema

Derek Jarman's punk-flick Jubilee gets a rare screening at Birkbeck Cinema in Bloomsbury. In a surreal '70s dystopia, Queen Elizabeth I... 

ARMS w/ Windmill and Rival Consoles

Music

ARMS

Tuesday 11/11 @ Windmill Brixton

Harlem Shakes guitarist (and former Flavorpill editor) Todd Goldstein performs as ARMS at the Windmill tonight. ARMS' long-brewed debut LP Kids... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Olympic Stadium Project - Le Corbusier and Baghdad</em>

Art

The Olympic Stadium Project

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

Rivane Neuenschwander: <em>Suspension Point</em>

Art

Rivane Neuenschwander

Tuesday 11/11 @ South London Gallery

Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of... 

<em>The Art of the Poster: A Century of Design</em>

Art

The Art of the Poster

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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 London... 

Art

Extracts from the Log

Tuesday 11/11 @ Artspace Gallery

Jeffrey Dennis' Extracts from the Log explores the tensions simmering beneath the surface of our beloved metropolis. In this distinctly dystopian... 

<em>Rothko</em>

Art

Rothko

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

<em>The Mushrooms of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

The Mushrooms of the Russian Avant-Garde

Tuesday 11/11 @ Rochelle School

The first UK show by Moscow Conceptualists Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina explores the form and hallucinogenic properties of magic mushrooms.... 

<em>Edwardian Outdoor Games: Photographs by Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles</em>

Art: Photography

Edwardian Outdoor Games

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

Alan Aldridge: <em>The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes</em>

Art

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Tuesday 11/11 @ Design Museum

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains... 

Natural History Museum Ice Rink

City Gems

Natural History Museum Ice Rink

Tuesday 11/11 @ Natural History Museum

The freezing of the Natural History Museum's atmospheric East Lawn for skating has become a festive sight to rival the West... 

<em>Waste</em>

Theatre

Waste

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

Erwin Olaf's Grief

Art: Photography

Erwin Olaf's Grief

Tuesday 11/11 @ Hamiltons Gallery

Grief is provocative photographer Erwin Olaf's final installation in a trilogy of portraits inspired by the decor, fashion and feminist factions... 

GSK Contemporary

Art

GSK Contemporary

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Science Museum

Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... 

<em>Girlie</em>

Art

Girlie

Tuesday 11/11 @ Whitecross Gallery

Canadian artist Daphne Plessner's new solo exhibition takes an uncompromising swipe at the frivolous and sexually charged meaning of being "girlie".... 

<em>Wouldn't It Be Nice... Wishful Thinking in Art and Design</em>

Art

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Tuesday 11/11 @ Embankment Galleries

The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for... 

Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth: <em>The All-seeing Eye (the hardcore-techno version) </em>

Art

Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth

Tuesday 11/11 @ BFI Southbank

Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual... 

Katie Paterson

Art

Katie Paterson

Tuesday 11/11 @ Albion

Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link... 

<em>Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008</em>

Art: Photography

Photographic Portrait Prize 2008

Tuesday 11/11 @ National Portrait Gallery

This year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery includes a shot of Rupert Murdoch competing against a... 

Robin Footitt: <em>Rescue Attempt</em>

Art

Robin Footitt

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

The Make Lounge: Knockout Knickers

Fashion/Style

Knockout Knickers

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Make Lounge

This workshop by lingerie and accessories designer Ruka Johnson at Islington's Make Lounge aims to spice up London's underwear drawers. The... 

<em>Polaroid Retrospective</em>

Art: Photography

Polaroid Retrospective

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

Stephanie Quayle: <em>Bull in a China Shop</em>

Art

Bull in a China Shop

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

Francis Bacon

Art

Francis Bacon

Tuesday 11/11 @ Tate Britain

As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the... 

Jules de Goede and Gallery Artists

Art

Jules de Goede

Tuesday 11/11 @ Broadbent Gallery

In this new group show at Broadbent Gallery, works from contemporary abstract artists provide a more-than-credible milieu to ten recently uncovered... 

<em>Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from the Courtauld</em>

Art

Turner Watercolours

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours... 

<em>Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms</em>

Art

Andy Warhol

Tuesday 11/11 @ Hayward Gallery

Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was... 

<em>Aliens & Exiles</em>

Art

Aliens & Exiles

Tuesday 11/11 @ Alberto Vilar Gallery

Core Arts' new exhibition attempts to convince Londoners to forget those oh-so-experimental student shows and big-name, high-price exhibitions for a week... 

Richard Serra

Art

Richard Serra

Tuesday 11/11 @ Various locations

Minimalist sculptor Richard Serra heaves a load of metal slabs through customs for his first UK exhibition for more than a... 

Sarah Moon &ndash; <em>1, 2, 3, 4, 5</em>

Art

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Tuesday 11/11 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery

Impressionist snapper Sarah Moon combines previously unseen fashion plates with the fairytale images that took her to the top of commercial... 

<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

JR: <em>28 Millimetres: Women</em>

Art: Photography

28 Millimetres: Women

Tuesday 11/11 @ Various locations

Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over... 

Gerhard Richter: <em>4900 Colours: Version II</em>

Art

Gerhard Richter

Tuesday 11/11 @ Serpentine Gallery

For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium.... 

<em>Soho Archives: 1950s & 1960s</em>

Art: Photography

Soho Archives

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

<em>Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers</em>

Special Event

Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Women's Library

Between the Covers dips into the print archives of the Women's Library to explore how magazines have built relationships with readers... 

Cildo Meireles

Art

Cildo Meireles

Tuesday 11/11 @ Tate Modern

Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such... 

<em>Demons, Yarns & Tales</em>

Art

Demon, Yarns & Tales

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Dairy

Three years ago, arts group Banners of Persuasion commissioned 15 artists to revive the lost art of wall-hanging tapestry. Today sees... 

<em>Ivanov </em>

Theatre

Ivanov

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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,... 

<em>Wildlife Photographer of the Year</em>

Art: Photography

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Tuesday 11/11 @ Natural History Museum

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether... 

<em>30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia</em>

Art

30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Horse Hospital

30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia explores the age-old theory of cryptomnesia — the brain passsing off a hidden memory as a new... 

<em>Fashion V Sport</em>

Special Event

Fashion V Sport

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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.... 

<em>Signs</em>

Art

Signs

Tuesday 11/11 @ Tatty Devine

Lo-tech cut 'n paste artist Mark Pawson breaks away from his usual fayre of postcards, badges and rubber stamps decorated with... 

Turner Prize 08

Art

Turner Prize

Tuesday 11/11 @ Tate Britain

Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of... 

<em>Beside the Seaside: Snapshots of British Coastal Life, 1880-1950</em>

Art: Photography

Beside the Seaside

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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.... 

Photomonth

Art: Photography

Photomonth

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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...