Events on Wednesday, November 12
Wednesday 12/11 @ National Film Theatre
This double-header is the highlight of the NFT's month-long Coen brothers' exploration, a season devoted to the Burn After Reading directors'...
Cybersonica Social presents the Sound Of Games
Wednesday 12/11 @ The FleaPit
Tonight's Cybersonica Social at the Flea-Pit on Columbia Road takes the just-completed alternative videogames festival London Games Fringe as its musical...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/11 @ Riverside Studios
The Cumnor Affair is a whodunit with a difference: an operatic murder mystery set in Elizabethan England. The atmospheric tale of...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Impressionist snapper Sarah Moon combines previously unseen fashion plates with the fairytale images that took her to the top of commercial...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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
Wednesday 12/11 @ Various locations
Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over...
The Mushrooms of the Russian Avant-Garde
Wednesday 12/11 @ Rochelle School
The first UK show by Moscow Conceptualists Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina explores the form and hallucinogenic properties of magic mushrooms....
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Grief is provocative photographer Erwin Olaf's final installation in a trilogy of portraits inspired by the decor, fashion and feminist factions...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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
Wednesday 12/11 @ BFI Southbank
Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Albion
Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link...
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Nettie Horn
Dyfuncadelia, the latest exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate Debbie Lawson, takes the '70s home-decoration obsession with carpeting a step...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Artspace Gallery
Jeffrey Dennis' Extracts from the Log explores the tensions simmering beneath the surface of our beloved metropolis. In this distinctly dystopian...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Various locations
Minimalist sculptor Richard Serra heaves a load of metal slabs through customs for his first UK exhibition for more than a...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Serpentine Gallery
For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium....
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Wednesday 12/11 @ The Dairy
Three years ago, arts group Banners of Persuasion commissioned 15 artists to revive the lost art of wall-hanging tapestry. Today sees...
Wednesday 12/11 @ South London Gallery
Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Wednesday 12/11 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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....
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/11 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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....
Wednesday 12/11 @ 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...
