Events on Sunday, November 2

Los Desterrados

Music: Global

Los Desterrados

Sunday 2/11 @ The Liberal Jewish Synagogue

Los Desterrados (The Exiles) are a London-based six-piece playing in the Sephardic music tradition that originated in medieval Spain's Jewish communities... 

Performing Arts

ELECTRA with Macroprosopus Dancehall Band

Sunday 2/11 @ ICA

The Macroprosopus Dancehall Band have the honour of closing Nought to Sixty, the ICA's six-month showcase of underground artistic talent. The... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth

Sunday 2/11 @ BFI Southbank

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

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

Art

Robin Footitt

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

Cildo Meireles

Art

Cildo Meireles

Sunday 2/11 @ Tate Modern

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

Phil Clarke-Hill: <em>Lustrabotas</em>

Art: Photography

Lustrabotas

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Sunday 2/11 @ The Science Museum

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

Roger Hiorns: <em>Seizure</em>

Art

Roger Hiorns

Sunday 2/11 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Gerhard Richter

Sunday 2/11 @ Serpentine Gallery

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

<em>Room 01</em>

Art

Room 01

Sunday 2/11 @ Birol & Co Solicitors

Room 01 invites 15 artists to a suitably incongruous solicitor's office in Dalston to revel in the realms of fantasy and... 

Klang: A Tribute to Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music: Electronic

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Sunday 2/11 @ Southbank Centre

Klang: A Tribute to Karlheinz Stockhausen is a weeklong festival celebrating the German composer's work, featuring the world premiere of Urantia... 

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

Art: Photography

Beside the Seaside

Sunday 2/11 @ 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.... 

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

Art: Photography

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Sunday 2/11 @ Natural History Museum

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

GSK Contemporary

Art

GSK Contemporary

Sunday 2/11 @ 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>Fashion V Sport</em>

Special Event

Fashion V Sport

Sunday 2/11 @ 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>Soho Archives: 1950s & 1960s</em>

Art: Photography

Soho Archives

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

Turner Prize 08

Art

Turner Prize

Sunday 2/11 @ 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>Forever 27</em>

Art: Photography

Forever 27

Sunday 2/11 @ Proud Camden

Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the... 

Photomonth

Art: Photography

Photomonth

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Sunday 2/11 @ Design Museum

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

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

Art

Rivane Neuenschwander

Sunday 2/11 @ 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>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!

Art

Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!

Sunday 2/11 @ The Cartoon Museum

What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still... 

<em>Rothko</em>

Art

Rothko

Sunday 2/11 @ 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>Rock Music Rock Art</em>

Art

Rock Music Rock Art

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Edwardian Outdoor Games

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

<em>Material Presence</em>

Art

Material Presence

Sunday 2/11 @ 176

176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark... 

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

Art

The Olympic Stadium Project

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

Debbie Lawson: <em>Dyfuncadelia</em>

Art

Dyfuncadelia

Sunday 2/11 @ Nettie Horn

Dyfuncadelia, the latest exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate Debbie Lawson, takes the '70s home-decoration obsession with carpeting a step... 

Tom Hunter: <em>Are You Being Served?</em>

Art

Tom Hunter

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

<em>Cut & Paste: Photomontage 1920-1950</em>

Art

Cut & Paste

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Sunday 2/11 @ Embankment Galleries

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

Designer Sales UK

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Designer Sales UK

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

Battle of Ideas 2008

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Battle of Ideas 2008

Sunday 2/11 @ Royal College of Art

The annual Battle of Ideas festival brings together cultural and political movers for a weekend of searing-hot debate and razor-sharp opinion.... 

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

Art

Andy Warhol

Sunday 2/11 @ Hayward Gallery

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

<em>Ivanov </em>

Theatre

Ivanov

Sunday 2/11 @ 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>The Art of the Poster: A Century of Design</em>

Art

The Art of the Poster

Sunday 2/11 @ 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... 

<em>Nought to Sixty</em>

Art

Nought to Sixty

Sunday 2/11 @ ICA

The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,... 

Francis Bacon

Art

Francis Bacon

Sunday 2/11 @ Tate Britain

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

Charles Avery: <em>The Islanders: An Introduction</em>

Art

Charles Avery

Sunday 2/11 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Turner Watercolours

Sunday 2/11 @ The Courtauld Gallery

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