Events on Sunday, November 2
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- Music: Global
- Los Desterrados
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts
- ELECTRA with Macroprosopus Dancehall Band
- @ ICA
- The Macroprosopus Dancehall Band have the honour of closing Nought to Sixty, the ICA's six-month showcase of underground artistic talent. The... View details »
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- Rothko
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- @ Southbank Centre
- Klang: A Tribute to Karlheinz Stockhausen is a weeklong festival celebrating the German composer's work, featuring the world premiere of Urantia... View details »
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- Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
- @ BFI Southbank
- Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual... View details »
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- Room 01
- @ 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... View details »
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- Andy Warhol
- @ Hayward Gallery
- Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was... View details »
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- Roger Hiorns
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Listening Post
- @ The Science Museum
- Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year
- @ Natural History Museum
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether... View details »
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- Rivane Neuenschwander
- @ South London Gallery
- Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Haozhan
- @ Haozhan
- Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey... View details »
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- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- @ Embankment Galleries
- The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for... View details »
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- Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
- @ The Cartoon Museum
- What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- The Olympic Stadium Project
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Stratford Hoard
- @ Stratford Station
- The Stratford Hoard is an exhibition for Transport for London's Platform for Art project at Stratford station in anticipation of the... View details »
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- Francis Bacon
- @ Tate Britain
- As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Norman Conquests
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Forever 27
- @ Proud Camden
- Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the... View details »
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- Rock Music Rock Art
- @ 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... View details »
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- Turner Watercolours
- @ The Courtauld Institute of Art
- The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ivanov
- @ 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,... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Dehesa
- @ Dehesa
- Together with Alan Yau's Cha Cha Moon and ace burger joint the Diner, Dehesa completes Ganton Street's status as the epicentre... View details »
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- Cildo Meireles
- @ Tate Modern
- Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such... View details »
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- Charles Avery
- @ 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,... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Café on the Hill
- @ Cafe on the Hill
- With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like... View details »
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- Dyfuncadelia
- @ Nettie Horn
- Dyfuncadelia, the latest exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate Debbie Lawson, takes the '70s home-decoration obsession with carpeting a step... View details »
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- Gerhard Richter
- @ Serpentine Gallery
- For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium.... View details »
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- Nought to Sixty
- @ ICA
- The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Beside the Seaside
- @ 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.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Fashion V Sport
- @ 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.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Sports
- London Fencing Club
- @ Finsbury Leisure Centre
- If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that,"... View details »
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- GSK Contemporary
- @ 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... View details »
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- Turner Prize
- @ Tate Britain
- Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Photomonth
- @ 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... View details »
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- Material Presence
- @ 176
- 176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark... View details »
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- More Flavor: Shopping
- Designer Sales UK
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
- @ Design Museum
- The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Soho Archives
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Art of the Poster
- @ Covent Garden Market Piazza
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The eye-catching, amusing and sometimes wry art displayed on the Tube is the subject of a major retrospective at the
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- Art: Photography
- Lustrabotas
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tom Hunter
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- The Regent
- @ The Regent
- If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Edwardian Outdoor Games
- @ 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... View details »
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- For Your Eyes Only
- @ 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... View details »
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- Robin Footitt
- @ 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... View details »
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- Cut & Paste
- @ 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... View details »
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