Events on Thursday, November 20
Thursday 20/11 @ British Museum
Forget Baghdad documents the disintegration of the Iraqi capital's Jewish community in the '50s, using an arresting four-pronged narration to explore...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Thursday 20/11 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
Thursday 20/11 @ Trafalgar Square
This interactive projection by digital artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer arrives fresh from a dazzling tour of the East Midlands to catch London's...
Thursday 20/11 @ The Wapping Project
Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping...
Thursday 20/11 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Thursday 20/11 @ Beverley Knowles Fine Art
The entrance to this Beverley Knowles Gallery show is an impressive floor-to-ceiling installation by Eleanor Wright made out of stacked filing...
Thursday 20/11 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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....
Natural History Museum Ice Rink
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ Shunt Lounge
Mondo Mancunia is a genre-crushing experimental music festival curated with typical wild ambition by Mancunian producer Graham Massey. (Massey helped put...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ Pangolin London
Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for...
Thursday 20/11 @ Artspace Gallery
Jeffrey Dennis' Extracts from the Log explores the tensions simmering beneath the surface of our beloved metropolis. In this distinctly dystopian...
Thursday 20/11 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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
Thursday 20/11 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Thursday 20/11 @ Southbank Centre
It's all a bit glum come November, with money-haemorrhaging Christmas around the corner, plus the onset of New Year's Eve planning...
Thursday 20/11 @ South London Gallery
Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of...
Thursday 20/11 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Grief is provocative photographer Erwin Olaf's final installation in a trilogy of portraits inspired by the decor, fashion and feminist factions...
Thursday 20/11 @ Various
This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits...
Thursday 20/11 @ ICA
Artist Luke Jerram's Dream Director installation is based on scientific research and attempts to record, witness and translate the dreams of...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Thursday 20/11 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ Cordy House
You Me Bum Bum Train must surely take a top gong for originality: participants are strapped into a wheelchair and then...
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ The Dairy
Three years ago, arts group Banners of Persuasion commissioned 15 artists to revive the lost art of wall-hanging tapestry. Today sees...
Thursday 20/11 @ Gasworks
Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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
Thursday 20/11 @ Royal College of Art
Postcard-sized art exhibition Secret is like a high-stakes game of Guess Who?. Each year, the RCA sends blank postcards to recent...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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....
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Thursday 20/11 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss
Thursday 20/11 @ Selected Hugo Boss shops
A facial de-stress at Hugo Boss is the ideal tonic for men for whom the mere mention of Christmas shopping induces...
Thursday 20/11 @ The Courtauld Gallery
Somerset House writer-in-residence Ruth Padel invites eminent writers to discuss their favourite paintings at the Courtauld Gallery over the winter months....
Thursday 20/11 @ Various locations
Minimalist sculptor Richard Serra heaves a load of metal slabs through customs for his first UK exhibition for more than a...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ Frith Street Gallery
Dayanita Singh, whose solo show Dream Villa is at Frith Street Gallery until mid-December, only recently chose black-and-white photography as her...
The Mushrooms of the Russian Avant-Garde
Thursday 20/11 @ Rochelle School
The first UK show by Moscow Conceptualists Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina explores the form and hallucinogenic properties of magic mushrooms....
Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
Thursday 20/11 @ 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...
Thursday 20/11 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Thursday 20/11 @ Donmar Warehouse
Covent Garden's Donmar Warehouse has gathered an impressive array of actors and directors in honour of poet T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot's...
