Events on Friday, November 21
Friday 21/11 @ ICA
Two of the biggest hopes for cool-pop team up for a joint showcase of futuristic melodies at the ICA. Blackpool lass...
Ongoing Events
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Grief is provocative photographer Erwin Olaf's final installation in a trilogy of portraits inspired by the decor, fashion and feminist factions...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ The Wapping Project
Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping...
Friday 21/11 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury
Friday 21/11 @ Proud Central
When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This...
Friday 21/11 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Friday 21/11 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Natural History Museum Ice Rink
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ British Museum
Waldemar Januszczak's comprehensive history-of-sculpture series, first aired last month on More4, moves to the Stevenson Lecture Theatre over the coming weeks...
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ Pangolin London
Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for...
Friday 21/11 @ Artspace Gallery
Jeffrey Dennis' Extracts from the Log explores the tensions simmering beneath the surface of our beloved metropolis. In this distinctly dystopian...
Friday 21/11 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ South London Gallery
Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander stages a characteristically magical show at the South London Gallery. In line with her inventive use of...
Friday 21/11 @ Various locations
Minimalist sculptor Richard Serra heaves a load of metal slabs through customs for his first UK exhibition for more than a...
Friday 21/11 @ Various
This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits...
Friday 21/11 @ ICA
Artist Luke Jerram's Dream Director installation is based on scientific research and attempts to record, witness and translate the dreams of...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
The Mushrooms of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday 21/11 @ Rochelle School
The first UK show by Moscow Conceptualists Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina explores the form and hallucinogenic properties of magic mushrooms....
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Friday 21/11 @ The Dairy
Three years ago, arts group Banners of Persuasion commissioned 15 artists to revive the lost art of wall-hanging tapestry. Today sees...
Friday 21/11 @ Gasworks
Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Friday 21/11 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ 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....
Friday 21/11 @ 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
Friday 21/11 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Friday 21/11 @ 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....
Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ Shunt Lounge
Mondo Mancunia is a genre-crushing experimental music festival curated with typical wild ambition by Mancunian producer Graham Massey. (Massey helped put...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
Friday 21/11 @ Royal Court Theatre
Wig Out! transforms the Royal Court into a heady cabaret club night of catwalk face-offs, toe-tapping tunes and coiffure rivalry. The...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Friday 21/11 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Friday 21/11 @ 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...
