Events on Friday, November 28
Mesh presents Don't Bank On It
Friday 28/11 @ Adam Street
Online "cultural marketplace" Mesh has a habit of throwing downright unmissable parties. The latest instalment features chunky funk from DJs Young...
Friday 28/11 @ Matter
Brooklyn producer Andy Butler brings his DFA Records-signed live disco workout to Matter tonight, with the characteristic vocals of Brit Antony...
Friday 28/11 @ Corsica Studios
Soho record shop Phonica celebrates its 5th anniversary tonight, having managed to survive a digital era that has caused many other...
Ongoing Events
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ Various
This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits...
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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
Friday 28/11 @ 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...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Friday 28/11 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
Friday 28/11 @ 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...
Friday 28/11 @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker...
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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...
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ Gasworks
Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to...
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ Proud Central
When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This...
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ Tate Modern
Four pioneering audio-visual artists respond to Mark Rothko's paintings this weekend at Tate Modern. On Friday evening, Luke Fowler, Keith Rowe...
Friday 28/11 @ Victoria Miro Gallery
War Problems, John Kørner's ambitious new exhibition at Victoria Miro, takes over the entire gallery with 16 large-scale canvases. The artist...
Friday 28/11 @ IMT
IMT's gallery is transformed into a sonic retreat to showcase the final projects from the London College of Communication's first-ever MA...
Friday 28/11 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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
Friday 28/11 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Friday 28/11 @ 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...
Friday 28/11 @ Soho Theatre
Stand-up comedian David O'Doherty won the if.comedy (formerly known as the Perrier) award at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. His quirky, endearing...
Friday 28/11 @ Faggionato Fine Art
Oleg Vassiliev, who has chosen Faggionato Fine Art for his first UK exhibition, was a major player in Russia's dissident art...
Friday 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ 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 28/11 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Friday 28/11 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Friday 28/11 @ 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...
