Events on Friday, November 28
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- Music: Electronic
- Hercules and Love Affair
- @ Matter
- Brooklyn producer Andy Butler brings his DFA Records-signed live disco workout to Matter tonight, with the characteristic vocals of Brit Antony... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Phonica 5th Birthday
- @ Corsica Studios
- Soho record shop Phonica celebrates its 5th anniversary tonight, having managed to survive a digital era that has caused many other... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Mesh presents Don't Bank On It
- @ Adam Street
- Online "cultural marketplace" Mesh has a habit of throwing downright unmissable parties. The latest instalment features chunky funk from DJs Young... View details »
Ongoing Events
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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 Animal Gaze
- @ Various
- This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits... View details »
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- Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
- @ 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... View details »
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- Audio Forensics
- @ 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... 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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- Art: Photography
- Dream Villa
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- T. S. Eliot Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Signs
- @ Tatty Devine
- Lo-tech cut 'n paste artist Mark Pawson breaks away from his usual fayre of postcards, badges and rubber stamps decorated with... 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Natural History Museum Ice Rink
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- The Story of Sculpture
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- 30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia
- @ 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... 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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- Sterling Stuff II
- @ Pangolin London
- Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for... 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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- 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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- Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
- @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker... 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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- 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: Comedy
- David O'Doherty
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jules de Goede
- @ 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... 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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- Film
- Expanded Cinema for Rothko
- @ 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... 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
- 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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- 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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- Felix's Machines
- @ Gasworks
- Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to... View details »
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- Oleg Vassiliev
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light
- @ Space Station Sixty-Five
- The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light by Norwegian artist Jan Kjetil Bjørheim is the latest in a... 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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- Turning the Season
- @ The Wapping Project
- Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping... 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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- John Kørner
- @ 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... 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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- 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: City Gem
- Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury
- @ Proud Central
- When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This... 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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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Wig Out!
- @ 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... 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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