Events on Saturday, November 29

Nowhere To Run Club w/ Eve White / Eve Black and ROMANCE

Music

Nowhere To Run Club

Saturday 29/11 @ The George Tavern

Nowhere To Run Club is a monthly night at the decadent-but-charming George Tavern in Stepney that aims to showcase the best... 

Mulletover Xmas Warm-up

Party

Mulletover Xmas Warm-up

Saturday 29/11 @ Secret location

Itinerant house and techno party kings Mulletover continue their series of rocking shindigs in secret east London locations by marshalling a... 

Ongoing Events

David O'Doherty

Comedy

David O'Doherty

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

Cildo Meireles

Art

Cildo Meireles

Saturday 29/11 @ Tate Modern

Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such... 

<em>The Animal Gaze</em>

Art

The Animal Gaze

Saturday 29/11 @ Various

This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits... 

GSK Contemporary

Art

GSK Contemporary

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Sterling Stuff II</em>

Art

Sterling Stuff II

Saturday 29/11 @ Pangolin London

Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for... 

<em>Turning the Season</em>

City Gems

Turning the Season

Saturday 29/11 @ The Wapping Project

Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping... 

<em>Fashion V Sport</em>

Special Event

Fashion V Sport

Saturday 29/11 @ 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.... 

Jules de Goede and Gallery Artists

Art

Jules de Goede

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from the Courtauld</em>

Art

Turner Watercolours

Saturday 29/11 @ The Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours... 

<em>Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers</em>

Special Event

Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

Jan Kjetil Bj&oslash;rheim: <em>The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light</em>

Art

The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

You Me Bum Bum Train

City Gems

You Me Bum Bum Train

Saturday 29/11 @ Cordy House

You Me Bum Bum Train must surely take a top gong for originality: participants are strapped into a wheelchair and then... 

<em>The Olympic Stadium Project - Le Corbusier and Baghdad</em>

Art

The Olympic Stadium Project

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia</em>

Art

30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

John K&oslash;rner: <em>War Problems</em>

Art

John Kørner

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury

Saturday 29/11 @ Proud Central

When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This... 

<em>Rothko</em>

Art

Rothko

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Cut & Paste: Photomontage 1920-1950</em>

Art

Cut & Paste

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

Photomonth

Art: Photography

Photomonth

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

Alan Aldridge: <em>The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes</em>

Art

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Saturday 29/11 @ Design Museum

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

Kill Your Timid Notion

Festival: Performing Arts

Kill Your Timid Notion

Saturday 29/11 @ Various

The Kill Your Timid Notion tour arrives in London for a weekend exploring the crossover between sound and image. (This is... 

<em>The Art of the Poster: A Century of Design</em>

Art

The Art of the Poster

Saturday 29/11 @ 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 London... 

<em>Audio Forensics</em>

Art

Audio Forensics

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Saturday 29/11 @ The Science Museum

Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... 

<em>A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding</em>

Special Event

A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding

Saturday 29/11 @ Whitecross Gallery

In this provocative exhibition at the Whitecross Street Gallery, multimedia works by father-and-son artists John and Jock Mooney go head to... 

Turner Prize 08

Art

Turner Prize

Saturday 29/11 @ Tate Britain

Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of... 

<em>Beside the Seaside: Snapshots of British Coastal Life, 1880-1950</em>

Art: Photography

Beside the Seaside

Saturday 29/11 @ 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

City Gems

Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

Wig Out!

Performing Arts

Wig Out!

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008</em>

Art: Photography

Photographic Portrait Prize 2008

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Felix's Machines</em>

Art

Felix's Machines

Saturday 29/11 @ Gasworks

Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to... 

Expanded Cinema for Rothko

Film

Expanded Cinema for Rothko

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Signs</em>

Art

Signs

Saturday 29/11 @ Tatty Devine

Lo-tech cut 'n paste artist Mark Pawson breaks away from his usual fayre of postcards, badges and rubber stamps decorated with... 

Francis Bacon

Art

Francis Bacon

Saturday 29/11 @ Tate Britain

As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the... 

Art

Saul Steinberg: Illuminations

Saturday 29/11 @ Dulwich Picture Gallery

Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker... 

<em>Edwardian Outdoor Games: Photographs by Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles</em>

Art: Photography

Edwardian Outdoor Games

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms</em>

Art

Andy Warhol

Saturday 29/11 @ Hayward Gallery

Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was... 

T. S. Eliot Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

T. S. Eliot Festival

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Ivanov </em>

Theatre

Ivanov

Saturday 29/11 @ 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,... 

<em>Wildlife Photographer of the Year</em>

Art: Photography

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Saturday 29/11 @ Natural History Museum

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether... 

Jacqui Bellamy: <em>Latrino Gals</em>

Art: Photography

Jacqui Bellamy: Latrino Gals

Saturday 29/11 @ The FleaPit

Jacqui Bellamy's debut solo exhibition was unusually created by loitering in women's toilets night after night. Pixelwitch Pictures snapper Bellamy realised... 

<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

Dayanita Singh: <em>Dream Villa</em>

Art: Photography

Dream Villa

Saturday 29/11 @ 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... 

<em>Wouldn't It Be Nice... Wishful Thinking in Art and Design</em>

Art

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Saturday 29/11 @ Embankment Galleries

The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for... 

<em>Material Presence</em>

Art

Material Presence

Saturday 29/11 @ 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

City Gems

Natural History Museum Ice Rink

Saturday 29/11 @ 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...