Events on Thursday, November 6
Thursday 6/11 @ Laban
Melanie Clarke is one of the biggest stars of contemporary dance company Laban. Tonight's show demonstrates that Clarke is as talented...
True Primes and Family Battle Snake
Thursday 6/11 @ Bardens Boudoir
Brooklynites True Primes unleash some abstract noise for their debut UK performance, ably suppported by hazy psychedelists Family Battle Snake.
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/11 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Impressionist snapper Sarah Moon combines previously unseen fashion plates with the fairytale images that took her to the top of commercial...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Thursday 6/11 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Various locations
Provocateur photographer JR transforms Soho into a teeming favela for his new exhibition, 28 Millimetres: Women. The Parisian snapper takes over...
Thursday 6/11 @ Museum of Childhood
Exploring the ever-changing face of the trade that in east London, Tom Hunter's portraits document the varied mechants and wares of...
Thursday 6/11 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Thursday 6/11 @ Riflemaker Gallery
American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade...
Thursday 6/11 @ Pangolin London
Pangolin Gallery's inaugural exhibition kicks off with new works by sculptor Peter Randall-Page, inspired by the mystical rock gongs the artist...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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...
Thursday 6/11 @ Rudy's Revenge
On the first Thursday of every month, indulge in Rum Punch, hosted by show-openers Partnas in Rhyme. The format is either...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Alberto Vilar Gallery
Core Arts' new exhibition attempts to convince Londoners to forget those oh-so-experimental student shows and big-name, high-price exhibitions for a week...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Thursday 6/11 @ BFI Southbank
Following the success of their 2005 Academy Award winner Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French director Michel Gondry and visual...
Thursday 6/11 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Thursday 6/11 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Thursday 6/11 @ Albion
Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link...
Thursday 6/11 @ Nettie Horn
Dyfuncadelia, the latest exhibition by Royal College of Art graduate Debbie Lawson, takes the '70s home-decoration obsession with carpeting a step...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Artspace Gallery
Jeffrey Dennis' Extracts from the Log explores the tensions simmering beneath the surface of our beloved metropolis. In this distinctly dystopian...
Thursday 6/11 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
The Mushrooms of the Russian Avant-Garde
Thursday 6/11 @ Rochelle School
The first UK show by Moscow Conceptualists Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina explores the form and hallucinogenic properties of magic mushrooms....
Thursday 6/11 @ Serpentine Gallery
For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium....
Thursday 6/11 @ 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....
Thursday 6/11 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
Thursday 6/11 @ Association of Photographers Gallery
This Association of Photographers' exhibition of Polaroid work celebrates the invention of the instant camera by American scientist Edwin Land in...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ The Photographers' Gallery
Originally a hunting ground, and briefly a haven for the wealthy, London's Soho is the heart of the gay district, a...
Thursday 6/11 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Thursday 6/11 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Various locations
Minimalist sculptor Richard Serra heaves a load of metal slabs through customs for his first UK exhibition for more than a...
Natural History Museum Ice Rink
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Rathbone
Former NME snapper Chris Clunn has spent the past 25 years recording the lives of ordinary — and often extraordinary —...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Thursday 6/11 @ Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
While awaiting the fifth season of Lost, satiate your appetite for fantastical drama by visiting Charles Avery's imaginary island. The Islanders,...
Thursday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Southbank Centre
Klang: A Tribute to Karlheinz Stockhausen is a weeklong festival celebrating the German composer's work, featuring the world premiere of Urantia...
