Events on Thursday, December 11
Thursday 11/12 @ BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank's live-music residency Roots and Shoots presents Hal Ashby's cult flick Harold and Maude (1971), followed by a performance of...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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...
Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury
Thursday 11/12 @ Proud Central
When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This...
Thursday 11/12 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Greenwich foot tunnel
Occupy My Time's Cupboard Love 3 disproves the conventional art wisdom that white cubes are the ideal environment for exhibiting art....
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ ICA
In Dispersion, nine international artists use film, photography and performance to question the image explosion of recent times. The ambitious new...
Thursday 11/12 @ Madison Contemporary Art
Eamonn McCabe's new exhibition is a fascinating journey into the environments in which the country's leading writers produce their masterpieces. These...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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....
Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Various locations
The Spitalfields Winter Festival sprinkles east London with seasonal shenanigans via concerts, walks, tours and outdoor events. Ghostly apparitions of a...
Even Better Together Billboard Project + Open Studio
Thursday 11/12 @ Gasworks
Gasworks' façade has been given a much-needed facelift with this eye-catching billboard display created through a collaboration between local residents and...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ Various
This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ St Martins Lane Hotel
Given that Wallpaper* magazine collaborates with renowned photographers every issue, dipping into its extensive archive for the limited-edition prints exhibited here...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Natural History Museum Ice Rink
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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
Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands
Thursday 11/12 @ Sadler's Wells
Demonstrating that Walthamstow has delivered more than early-'90s boy-banders to the world, choreographer and E17 native Matthew Bourne — whose past...
Thursday 11/12 @ Gasworks
Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to...
Thursday 11/12 @ Museum of London
Given that there are an estimated 150,000 homeless individuals in the city, the Museum of London's exhibition offers a poignant slice of reality...
A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
The Makers of Theatre Festival
Thursday 11/12 @ The Albany
The StoneCrabs theatre company team up with the Albany in Deptford for this three-day festival featuring staged readings of nine cracking...
Thursday 11/12 @ Pangolin London
Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ The Wapping Project
Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping...
Thursday 11/12 @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker...
Thursday 11/12 @ Holster Projects
Beyond Borders is a group show featuring artists who graduated during the past couple of years. Although seven of the eight...
Thursday 11/12 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Thursday 11/12 @ Topshop
For this one-off exhibition at the Topshop flagship store on Oxford Street, British-Iranian photographer Sara Shamsavari shot portraits of people she...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Thursday 11/12 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
