Events on Friday, December 12
Friday 12/12 @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker...
Friday 12/12 @ Holster Projects
Beyond Borders is a group show featuring artists who graduated during the past couple of years. Although seven of the eight...
Friday 12/12 @ 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....
Friday 12/12 @ Topshop
For this one-off exhibition at the Topshop flagship store on Oxford Street, British-Iranian photographer Sara Shamsavari shot portraits of people she...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Various locations
The Spitalfields Winter Festival sprinkles east London with seasonal shenanigans via concerts, walks, tours and outdoor events. Ghostly apparitions of a...
Friday 12/12 @ ICA
In Dispersion, nine international artists use film, photography and performance to question the image explosion of recent times. The ambitious new...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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
Friday 12/12 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Friday 12/12 @ Bloomberg SPACE
This exhibition of newly-commissioned portraits at Bloomberg SPACE features photographers Poppy de Villeneuve, Roderick Buchanan, Sarah Jones and Muzi Quawson. Within...
Friday 12/12 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Friday 12/12 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Friday 12/12 @ 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....
Friday 12/12 @ James Freeman Gallery
Five Years features contemporary pieces by 15 artists from call around the world, marking the relaunch of the newly expanded Sesame...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Bankside
The annual Winter Festival rolls into Bankside, bringing with it an attractive combination of mulled wine, festive tradition and Siberian huskies....
Friday 12/12 @ The Brick Lane Gallery
Via Brick Lane is the first in a new series emphasising street art and public urban spaces at The Brick Lane...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Various
This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Friday 12/12 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Curzon Soho
The Smoking Cabinet, a long weekend devoted to big-screen burlesque from the late-19th and early-20th centuries, kicks off with EA Dupont's...
Friday 12/12 @ Gasworks
Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury
Friday 12/12 @ Proud Central
When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Friday 12/12 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Natural History Museum Ice Rink
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
The Makers of Theatre Festival
Friday 12/12 @ The Albany
The StoneCrabs theatre company team up with the Albany in Deptford for this three-day festival featuring staged readings of nine cracking...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Friday 12/12 @ 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
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ The Wapping Project
Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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....
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ 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...
Friday 12/12 @ Pangolin London
Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for...
Even Better Together Billboard Project + Open Studio
Friday 12/12 @ Gasworks
Gasworks' façade has been given a much-needed facelift with this eye-catching billboard display created through a collaboration between local residents and...
