Events on Sunday, December 14
Sunday 14/12 @ T Bar
As another year draws to a close, so too another iconic London venue; this time it's the turn of Shoreditch's T...
The RSC Alternative Christmas Lecture
Sunday 14/12 @ Wilton's Music Hall
In the RSC's inaugural alternative festive lecture, Vivienne Westwood presents her own Christmas message. The grande dame of fashion deliveres a...
Sugarlesque Pastie-Making Workshop
Sunday 14/12 @ What Katie Did
Sugarlesque's Ruka demonstrates how to make a pair of nipple pasties, those tiny glittery things beloved of burlesque dancers the world...
Laughterinoddplaces Xmas Hoo-Haa!
Sunday 14/12 @ Red Gate Gallery
For this year's Christmas extravaganza, the award-winning Laughterinoddplaces take over the Red Gate Gallery for four hours of unpredictable comedy. Terry...
Ongoing Events
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Sunday 14/12 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Sunday 14/12 @ St Aloysius Social Club
The Wills-Moody Jumble Sale is a great place to overhaul your summer wardrobe while avoiding high-street frenzy. At the utterly reasonable...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Natural History Museum Ice Rink
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Sunday 14/12 @ Bankside
The annual Winter Festival rolls into Bankside, bringing with it an attractive combination of mulled wine, festive tradition and Siberian huskies....
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ Gasworks
Felix’s Machines are intricate triumphs of mechanical music-making, using assorted detritus such as disassembled pianos, towel racks and alarm clocks to...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ Holster Projects
Beyond Borders is a group show featuring artists who graduated during the past couple of years. Although seven of the eight...
Sunday 14/12 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Sunday 14/12 @ The Old Truman Brewery
Saving the environment one pair of pants at a time, the Eco Design Fair flogs wares with a conscience this weekend....
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Sunday 14/12 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
Sunday 14/12 @ The Wapping Project
Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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....
Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury
Sunday 14/12 @ Proud Central
When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker...
The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ Swanfield
The Swanfield pop-up boutique provides a cosy indoor addition to the winter market circuit around Brick Lane. Each Sunday it hosts...
Sunday 14/12 @ Pangolin London
Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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....
Sunday 14/12 @ 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....
Even Better Together Billboard Project + Open Studio
Sunday 14/12 @ Gasworks
Gasworks' façade has been given a much-needed facelift with this eye-catching billboard display created through a collaboration between local residents and...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ ICA
In Dispersion, nine international artists use film, photography and performance to question the image explosion of recent times. The ambitious new...
Sunday 14/12 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Sunday 14/12 @ 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...
Sunday 14/12 @ Various locations
The Spitalfields Winter Festival sprinkles east London with seasonal shenanigans via concerts, walks, tours and outdoor events. Ghostly apparitions of a...
