Events on Wednesday, December 3

<em>Messiah</em>

Music: Classical

Messiah

Wednesday 3/12 @ Barbican

World-renowned choir and period-instrument ensemble the Sixteen and their founder/conductor Harry Christophers mark 13 years together with a concert at the... 

Clash End of Year Revue

Music: Electronic

Clash End of Year Revue

Wednesday 3/12 @ Proud Camden

Music-meets-fashion mag Clash have never put on a bad party and even if they did no-one would remember. Tonight is no... 

Music: Experimental

Nonclassical Battle of the Bands

Wednesday 3/12 @ The Macbeth

This new night by alt.classical record label Nonclassical showcases new chamber acts with baroque, avant-garde and even techno influences. It also... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

Dream Villa

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

<em>Hamlet </em>

Theatre

Hamlet

Wednesday 3/12 @ The Novello Theatre

It goes without saying that David Tennant is marvellous as the student prince — melancholy, hyperactive and witty in equal measure... 

<em>Felix's Machines</em>

Art

Felix's Machines

Wednesday 3/12 @ Gasworks

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

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Wednesday 3/12 @ The Science Museum

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

<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

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

Turner Prize 08

Art

Turner Prize

Wednesday 3/12 @ Tate Britain

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

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

Art

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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

City Gems

Natural History Museum Ice Rink

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Art of the Poster

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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 London... 

T. S. Eliot Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

T. S. Eliot Festival

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

David O'Doherty

Comedy

David O'Doherty

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

Eamonn McCabe: <em>Writers' Rooms</em>

Art: Photography

Writers' Rooms

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

<em>Turning the Season</em>

City Gems

Turning the Season

Wednesday 3/12 @ The Wapping Project

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

Francis Bacon

Art

Francis Bacon

Wednesday 3/12 @ Tate Britain

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

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

Art

Cut & Paste

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Edwardian Outdoor Games

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Photographic Portrait Prize 2008

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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

City Gems

Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

<em>Sterling Stuff II</em>

Art

Sterling Stuff II

Wednesday 3/12 @ Pangolin London

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

<em>The Animal Gaze</em>

Art

The Animal Gaze

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury

Wednesday 3/12 @ Proud Central

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

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

Art

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Wednesday 3/12 @ Embankment Galleries

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

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

Art

Andy Warhol

Wednesday 3/12 @ Hayward Gallery

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

<em>Beauty Untold: Portraits from the Street</em>

Art: Photography

Beauty Untold

Wednesday 3/12 @ Topshop

For this one-off exhibition at the Topshop flagship store on Oxford Street, British-Iranian photographer Sara Shamsavari shot portraits of people she... 

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

Art: Photography

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Wednesday 3/12 @ Natural History Museum

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

Matthew Bourne's <em>Edward Scissorhands</em>

Dance

Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

John Kørner

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

<em>Dispersion</em>

Art

Dispersion

Wednesday 3/12 @ ICA

In Dispersion, nine international artists use film, photography and performance to question the image explosion of recent times. The ambitious new... 

<em>Fashion V Sport</em>

Special Event

Fashion V Sport

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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.... 

Jules de Goede and Gallery Artists

Art

Jules de Goede

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Turner Watercolours

Wednesday 3/12 @ The Courtauld Gallery

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

Cildo Meireles

Art

Cildo Meireles

Wednesday 3/12 @ Tate Modern

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

<em>Cupboard Love 3</em>

City Gems

Cupboard Love 3

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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.... 

Oleg Vassiliev: <em>Recent Work</em>

Art

Oleg Vassiliev

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

Wig Out!

Performing Arts

Wig Out!

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

Art

Saul Steinberg: Illuminations

Wednesday 3/12 @ Dulwich Picture Gallery

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

<em>Signs</em>

Art

Signs

Wednesday 3/12 @ Tatty Devine

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

<em>Rothko</em>

Art

Rothko

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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>Beside the Seaside: Snapshots of British Coastal Life, 1880-1950</em>

Art: Photography

Beside the Seaside

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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.... 

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

Special Event

Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Olympic Stadium Project

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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... 

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

Wednesday 3/12 @ 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...