Events on Friday, December 5
Friday 5/12 @ Bush Hall
TV comedian Chris Addison, better known for playing "Ollie" in political satire The Thick Of It and for co-starring in BBC2...
Bleep43 feat. Surgeon and Scorn
Friday 5/12 @ Corsica Studios
Although Surgeon made his name as a fierce techno DJ, he often spreads his wings at these Bleep43 parties and uses...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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
Friday 5/12 @ 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
Friday 5/12 @ 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...
Friday 5/12 @ 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...
Friday 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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...
Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury
Friday 5/12 @ Proud Central
When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This...
Friday 5/12 @ Tate Britain
As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the...
Friday 5/12 @ 176
176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark...
Friday 5/12 @ 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
Friday 5/12 @ 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
Friday 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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...
Friday 5/12 @ Various
This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits...
Friday 5/12 @ Shoreditch Town Hall
For this quirky exhibition, 100 artists, illustrators and photographers were asked to create work based on song lyrics about London. Chas...
Friday 5/12 @ 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...
A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding
Friday 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ Embankment Galleries
The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for...
Friday 5/12 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Friday 5/12 @ 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
Friday 5/12 @ 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 Edward Scissorhands
Friday 5/12 @ 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...
Friday 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Friday 5/12 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Friday 5/12 @ 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....
The Effing and Blinding Cabaret
Friday 5/12 @ Rich Mix
The Effing and Blinding Cabaret is a show by five blind performers from Extant, Britain's only theatre company of visually impaired...
Friday 5/12 @ Pangolin London
Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for...
Friday 5/12 @ 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...
Friday 5/12 @ ICA
In Dispersion, nine international artists use film, photography and performance to question the image explosion of recent times. The ambitious new...
Friday 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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 5/12 @ 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
Friday 5/12 @ 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...
Friday 5/12 @ 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...
The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light
Friday 5/12 @ 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...
