Events on Monday, December 8

Goodbye, Faithful Kingdom! w/ the Hellset Orchestra, the Monroe Transfer and Anchorsong

Music

Goodbye, Faithful Kingdom!

Monday 8/12 @ The Macbeth

Now in its ninth instalment, the Macbeth's indie monthly Goodbye, Faithful Kingdom! is gaining a granite reputation for presenting meaningful and... 

Durrr presents Simon Bookish

Music: Experimental

Durrr presents Simon Bookish

Monday 8/12 @ The End

Simon Bookish, who headlines Rory Phillips' ever-reliable school-night shindig this evening, is a man of many contradictions. Classicly trained in composition... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Monday 8/12 @ Natural History Museum

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

<em>Hamlet </em>

Theatre

Hamlet

Monday 8/12 @ The Novello Theatre

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

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

Art: Photography

Writers' Rooms

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Rothko</em>

Art

Rothko

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Signs</em>

Art

Signs

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Beauty Untold: Portraits from the Street</em>

Art: Photography

Beauty Untold

Monday 8/12 @ Topshop

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

Cildo Meireles

Art

Cildo Meireles

Monday 8/12 @ Tate Modern

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

T. S. Eliot Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

T. S. Eliot Festival

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Oleg Vassiliev

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Monday 8/12 @ The Science Museum

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

GSK Contemporary

Art

GSK Contemporary

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from the Courtauld</em>

Art

Turner Watercolours

Monday 8/12 @ The Courtauld Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Beside the Seaside

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Cupboard Love 3</em>

City Gems

Cupboard Love 3

Monday 8/12 @ 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.... 

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

Art

The Olympic Stadium Project

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

<em>The Animal Gaze</em>

Art

The Animal Gaze

Monday 8/12 @ Various

This multimedia group show spread across three East End venues explores the fruitful relationship between art and animals. Photographic greyhound portraits... 

<em>Homeless in the Capital</em>

Art

Homeless in the Capital

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

Francis Bacon

Art

Francis Bacon

Monday 8/12 @ Tate Britain

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

<em>Turning the Season</em>

City Gems

Turning the Season

Monday 8/12 @ The Wapping Project

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

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

Special Event

Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Monday 8/12 @ Design Museum

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains... 

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

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Art of the Poster

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

Wig Out!

Performing Arts

Wig Out!

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

Turner Prize 08

Art

Turner Prize

Monday 8/12 @ Tate Britain

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

Art: Photography

Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury

Monday 8/12 @ Proud Central

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

Natural History Museum Ice Rink

City Gems

Natural History Museum Ice Rink

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008</em>

Art: Photography

Photographic Portrait Prize 2008

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

<em>The Norman Conquests</em>

Theatre

The Norman Conquests

Monday 8/12 @ 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... 

<em>Sterling Stuff II</em>

Art

Sterling Stuff II

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Fashion V Sport</em>

Special Event

Fashion V Sport

Monday 8/12 @ 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.... 

<em>Dispersion</em>

Art

Dispersion

Monday 8/12 @ ICA

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

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

Art: Photography

Edwardian Outdoor Games

Monday 8/12 @ 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>Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms</em>

Art

Andy Warhol

Monday 8/12 @ Hayward Gallery

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

Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss

City Gems

Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss

Monday 8/12 @ 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...