All events on Tuesday February 26

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Notting Hill Behind the Scenes
Tuesday 26 Feb (6:30pm) @ Louise T Blouin Institute
Daunt Books' warm, oak-galleried interior has earned it a top spot on every poll of the capital's favourite bookshops. The store also organises a damn... View details »
Notting Hill Behind the Scenes
Music: Rock/Pop
Fanfarlo
Tuesday 26 Feb (7:30pm) @ The Luminaire
Hailing from London but channeling Scandinavian melancholy, Fanfarlo deliver their morose vocals with a wild abandon matched by few bands. The indie-pop sextet have been... View details »
Fanfarlo
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Who Needs Copyright?
Tuesday 26 Feb (8pm) @ The Wheatsheaf
Free
The premise behind Big Ideas is relatively simple: pose a question, promote a debate. The sporadically arranged series — held in various pubs across London... View details »
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Islands
Tuesday 26 Feb (8pm) @ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
Sold Out!
Montreal's Islands had already collaborated with Beck, Wolf Parade and Arcade Fire when they released their debut LP, Return to the Sea, back in 2006.... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Islands
Music: Rock/Pop
Holy Cow
Tuesday 26 Feb (7pm) @ The Social
Emily Eavis' Holy Cow showcase may be a downsize from her gargantuan Glasto post, but the club night of unsigned London acts has just as... View details »
Holy Cow

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Amora
Tuesday 26 Feb (1pm–midnight) @ Amora More times »
Amora — the Academy of Sex and Relationships — offers an educational exploration of all aspects of intimacy. Seven distinct zones take you through everything... View details »
Amora
Art
Moore at Kew
Tuesday 26 Feb (9:30am–6:30pm) @ Royal Botanic Gardens More times »
Twenty-eight of Henry Moore's pieces have been installed in a scattered fashion around Kew Gardens, giving fans the opportunity to view each work from various... View details »
Moore at Kew
Performing Arts: Theatre
La Cage aux Folles
Tuesday 26 Feb (8pm) @ Menier Chocolate Factory More times »
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of the French-play-turned-film-turned-Hollywood-remake (The Birdcage,... View details »
La Cage aux Folles
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Sleeping & Dreaming
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Wellcome Collection More times »
Free
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces, the central gallery is... View details »
Sleeping & Dreaming
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Hibiscus
Tuesday 26 Feb (noon–2:30 & 6:30–10pm) @ Hibiscus More times »
In just a month, chef-proprietor Claude Bosi has taken London's restaurant world by storm. With the relocation of his two Michelin stars from Ludlow to... View details »
Hibiscus
Performing Arts: Theatre
Dealer's Choice
Tuesday 26 Feb (7:30pm) @ Trafalgar Studios More times »
Patrick Marber's hilarious Dealer's Choice returns to the West End for the first time since the play's premiere in 1995, when it was voted Evening... View details »
Dealer's Choice
Art
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Timothy Taylor Gallery More times »
Free
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960 is a rare opportunity to view early works from the celebrated American pop artist, made before his graduation from the... View details »
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960
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Jean Prouvé
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–5:45pm) @ Design Museum More times »
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing to think it's taken... View details »
Jean Prouvé
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Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
Tuesday 26 Feb (9am–2pm) @ Wimbledon Village Stables More times »
For city-bound equestrians missing their early-morning ride and novice ponyphiles alike, Wimbledon has more to offer than Wombles. Even if you have a penchant for... View details »
Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
Art
John Copnall
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–6pm) @ Mark Barrow Fine Art More times »
Free
In memory of John Copnall's passing in June of last year, Mark Barrow Fine Art displays a chronology of the noted painter's finest works on... View details »
John Copnall
Performing Arts
Afrika! Afrika!
Tuesday 26 Feb @ O2 Arena More times »
If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London debut of Afrika! Afrika!.... View details »
Afrika! Afrika!
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Café on the Hill
Tuesday 26 Feb (8am–10pm) @ Cafe on the Hill More times »
With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like a less pretentious Hampstead,... View details »
Café on the Hill
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Furnace
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–3pm & 6–11pm) @ Furnace More times »
Tucked down a side street off Hoxton Square is the perfect remedy to the seasonal poultry overload. Shoreditch's best-kept secret, Furnace has been in the... View details »
Furnace
Film
Cornelia Parker
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Whitechapel Art Gallery More times »
Free
Notorious artist Cornelia Parker likes to experiment with media. Previous materials have included dust from the Whispering Gallery at St Paul's Cathedral,... View details »
Cornelia Parker
Art: Photography
Alexander Rodchenko
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery More times »
Giveaway
In Revolution in Photography, the Hayward celebrates Russian photographer Alexander Rodchenko's trail-blazing versatility. Featuring more than 120 original prints and photomontages, the exhibition traces Rodchenko's... View details »
Alexander Rodchenko
Art: Photography
Peacocks & Pinstripes
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–5pm) @ Fashion and Textile Museum More times »
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine fashion. The collection looks... View details »
Peacocks & Pinstripes
Art
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Hayward Gallery More times »
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps into the notoriously stiff-backed... View details »
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Film
Derek Jarman
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Serpentine Gallery More times »
Free
Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman, who died of an... View details »
Derek Jarman
Film: Shorts
Apoohcalypse Now
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery More times »
Free
Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's new film offers a... View details »
Apoohcalypse Now
Art: Photography
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–6pm) @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
Free
The quality of the annual Deutsche Börse photography competition just gets better every year. Though this year's winner won't be announced until March, the Photographers'... View details »
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Art: Photography
Larry Clark
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Simon Lee Gallery More times »
Free
Shock-and-awe cult director Larry Clark brings his quasi-fetishistic portraiture of decrepit urban youth to the grim streets of Mayfair. Los Angeles 2003 - 2006 follows... View details »
Larry Clark
Art
Elizabethan Flagons
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–5:30pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
Free
The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad. Stroll down memory lane... View details »
Elizabethan Flagons
Art
Christian Möller
Tuesday 26 Feb (noon–6pm) @ Vegas Gallery More times »
Free
Berlin-based artist and Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts graduate Christian Möller presents a solo exhibition of his most recent efforts at Vegas Gallery. The series... View details »
Christian Möller
Art
Alfredo Jaar
Tuesday 26 Feb (noon–6pm) @ South London Gallery More times »
Free
Fresh from the African Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar arrives at the South London Gallery. Politics of the... View details »
Alfredo Jaar
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Vertical Hour
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Royal Court Theatre More times »
Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war, David Hare's The Vertical Hour tells the story of Nadia Blye, an American ex-war reporter who has... View details »
The Vertical Hour
Performing Arts: Theatre
Happy Now?
Tuesday 26 Feb @ National Theatre More times »
Lucinda Coxon's new play for the National Theatre explores that subject of eternal relevance and importance: self-fulfilment. Directed by Thea Sharrock, this raw yet comic... View details »
Happy Now?
Film: Documentary
Our Daily Bread
Tuesday 26 Feb @ ICA More times »
Nikolaus Geyrhalter's latest documentary provides a relentless, exposé of the industrialized meat industry. Our Daily Bread offers brutal vignettes of the numerous processes that reduce... View details »
Our Daily Bread
Art
Yayoi Kusama
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Victoria Miro Gallery More times »
Free
The Victoria Miro presents the second of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's two-part tour de force. Spanning two buildings, Kusama's unique universe features her trademark use... View details »
Yayoi Kusama
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Aspects of Noël Coward
Tuesday 26 Feb @ National Theatre More times »
Free
Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history". Coward may... View details »
Aspects of Noël Coward
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1001 Inventions
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–5pm) @ Croydon Clocktower More times »
Free
Croydon isn't exactly top-of-mind when it comes to visiting museums, but this free exhibition at the town's exhibition gallery aims to challenge that. With a... View details »
1001 Inventions
Art: Photography
Jazz in London
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
Free
Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in the music business during... View details »
Jazz in London
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London Word Festival
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Various locations More times »
Giveaway
London logophiles head east for this celebration of all things lingual, from blogging to books, poetry to plays and comedy to cabaret. The London Word... View details »
London Word Festival
Art
The Camden Town Group
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Tate Britain More times »
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the borough during the early... View details »
The Camden Town Group
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Homecoming
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Almeida Theatre More times »
The Homecoming, a '60s classic by Harold Pinter, tells the story of an ex-pat and his wife who return to working-class north London from a... View details »
The Homecoming
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
Tuesday 26 Feb (7:30pm) @ Old Vic Theatre More times »
Who better to play David Mamet's two slick, fast-talking Hollywood film producers than two slick, fast-talking Hollywood actors? The Old Vic delivers the dream team... View details »
Speed-the-Plow
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Prayer for My Daughter
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Young Vic More times »
Stemming from Thomas Babe's gritty narrative of social unrest, A Prayer for My Daughter takes place in the turmoil of post-Vietnam America. Pitting authority against... View details »
A Prayer for My Daughter
Art: Photography
Joss McKinley
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–7pm) @ Golden Lane Estate More times »
Free
Joss McKinley's solo exhibition The Moonlight Rooms promises spine-chilling doom and gloom. The ethereal mixed-media presentation focuses on a series of photographs taken in the... View details »
Joss McKinley
Art
Crystal Vision
Tuesday 26 Feb (11–1am) @ Dream Bags / Jaguar Shoes More times »
Free
Mystic south London septet Crystal Vision have adorned a trendsetting former clothing emporium with their fantastical and wonderful creations. Although classed as a collective, the... View details »
Crystal Vision
Art: Photography
Carnaby Kiss Exhibition
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–6pm) @ Carnaby Gallery More times »
Free
If public displays of affection don't make you cringe, then head to bustling Carnaby Street, where fashion photographer and Central Saint Martins graduate Gregg Stone... View details »
Carnaby Kiss Exhibition
Art
Shelley Cassidy
Tuesday 26 Feb (10:30am–6pm) @ Fairfax Gallery More times »
Free
Shelley Cassidy originally developed her style through large-scale mural commissions across the Los Angeles area. Since switching from acrylics to oils, her work has become... View details »
Shelley Cassidy
Film: Documentary
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Tuesday 26 Feb @ ICA More times »
Giveaway
Photographer Annie Leibovitz's best-known images — a nude John Lennon clutching at Yoko Ono, a radiantly pregnant Demi Moore — have become visual icons in... View details »
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Art
Annie Ralli
Tuesday 26 Feb (9:30am–6:30pm) @ The Colomb Art Gallery More times »
Free
After a few ales, recalling a night out can sometimes be tricky. Lucky, then, that we have the visual evidence of former BBC scenic-artist-turned-painter Annie... View details »
Annie Ralli
Art: Photography
Vanity Fair Portraits
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for its instantly classic cover... View details »
Vanity Fair Portraits
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China in London
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Various locations More times »
It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with the XXIX Olympiad in... View details »
China in London
Art: Photography
AOP New Members Exhibition
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Association of Photographers Gallery More times »
Free
For 40 years, the Association of Photographers has been looking after the best interests of snappers across the globe. New members join the exclusive club... View details »
AOP New Members Exhibition
Performing Arts: Dance
Connect '08
Tuesday 26 Feb @ The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells More times »
Spot the next Darcey Bussell at Sadler's Wells' annual festival, which showcases the talents within the theatre's education programme. This is no amateur production —... View details »
Connect '08
Art
The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–5:50pm) @ Tate Britain More times »
Free
After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent by storm. At a... View details »
The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
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Parkour
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Westminster Academy More times »
Release your urban primate with parkour, the sport that catapults folks around London using vaults, leaps and climbs. The beginner's class breaks you in gently... View details »
Parkour
Film
Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Various locations More times »
This festival showcases the best in women's cinema, from Morocco to Iran, offering a unique look at female filmmakers in the Muslim world. The darkly... View details »
Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran
Art
The Island
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–6pm) @ TAG Fine Arts More times »
Free
You could say that Stephen Walter — famous for his Similands maps of Britain — is a cartographer. And yet, these maps are nothing like... View details »
The Island
Art
Simon Keenleyside
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–6pm) @ Rokeby More times »
Free
For his second solo exhibition at Rokeby, Simon Keenleyside explores the conceptual boundaries of landscapes by examinging the locales around his Essex home. Although many... View details »
Simon Keenleyside
Art
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively — exhibited together. The... View details »
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Art
Ten Years Innit!
Tuesday 26 Feb (11am–6pm) @ Barrett Marsden Gallery More times »
Free
Ten Years Innit! celebrates a decade of artistic applicability. The exhibition pulls together new work from each of Barrett Marsden's resident artists, as well as... View details »
Ten Years Innit!
Art
Borders and Identities
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–5pm) @ The Stephen Lawrence Gallery at University of Greenwich More times »
Free
Borders and Identities explores the consequences of the lines drawn in geo-political sands. Palestinian-born Sharif Waked's short film Chic Point hauntingly juxtaposes footage of scantily... View details »
Borders and Identities
Performing Arts: Theatre
I'll Be the Devil
Tuesday 26 Feb @ The Tricycle Theatre More times »
Giveaway
The Royal Shakespeare Company descends upon Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre for the premiere of I'll Be the Devil. Written as a a response to The Tempest,... View details »
I'll Be the Devil
Art
Made by Slaves for Free People
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery More times »
Free
Pablo San-José and Cynthia Viera (aka PSJM) are outspoken critics of global capitalism. The dissident duo — who were previously forced to withdraw their exhibition... View details »
Made by Slaves for Free People
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The Regent
Tuesday 26 Feb (12:30–11pm) @ The Regent More times »
If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub 'n boozer. Since its... View details »
The Regent
Art
Listening Post
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–6pm) @ The Science Museum More times »
Free
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the Science Museum. Asking "What... View details »
Listening Post
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Pollock's Toy Museum
Tuesday 26 Feb (10am–5pm) @ Pollock's Toy Museum More times »
Evoke dusty memories of bygone days with a visit to Pollock's Toy Museum, nestled in the heart of Fitzrovia. Comprised of two conjoined 18th- and... View details »
Pollock's Toy Museum
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Wrapping Japan
Tuesday 26 Feb (10:30am–5:30pm) @ The Horniman Museum More times »
Free
Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an art of wrapping everything,... View details »
Wrapping Japan
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Haozhan
Tuesday 26 Feb (noon–11:30pm) @ Haozhan More times »
Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey to find decent food,... View details »
Haozhan
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Fox & Anchor
Tuesday 26 Feb (7am–11pm) @ Fox & Anchor More times »
Dating from the late Victorian era, this pub — an old favourite of blood-spattered meat traders from Smithfields Market down the street — has just... View details »
Fox & Anchor
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Salt Yard
Tuesday 26 Feb (noon–11pm) @ Salt Yard More times »
It's not easy to garner favourable comparisons to London tapas giants Fino and Barrafina, but the diminutive Salt Yard pulls off this Goliath-sized task. The... View details »
Salt Yard
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Aaya
Tuesday 26 Feb (noon–midnight) @ Aaya More times »
Though Aaya has been open for a few months, it's still biding its time; rather than go for a press blitz, the restaurant wants to... View details »
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Brunello Picnic in Kensington Gardens
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Brunello More times »
If carrying equipment and provisions on public transport seems like too much perspiration for a weekend's picnic, then the Brunello restaurant's new selection of hampers... View details »
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London Fencing Club
Tuesday 26 Feb @ Finsbury Leisure Centre More times »
If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that," now you can prove... View details »
London Fencing Club
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Cha Cha Moon
Tuesday 26 Feb (noon–11pm) @ Cha Cha Moon More times »
Influential restaurateur Alan Yau is back with Cha Cha Moon, returning to cuisine with widespread appeal (he devised Wagamama and Busaba Eathai) at this Malay-Chinese... View details »
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Quo Vadis
Tuesday 26 Feb (noon–2:45 & 5–10:45pm) @ Quo Vadis More times »
Sam and Eddie Hart cemented their restaurant reputation by reinventing tapas for a sophisticated London clientele at Fino, then tailoring them for a drop-by crowd... View details »
Quo Vadis