Events on Tuesday, February 26

Fanfarlo w/ Sleeping States
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Music: Rock/Pop
Fanfarlo
@ The Luminaire
Hailing from London but channeling Scandinavian melancholy, Fanfarlo deliver their morose vocals with a wild abandon matched by few bands. The...  View details »
[SOLD OUT] Islands
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Islands
@ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
Montreal's Islands had already collaborated with Beck, Wolf Parade and Arcade Fire when they released their debut LP, Return to the...  View details »
Sold Out!
Hermione Cameron: <em>Notting Hill Behind the Scenes</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: Lecture
Notting Hill Behind the Scenes
@ 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...  View details »
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: Discussion
Who Needs Copyright?
@ The Wheatsheaf
The premise behind Big Ideas is relatively simple: pose a question, promote a debate. The sporadically arranged series — held in...  View details »
Free
Holy Cow feat. Team Waterpolo w/ the Laurel Collective
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Music: Rock/Pop
Holy Cow
@ The Social
Emily Eavis' Holy Cow showcase may be a downsize from her gargantuan Glasto post, but the club night of unsigned London...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>Borders and Identities</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Borders and Identities
@ The Stephen Lawrence Gallery at University of Greenwich
Borders and Identities explores the consequences of the lines drawn in geo-political sands. Palestinian-born Sharif Waked's short film Chic Point hauntingly...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
@ The Old Vic
Who better to play David Mamet's two slick, fast-talking Hollywood film producers than two slick, fast-talking Hollywood actors? The Old Vic...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Wrapping Japan</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: Exhibition
Wrapping Japan
@ The Horniman Museum
Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Afrika! Afrika!</i>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Performing Arts
Afrika! Afrika!
@ O2 Arena
If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Moore at Kew</i>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Moore at Kew
@ Royal Botanic Gardens
Twenty-eight of Henry Moore's pieces have been installed in a scattered fashion around Kew Gardens, giving fans the opportunity to view...  View details »
Ongoing
Christian M&ouml;ller
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Christian Möller
@ Vegas Gallery
Berlin-based artist and Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts graduate Christian Möller presents a solo exhibition of his most recent efforts at...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cornelia Parker: <em>Chomskian Abstract</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Cornelia Parker
@ Whitechapel Art Gallery
Notorious artist Cornelia Parker likes to experiment with media. Previous materials have included dust from the Whispering Gallery at View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Happy Now?</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Performing Arts: Theatre
Happy Now?
@ National Theatre
Lucinda Coxon's new play for the National Theatre explores that subject of eternal relevance and importance: self-fulfilment. Directed by Thea Sharrock,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Apoohcalypse Now</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Film: Shorts
Apoohcalypse Now
@ Hayward Gallery
Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
London Word Festival
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
More Flavor: Festival
London Word Festival
@ Various locations
London logophiles head east for this celebration of all things lingual, from blogging to books, poetry to plays and comedy to...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Peacocks &amp; Pinstripes</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
Peacocks & Pinstripes
@ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...  View details »
Ongoing
Yayoi Kusama
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Yayoi Kusama
@ Victoria Miro Gallery
The Victoria Miro presents the second of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's two-part tour de force. Spanning two buildings, Kusama's unique universe...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens</em> (2006)<em> </em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Film: Documentary
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
@ ICA
Photographer Annie Leibovitz's best-known images — a nude John Lennon clutching at Yoko Ono, a radiantly pregnant Demi Moore — have...  View details »
Ongoing
Joss McKinley: <em>The Moonlight Rooms</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
Joss McKinley
@ Golden Lane Estate
Joss McKinley's solo exhibition The Moonlight Rooms promises spine-chilling doom and gloom. The ethereal mixed-media presentation focuses on a series of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Stephen Walter:<em> The Island: London Series</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
The Island
@ TAG Fine Arts
You could say that Stephen Walter — famous for his Similands maps of Britain — is a cartographer. And yet, these...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
Vanity Fair Portraits
@ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...  View details »
Ongoing
Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Film
Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran
@ Various locations
This festival showcases the best in women's cinema, from Morocco to Iran, offering a unique look at female filmmakers in the...  View details »
Ongoing
Shelley Cassidy: <em>Twenty American Faces &amp; Virginia Woolf</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Shelley Cassidy
@ Fairfax Gallery
Shelley Cassidy originally developed her style through large-scale mural commissions across the Los Angeles area. Since switching from acrylics to oils,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sleeping & Dreaming
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
More Flavor: Exhibition
Sleeping & Dreaming
@ Wellcome Collection
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
@ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Dealer's Choice</I>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Performing Arts: Theatre
Dealer's Choice
@ Trafalgar Studios
Patrick Marber's hilarious Dealer's Choice returns to the West End for the first time since the play's premiere in 1995, when...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Listening Post</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Listening Post
@ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Haozhan
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: City Gem
Haozhan
@ Haozhan
Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey...  View details »
Ongoing
Jean Prouvé
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: Exhibition
Jean Prouvé
@ Design Museum
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Vertical Hour</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Vertical Hour
@ Royal Court Theatre
Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war, David Hare's The Vertical Hour tells the story of Nadia Blye, an American...  View details »
Ongoing
Derek Jarman
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Film
Derek Jarman
@ Serpentine Gallery
Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Star Quality: Aspects of No&euml;l Coward</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
More Flavor: Exhibition
Aspects of Noël Coward
@ National Theatre
Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Café on the Hill
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: City Gem
Café on the Hill
@ Cafe on the Hill
With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like...  View details »
Ongoing
John Copnall: <i>Space and Colour</i>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
John Copnall
@ Mark Barrow Fine Art
In memory of John Copnall's passing in June of last year, Mark Barrow Fine Art displays a chronology of the noted...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Elizabethan Flagons
@ Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Prayer for My Daughter</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Prayer for My Daughter
@ Young Vic
Stemming from Thomas Babe's gritty narrative of social unrest, A Prayer for My Daughter takes place in the turmoil of post-Vietnam...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in our World</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: Exhibition
1001 Inventions
@ Croydon Clocktower
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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Carnaby Kiss Exhibition</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
Carnaby Kiss Exhibition
@ Carnaby Gallery
If public displays of affection don't make you cringe, then head to bustling Carnaby Street, where fashion photographer and Central Saint...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Camden Town Group</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
The Camden Town Group
@ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...  View details »
Ongoing
Connect '08
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Performing Arts: Dance
Connect '08
@ The Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
Spot the next Darcey Bussell at Sadler's Wells' annual festival, which showcases the talents within the theatre's education programme. This is...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Ten Years Innit!</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Ten Years Innit!
@ Barrett Marsden Gallery
Ten Years Innit! celebrates a decade of artistic applicability. The exhibition pulls together new work from each of Barrett Marsden's resident...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
London Fencing Club
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
More Flavor: Sports
London Fencing Club
@ Finsbury Leisure Centre
If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that,"...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha </em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
@ Tate Britain
After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>La Cage aux Folles</i>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Performing Arts: Theatre
La Cage aux Folles
@ Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of...  View details »
Ongoing
PSJM: <em>Made by Slaves for Free People </em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Made by Slaves for Free People
@ Riflemaker Gallery
Pablo San-José and Cynthia Viera (aka PSJM) are outspoken critics of global capitalism. The dissident duo — who were previously forced...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Regent
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
More Flavor: City Gem
The Regent
@ The Regent
If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960</i>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960
@ Timothy Taylor Gallery
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960 is a rare opportunity to view early works from the celebrated American pop artist, made before...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Laughing in a Foreign Language</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Art
Laughing in a Foreign Language
@ Hayward Gallery
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps...  View details »
Ongoing
Annie Ralli
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Annie Ralli
@ The Colomb Art Gallery
After a few ales, recalling a night out can sometimes be tricky. Lucky, then, that we have the visual evidence of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alfredo Jaar: <em>Politics of the Image</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Alfredo Jaar
@ South London Gallery
Fresh from the African Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar arrives at the South London...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alexander Rodchenko: <em>Revolution in Photography</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
Alexander Rodchenko
@ Hayward Gallery
In Revolution in Photography, the Hayward celebrates Russian photographer Alexander Rodchenko's trail-blazing versatility. Featuring more than 120 original prints and photomontages,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Our Daily Bread </em>(2006)
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Film: Documentary
Our Daily Bread
@ ICA
Nikolaus Geyrhalter's latest documentary provides a relentless, exposé of the industrialized meat industry. Our Daily Bread offers brutal vignettes of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Larry Clark: <em>Los Angeles 2003 - 2006</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
Larry Clark
@ Simon Lee Gallery
Shock-and-awe cult director Larry Clark brings his quasi-fetishistic portraiture of decrepit urban youth to the grim streets of Mayfair. Los Angeles...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Homecoming</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Homecoming
@ Almeida Theatre
The Homecoming, a '60s classic by Harold Pinter, tells the story of an ex-pat and his wife who return to working-class...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Deutsche B</em>&ouml;<em>rse Photography Prize</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
@ The Photographers' Gallery
The quality of the annual Deutsche Börse photography competition just gets better every year. Though this year's winner won't be announced...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Walter Hanlon: <em>Jazz in London</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
Jazz in London
@ National Portrait Gallery
Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
China in London
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
More Flavor: Festival
China in London
@ Various locations
It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with...  View details »
Ongoing
Crystal Vision:<em> The Unspoken Dreams of Light</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Crystal Vision
@ Dream Bags / Jaguar Shoes
Mystic south London septet Crystal Vision have adorned a trendsetting former clothing emporium with their fantastical and wonderful creations. Although classed...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Simon Keenleyside
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art
Simon Keenleyside
@ Rokeby
For his second solo exhibition at Rokeby, Simon Keenleyside explores the conceptual boundaries of landscapes by examinging the locales around his...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Portfolio: </em><em>AOP New Members Exhibition</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_26
Art: Photography
AOP New Members Exhibition
@ Association of Photographers Gallery
For 40 years, the Association of Photographers has been looking after the best interests of snappers across the globe. New members...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Royal Shakespeare Company:<em> I'll Be the Devil</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_27
Performing Arts: Theatre
I'll Be the Devil
@ The Tricycle Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company descends upon Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre for the premiere of I'll Be the Devil. Written as a a...  View details »
Ongoing