Events on Friday, February 29
Friday 29/2 @ Various locations
As with his 2005 tragicomedy The Squid and the Whale, director Noah Baumbach focuses on a dysfunctional intellectual family for this...
Friday 29/2 @ HMV Forum
Thanks to an intellectual property dispute with violinist Owen Pallett, a Vienna-based public works company foots the bill for the Maximum...
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Friday 29/2 @ Goethe Institute
It isn't a Deutsch dating night — unless you have a prurient interest in Gunter Grass, JW Goethe or Thomas Mann....
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Friday 29/2 @ O2 Academy Brixton
The Game Boy-obsessed Hot Chip are determined to take over the world with their whimsical geek-pop, as they rise to fame...
Friday 29/2 @ Curzon Soho
To beat the nightly pub migration, Curzon offers a midnight series of rare underground cinema, washed down with a cold bottle...
The Young Offenders' Institute
Friday 29/2 @ [DELETE] The Fleapit
Running like a fool around the table, sweating and swearing as you completely miss your shot — there's no better way...
Friday 29/2 @ Greenwich Dance Agency
Despite their sleepy surrounds, the Greenwich Dance Agency are an active bunch, keen on engaging the local community. As part of...
Ongoing Events
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
Friday 29/2 @ Tate Britain
After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent...
Images of Black Women Film Festival
Friday 29/2 @ The Tricycle Theatre
The annual Images of Black Women Film Festival returns to the Tricycle this weekend. Proceedings begin with Kasi Lemmon's Talk to...
Friday 29/2 @ Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of...
Friday 29/2 @ TAG Fine Arts
You could say that Stephen Walter — famous for his Similands maps of Britain — is a cartographer. And yet, these...
Friday 29/2 @ 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 29/2 @ 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...
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Friday 29/2 @ Hayward Gallery
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps...
Friday 29/2 @ Rod Barton Invites
Renegade curator and gallery director Roderick Barton presents a triumvirate of emerging artists for this group show, which investigates the relationship...
Friday 29/2 @ Serpentine Gallery
Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman,...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran
Friday 29/2 @ Various locations
This festival showcases the best in women's cinema, from Morocco to Iran, offering a unique look at female filmmakers in the...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ Royal College of Art
This year's installment of the ceramics fest features over 75 artists. Highlights include Louisa Taylor's beautiful (and practical) stacking tea sets;...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ Vegas Gallery
Berlin-based artist and Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts graduate Christian Möller presents a solo exhibition of his most recent efforts at...
Friday 29/2 @ Design Museum
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing...
Friday 29/2 @ 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,...
Friday 29/2 @ Carter Presents
Dallas Seitz's bizarre selections of creepy memorabilia comment on personal and collective identity. In Georgette Magritte and the Exotic Sea, the...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Friday 29/2 @ ICA
Photographer Annie Leibovitz's best-known images — a nude John Lennon clutching at Yoko Ono, a radiantly pregnant Demi Moore — have...
Friday 29/2 @ Olympia
Inspect and acquire "investments of the future" (i.e., pieces of original art) at FORM London, held at Olympia National Hall. FORM...
Friday 29/2 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ Carnaby Gallery
If public displays of affection don't make you cringe, then head to bustling Carnaby Street, where fashion photographer and Central Saint...
Made by Slaves for Free People
Friday 29/2 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Pablo San-José and Cynthia Viera (aka PSJM) are outspoken critics of global capitalism. The dissident duo — who were previously forced...
Friday 29/2 @ Royal Horticultural Halls
Translating to "water of life" (thanks to the Anglicisation of the sixth-century Irish word uisce beatha), the humble whisky is to...
Friday 29/2 @ Fairfax Gallery
Shelley Cassidy originally developed her style through large-scale mural commissions across the Los Angeles area. Since switching from acrylics to oils,...
Friday 29/2 @ O2 Arena
If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London...
Friday 29/2 @ Strychnin Gallery
Proverbial myth and sinister mayhem collide at Strychnin Gallery, courtesy of French visual artist Chris von Steiner. Comprising a selection of...
Friday 29/2 @ 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,...
Friday 29/2 @ Various locations
London logophiles head east for this celebration of all things lingual, from blogging to books, poetry to plays and comedy to...
Takahiro Iwasaki and Penny Klepuszewska
Friday 29/2 @ Room
ROOM presents two up-and-coming artists who build their own quirky, imaginary worlds. UK-based Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki creates magical, Lilliputian landscapes...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ Rokeby
For his second solo exhibition at Rokeby, Simon Keenleyside explores the conceptual boundaries of landscapes by examinging the locales around his...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ Forster Gallery
Andrew McAttee's paintings glow with Technicolor positivity. After stints as a builder and street artist, McAttee sought out classical training, but...
Friday 29/2 @ Timothy Taylor Gallery
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960 is a rare opportunity to view early works from the celebrated American pop artist, made before...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ The Empire Gallery
Nathan James' Pleasure Island isn't quite the adults-only event that the title may imply. The Canadian native (who currently resides in...
Friday 29/2 @ Hayward Gallery
Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Friday 29/2 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Friday 29/2 @ ICA
Daffodils at the ready. Tomorrow's Gruff Rhys-hosted shindig and screening is sold out, but there are plenty of other ways to...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ The Arts Theatre
Richard Herring's Oh F**k I'm 40 blows through London with a two-night stint at the Arts Theatre. Herring puts life's labors...
Friday 29/2 @ Seventeen Gallery
Werner Herzog once bet Errol Morris that he would eat his own shoe if his then-unknown protégé ever completed his first...
Friday 29/2 @ Wellcome Collection
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,...
Friday 29/2 @ 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...
Friday 29/2 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
Notorious artist Cornelia Parker likes to experiment with media. Previous materials have included dust from the Whispering Gallery at
Friday 29/2 @ National Theatre
Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in...
Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray
Friday 29/2 @ Standpoint Gallery
Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray offer deceptive stylisations of fruit and hot-dog stands (respectively) in their joint sculptural installation, exploring the...
Friday 29/2 @ 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....
Friday 29/2 @ Various locations
It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with...
