Events on Wednesday, February 6
Wednesday 6/2 @ Nettie Horn
The Clearing explores notions of internal and external space, with images ranging from the serene to the strangely disturbing. Joe Biel...
The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
Wednesday 6/2 @ Tate Britain
After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Various locations
It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 54 The Gallery
Clementina Raynsford uses the drawing skills she honed at Charles Cecil Studios in Florence to capture elements of her travels around...
Wednesday 6/2 @ O2 Arena
If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Haunch of Venison
An exhibition depicting suicide may not be an obvious stop-off if you're in a positive New Year state of mind. However,...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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,...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Max Wigram Gallery
Czech-born Pavel Büchler has spent many years investigating the theories and concepts behind art. As Research Professor of Art & Design...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Kensington Palace State Apartments
Although he may not be as much of a household name, Shakespeare's contemporary Christopher Marlowe remains one of England's most exciting...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Vegas Gallery
Beg, borrow and/or steal appears to be the premise for Vegas Gallery's forthcoming exhibition, Loose Booty, which sees artists from Geneva...
Gillray's Legacy: A Contemporary Perspective
Wednesday 6/2 @ The Political Cartoon Gallery
Georgian caricaturist James Gillray, considered the pre-eminent early political cartoonist, was a thorn in the side of power brokers like Napoleon,...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ National Theatre
Responding to the emergence of new media and interactive art installations, the RIBA London and Arts Council England recruited young architects...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Timothy Taylor Gallery
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960 is a rare opportunity to view early works from the celebrated American pop artist, made before...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Guanabara
Drury Lane's Guanabara club brings the thrill of Brazilian carnival to London, and the celebrations get more extravagant every year. For...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Barbican
The latest Fabulous Beast production, James, Son of James, centers around a prodigal son who returns to rural Britain to mourn...
Wednesday 6/2 @ White Cube
2005 Turner Prize nominee Darren Almond graces the stark Hoxton White Cube with his projects from Tibet and the British Isles....
Wednesday 6/2 @ Hackney Empire
London's weirdest and most entertaining variety show, the 291 Show, returns to the Hackney Empire for a special winter mini-season. The...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Red Gate Gallery
Red Gate Gallery's An Act of Happening examines the artistic process through student work from the Camberwell College of Art. The...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ The Place
Resolution! is an annual showcase that highlights contemporary dancers and choreographers with a programme of rotating talent. Every night features a...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Fairfax Gallery
Shelley Cassidy originally developed her style through large-scale mural commissions across the Los Angeles area. Since switching from acrylics to oils,...
Wednesday 6/2 @ The Miller
Write Side of the Brain is an opportunity for an artistic binge. The event includes six readings from new talent fresh...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Hayward Gallery
Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Finborough Theatre
Howard Brenton's Weapons of Happiness was the first play to be performed at the Lyttleton in the politically turbulent '70s, causing...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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....
Wednesday 6/2 @ National Theatre
Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Forster Gallery
Andrew McAttee's paintings glow with Technicolor positivity. After stints as a builder and street artist, McAttee sought out classical training, but...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
The Directorspective: Luis Buñuel
Wednesday 6/2 @ Barbican
Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí's former schoolmate and collaborator, is heralded as the father of surrealist film. Though his early years were...
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring
Wednesday 6/2 @ Camden Arts Centre
Artist Steven Claydon curates this incredibly long-monikered exhibition exploring the relationship between artworks and art spaces. Though Claydon's own art is...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Tricycle Theatre
Kwame Kwei-Armah is a rare creature. A hospital-drama actor turned playwright, he was nominated for an Olivier Award and was also...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Photofusion Photography Centre
German photographer Kathrin Kur documents the real-life backdrops used to make television and movie magic. A shot of the deserted Tomb...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Renoir Cinema
In tandem with the British Library's exhibition, Curzon tracks the rise of Europe's avant-garde film movements. F.W. Murnau's masterpiece, Nosferatu (1922),...
Rock and British Musical Culture
Wednesday 6/2 @ British Library
In a series of ten lectures, the University of Edinburgh's Professor Simon Frith — a former rock critic and author of...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Wellcome Collection
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,...
The Little Theatre of Disease and Desire
Wednesday 6/2 @ Old Operating Theatre
Artist Daniel Baker creates scenarios from a play about a disease, The Simbysial Case, taking inspiration from the paper theatres popular...
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Wednesday 6/2 @ Hayward Gallery
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps...
Wednesday 6/2 @ Design Museum
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing...
Helter Skelter and Land of the Dead
Wednesday 6/2 @ The Bush Theatre
For this production, still less than a year into Josie Rourke's tenure as Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, she turns...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ 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...
Wednesday 6/2 @ ICA
Nikolaus Geyrhalter's latest documentary provides a relentless, exposé of the industrialized meat industry. Our Daily Bread offers brutal vignettes of the...
