Events on Saturday, March 1
Saturday 1/3 @ The Big Chill House
The Big Chill House hosts a rare UK appearance from Germany's Gerd Janson tonight. The prolific DJ and journalist is abroad...
Saturday 1/3 @ seOne
Sixteen of the world's best electronic labels and promoters in one club should be enough for solid Saturday-night wig-out. Israel's progressive-trance...
Saturday 1/3 @ 333 Mother Bar
Over the last 20 years, the concept of "fun" has largely deserted the club scene, resulting in half-empty dance floors and...
Ongoing Events
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Images of Black Women Film Festival
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Fairfax Gallery
Shelley Cassidy originally developed her style through large-scale mural commissions across the Los Angeles area. Since switching from acrylics to oils,...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Seventeen Gallery
Werner Herzog once bet Errol Morris that he would eat his own shoe if his then-unknown protégé ever completed his first...
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Saturday 1/3 @ Hayward Gallery
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps...
Saturday 1/3 @ Rod Barton Invites
Renegade curator and gallery director Roderick Barton presents a triumvirate of emerging artists for this group show, which investigates the relationship...
Saturday 1/3 @ Serpentine Gallery
Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman,...
Saturday 1/3 @ Various locations
London logophiles head east for this celebration of all things lingual, from blogging to books, poetry to plays and comedy to...
Saturday 1/3 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Saturday 1/3 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran
Saturday 1/3 @ Various locations
This festival showcases the best in women's cinema, from Morocco to Iran, offering a unique look at female filmmakers in the...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Made by Slaves for Free People
Saturday 1/3 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Pablo San-José and Cynthia Viera (aka PSJM) are outspoken critics of global capitalism. The dissident duo — who were previously forced...
Saturday 1/3 @ Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of...
Saturday 1/3 @ Rokeby
For his second solo exhibition at Rokeby, Simon Keenleyside explores the conceptual boundaries of landscapes by examinging the locales around his...
Saturday 1/3 @ Greenwich foot tunnel
For Occupy My Time's new monthly series, the art collective places artworks in the cupboards within the Greenwich foot-tunnel lifts. The...
Saturday 1/3 @ Vegas Gallery
Berlin-based artist and Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts graduate Christian Möller presents a solo exhibition of his most recent efforts at...
Saturday 1/3 @ Design Museum
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Carter Presents
Dallas Seitz's bizarre selections of creepy memorabilia comment on personal and collective identity. In Georgette Magritte and the Exotic Sea, the...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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....
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
Saturday 1/3 @ Tate Britain
After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Carnaby Gallery
If public displays of affection don't make you cringe, then head to bustling Carnaby Street, where fashion photographer and Central Saint...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ O2 Arena
If the stylized theatrics of the Cirque du Soleil productions left you a bit unsatisfied, best head over to the London...
Saturday 1/3 @ Strychnin Gallery
Proverbial myth and sinister mayhem collide at Strychnin Gallery, courtesy of French visual artist Chris von Steiner. Comprising a selection of...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/3 @ National Theatre
Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in...
Takahiro Iwasaki and Penny Klepuszewska
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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;...
Saturday 1/3 @ TAG Fine Arts
You could say that Stephen Walter — famous for his Similands maps of Britain — is a cartographer. And yet, these...
Saturday 1/3 @ Timothy Taylor Gallery
Andy Warhol 1948 - 1960 is a rare opportunity to view early works from the celebrated American pop artist, made before...
Saturday 1/3 @ Forster Gallery
Andrew McAttee's paintings glow with Technicolor positivity. After stints as a builder and street artist, McAttee sought out classical training, but...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Various locations
International Women's Week descends upon London once again, celebrating the achievements of the — let's face it — fairer sex. The...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Hayward Gallery
Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Olympia
Inspect and acquire "investments of the future" (i.e., pieces of original art) at FORM London, held at Olympia National Hall. FORM...
Saturday 1/3 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Saturday 1/3 @ ICA
Daffodils at the ready. Tomorrow's Gruff Rhys-hosted shindig and screening is sold out, but there are plenty of other ways to...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Wellcome Collection
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
Notorious artist Cornelia Parker likes to experiment with media. Previous materials have included dust from the Whispering Gallery at
Saturday 1/3 @ 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,...
Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ 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...
Saturday 1/3 @ Various locations
It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with...







































































