Events on Friday, March 14

<em>For Blue</em>

Art

For Blue

Friday 14/3 @ Serpentine Gallery

Derek Jarman's final experimental film, Blue (1993), was a single shot of saturated blue. Musician Simon Fisher Turner (who collaborated with... 

Ongoing Events

Simon Keenleyside

Art

Simon Keenleyside

Friday 14/3 @ Rokeby

For his second solo exhibition at Rokeby, Simon Keenleyside explores the conceptual boundaries of landscapes by examinging the locales around his... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Friday 14/3 @ The Science Museum

Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... 

Dodgy Clutch and the Market Theatre present <em>Elephant</em>

Theatre

Elephant

Friday 14/3 @ New Wimbledon Theatre

The Dodgy Clutch theatre company joins Johannesburg's Market Theatre for Elephant, a groundbreaking show that mixes dance, music, puppetry and drama.... 

<em>Gothic</em>

Art

Gothic

Friday 14/3 @ Fieldgate Gallery

Gothic explores the excesses of the imagination through the work of 12 contemporary artists. Matthew Stone, a rising star of London's... 

Affordable Art Fair

Art

Affordable Art Fair

Friday 14/3 @ Battersea Park

If your walls are in need of attention, the Affordable Art Fair is a great place to search for a few... 

Annie Ralli

Art

Annie Ralli

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Dallas Seitz: <em>Georgette Magritte and the Exotic Sea </em>

Art

Dallas Seitz

Friday 14/3 @ Carter Presents

Dallas Seitz's bizarre selections of creepy memorabilia comment on personal and collective identity. In Georgette Magritte and the Exotic Sea, the... 

Alexander Rodchenko: <em>Revolution in Photography</em>

Art: Photography

Alexander Rodchenko

Friday 14/3 @ 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,... 

Flamenco Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Flamenco Festival 2008

Friday 14/3 @ Sadler's Wells

For a frankly exhausting display of barnstorming footwork and hot-blooded passion, head to Sadler's Wells for the fifth annual Flamenco Festival.... 

<em>Peacocks &amp; Pinstripes</em>

Art: Photography

Peacocks & Pinstripes

Friday 14/3 @ Fashion and Textile Museum

Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine... 

Walter Hanlon: <em>Jazz in London</em>

Art: Photography

Jazz in London

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>A Prayer for My Daughter</em>

Theatre

A Prayer for My Daughter

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>The Harder They Come</em>

Theatre

The Harder They Come

Friday 14/3 @ Barbican

As you might guess, The Harder They Come is the musical-theatre adaptation of the 1972 cult film starring reggae legend Jimmy... 

Crystal Vision:<em> The Unspoken Dreams of Light</em>

Art

Crystal Vision

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Max Jacquard's <em>Untold Stories</em>

Art

Max Jacquard's Untold Stories

Friday 14/3 @ Zest Gallery

ZeST Contemporary presents Max Jacquard's Untold Stories, a solo exhibition of the glass artist's most recent works. Pillow Piece, the collection's... 

The London Australian Film Festival

Film

The London Australian Film Festival

Friday 14/3 @ Barbican

For an injection of true-blue Aussie films (Crocodile Dundee doesn't count, silly), the Barbican once again hosts the London Australian Film... 

English Touring Opera

Performing Arts: Opera

English Touring Opera

Friday 14/3 @ Hackney Empire

Unlike Verona and Glyndebourne, Hackney isn't usually a must-visit destination on the operaphile's itinerary. However, when the English Touring Opera rolls... 

<em>Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe</em> (1980)

Film

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Friday 14/3 @ Seventeen Gallery

Werner Herzog once bet Errol Morris that he would eat his own shoe if his then-unknown protégé ever completed his first... 

John Keane: <em>Angola</em>

Art

John Keane

Friday 14/3 @ Flowers

Part of the Children in Conflict collection, John Keane's Angola exhibition documents the fraught state of a post-conflict society six years... 

Christian M&ouml;ller

Art

Christian Möller

Friday 14/3 @ Vegas Gallery

Berlin-based artist and Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts graduate Christian Möller presents a solo exhibition of his most recent efforts at... 

<em>Wrapping Japan</em>

Special Event

Wrapping Japan

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Amin Taha Architects

Art

Amin Taha Architects

Friday 14/3 @ Dreamspace Gallery

Exterior-design up-and-comers Amin Taha Architects showcase their innovative work at dreamspace gallery. Their debut solo exhibition features recently completed projects, maquettes... 

Takahiro Iwasaki and Penny Klepuszewska: <em>I Wouldn't Like to Live in the Open Air But Sometimes I Would</em>

Art

Takahiro Iwasaki and Penny Klepuszewska

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Larry Clark: <em>Los Angeles 2003 - 2006</em>

Art: Photography

Larry Clark

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>Happy Now?</em>

Theatre

Happy Now?

Friday 14/3 @ 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,... 

<em>Deutsche B</em>&ouml;<em>rse Photography Prize</em>

Art: Photography

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008</em>

Art: Photography

Vanity Fair Portraits

Friday 14/3 @ National Portrait Gallery

Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for... 

Connect '08

Dance

Connect '08

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>Snowbound</em>

Theatre

Snowbound

Friday 14/3 @ Trafalgar Studios

Snowbound finds two orphaned brothers having their roles reversed: when older brother and businessman Tom loses his wife, the younger Alex... 

<em>The ALI Folio</em>

Art: Photography

The ALI Folio

Friday 14/3 @ Proud Central

Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of... 

PSJM: <em>Made by Slaves for Free People </em>

Art

Made by Slaves for Free People

Friday 14/3 @ Riflemaker Gallery

Pablo San-José and Cynthia Viera (aka PSJM) are outspoken critics of global capitalism. The dissident duo — who were previously forced... 

Celebrating the Cinema of Mikl&oacute;s Jancs&oacute;

Film

Miklós Jancsó

Friday 14/3 @ Various locations

With Miklós Jancsó himself present at two screenings, this retrospective pays fitting tribute to the iconic Hungarian director. The programme opens... 

Tobias Till: <em>As the Crow Flies</em>

Art

Tobias Till

Friday 14/3 @ gallery12

Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal... 

<em>Monologue/Dialogue Part II</em>

Art

Monologue/Dialogue Part II

Friday 14/3 @ Bischoff/Weiss

Monologue/Dialogue II's artists use sculpture, painting and installation to convey their own vision of Bangkok. Nathaniel Rackowe's urban, fluorescent installations are... 

<i>Moore at Kew</i>

Art

Moore at Kew

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Chris von Steiner: <em>The Snow King</em>

Art

Chris von Steiner

Friday 14/3 @ Strychnin Gallery

Proverbial myth and sinister mayhem collide at Strychnin Gallery, courtesy of French visual artist Chris von Steiner. Comprising a selection of... 

Cornelia Parker: <em>Chomskian Abstract</em>

Film

Cornelia Parker

Friday 14/3 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery

Notorious artist Cornelia Parker likes to experiment with media. Previous materials have included dust from the Whispering Gallery at

Sleeping & Dreaming

Special Event

Sleeping & Dreaming

Friday 14/3 @ Wellcome Collection

Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,... 

<em>Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation</em>

Art

Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation

Friday 14/3 @ The Wapping Project

For the first installment of the Jerwood: Found in Translation series, Polish filmmaker Marta Michalowska presents four films that encapsulate the... 

Yayoi Kusama

Art

Yayoi Kusama

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>The Living Unknown Soldier</em>

Theatre

The Living Unknown Soldier

Friday 14/3 @ Arcola Theatre

The Arcola Theatre's production of the tragicomic The Living Unknown Soldier creates an interesting link between the past and the future.... 

<em>The Homecoming</em>

Theatre

The Homecoming

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Joss McKinley: <em>The Moonlight Rooms</em>

Art: Photography

Joss McKinley

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia</em>

Art

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

Friday 14/3 @ Tate Modern

It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively... 

<em>Into The Hoods</em>

Theatre

Into The Hoods

Friday 14/3 @ The Novello Theatre

ZooNation's revamped Stephen Sondheim musical comes to London after a hit season at the Edinburgh Fringe. This pop-culture quest follows two... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>Ten Years Innit!</em>

Art

Ten Years Innit!

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>PURE_photography</em>

Art: Photography

PURE_photography

Friday 14/3 @ Ferreira Projects

The penultimate slice of the PURE series focuses on photography, comprising five snappers' takes on the meaning of "journey". Two standouts... 

Andrew McAttee: <em>Anti-Gravity</em>

Art

Andrew McAttee

Friday 14/3 @ Forster Gallery

Andrew McAttee's paintings glow with Technicolor positivity. After stints as a builder and street artist, McAttee sought out classical training, but... 

Chris Levine: <em>Lightness of Being</em>

Art

Chris Levine

Friday 14/3 @ StolenSpace Gallery

Chris Levine unveils his collection of royal-family holograms at Old Truman Brewery's StolenSpace. Commissioned by the Jersey Heritage Trust, Levine was... 

<em>Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art</em>

Art

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

Friday 14/3 @ Barbican

In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"... 

Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray: <em>New Work</em>

Art

Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Derek Jarman

Film

Derek Jarman

Friday 14/3 @ Serpentine Gallery

Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman,... 

<em>Laughing in a Foreign Language</em>

Art

Laughing in a Foreign Language

Friday 14/3 @ Hayward Gallery

Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps... 

<em>Electric Blue</em>

Art

Electric Blue

Friday 14/3 @ Oxo Tower Wharf

The intertwining floors of South Bank's atmospheric Bargehouse overflow with multi-sensory experiences for Electric Blue. The mixed-media artworks range from kinetic... 

<em>The Camden Town Group</em>

Art

The Camden Town Group

Friday 14/3 @ Tate Britain

Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the... 

China in London

Festival: Performing Arts

China in London

Friday 14/3 @ Various locations

It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with... 

[SOLD OUT]<em> Mules </em>

Theatre

Mules

Friday 14/3 @ Young Vic

Jerwood Directors Award winner Amy Hodge helms this production of Winsome Pinnock's 1996 play, which follows a group of young women... 

<em>Carnaby Kiss Exhibition</em>

Art: Photography

Carnaby Kiss Exhibition

Friday 14/3 @ Carnaby Gallery

If public displays of affection don't make you cringe, then head to bustling Carnaby Street, where fashion photographer and Central Saint... 

<em>Borders and Identities</em>

Art

Borders and Identities

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>Random</em>

Theatre

Random

Friday 14/3 @ Royal Court Theatre

Debbie Tucker Green writes with striking urgency. Her trademark is rhythmic and forceful language, and not everyone appreciates her confrontational style... 

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Film: Documentary

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Friday 14/3 @ Various locations

For a stark reminder of your privileged place in the world, stop by this year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.... 

<em>Draw</em>

Art

Draw

Friday 14/3 @ StolenSpace Gallery

Draw offers up some fine examples of images from the urban jungle — skateboard designs, music-related art, tattoos, graffiti — with... 

Nour el Huda Awad: <em>Alhambra</em>

Art

Nour el Huda Awad

Friday 14/3 @ The Cochrane Theatre

Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features... 

Alfredo Jaar: <em>Politics of the Image</em>

Art

Alfredo Jaar

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Jean Prouvé

Special Event

Jean Prouvé

Friday 14/3 @ Design Museum

French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing... 

<em>Cupboard Love 2</em>

City Gems

Cupboard Love 2

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

Barry Reigate: <em>Happiness</em>

Art

Barry Reigate

Friday 14/3 @ Paradise Row

Barry Reigate's knack for creating downright bizarre artwork is on full display in his first major London solo show. At Bethnal... 

Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth

Art

Elizabethan Flagons

Friday 14/3 @ 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.... 

<em>Star Quality: Aspects of No&euml;l Coward</em>

Special Event

Aspects of Noël Coward

Friday 14/3 @ National Theatre

Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in... 

Rick Shapiro

Comedy

Rick Shapiro

Friday 14/3 @ Soho Theatre

Rick Shapiro, who makes his UK debut tonight, built his reputation in New York as an underground comedian with an unstable... 

<em>1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in our World</em>

Special Event

1001 Inventions

Friday 14/3 @ 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... 

<em>The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha </em>

Art

The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha

Friday 14/3 @ Tate Britain

After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent... 

Bird's Eye View Film Festival

Film

Bird's Eye View Film Festival

Friday 14/3 @ BFI Southbank

Celebrate the great women of film at the Bird's Eye View opening-night gala. An introduction from the illustrious Maureen Lipman kicks... 

<I>Dealer's Choice</I>

Theatre

Dealer's Choice

Friday 14/3 @ 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...