Events on Sunday, March 23

Easter Egg Surprise Preview

Film

Easter Egg Surprise Preview

Sunday 23/3 @ Renoir Cinema

Rather than selling theater tickets through a maddening automated phone service, this Easter Sunday treat makes movie-going a marvel of simplicity.... 

The Sonics

Music

The Sonics

Sunday 23/3 @ HMV Forum

The Sonics — garage pioneers and notorious fuzz rockers — reunite more than 30 years after introducing their unconventional style to... 

Deselect present Electronic Easter Jam feat. Timeblind w/ Geiom and Appleblim

Music: Electronic

Deselect present Electronic Easter Jam

Sunday 23/3 @ The Salisbury Hotel

Nottingham's Deselect transport their audiovisual night to London, putting on an evening of live, bass-heavy electronic music in the elegant confines... 

The Paradise Show feat. the Count & Sinden w/ Ipso Facto

Party

The Paradise Show

Sunday 23/3 @ Paradise by Way of Kensal Green

Tonight, Paradise carries on its tradition of truly debauched bank-holiday parties. A massive line-up fills the seven uniquely dramatic spaces. Psychedelic,... 

The Gay Tea Dance

Music: DJ

The Gay Tea Dance

Sunday 23/3 @ Ku Bar

Ku Bar's Gay Tea Dance is a celebrated event, guarded zealously by hostess Lady Lloyd at the door. Tracing its roots... 

TrailerTrash Fourth Birthday Warehouse Party

Music: Electronic

TrailerTrash

Sunday 23/3 @ Hearn Street Car Park

Hoxton's fashionista club of choice turns four years old this Easter — and to celebrate, they've roped in some DJ beasts... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Draw</em>

Art

Draw

Sunday 23/3 @ StolenSpace Gallery

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

<em>Random</em>

Theatre

Random

Sunday 23/3 @ Royal Court Theatre

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

[SOLD OUT] Turnmills: The Last Dance

Party

Turnmills: The Last Dance

Sunday 23/3 @ Turnmills

No, this isn't a screening of the 1996 Sharon Stone prison flick, nor of the similarly titled 2001 film fluff Save... 

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

Film

Cornelia Parker

Sunday 23/3 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery

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

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

Art

Chris von Steiner

Sunday 23/3 @ Strychnin Gallery

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

<em>The Camden Town Group</em>

Art

The Camden Town Group

Sunday 23/3 @ Tate Britain

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

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

Art

Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation

Sunday 23/3 @ The Wapping Project

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

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Sunday 23/3 @ The Science Museum

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

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

Special Event

1001 Inventions

Sunday 23/3 @ 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>Star Quality: Aspects of No&euml;l Coward</em>

Special Event

Aspects of Noël Coward

Sunday 23/3 @ National Theatre

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

<em>Cupboard Love 2</em>

City Gems

Cupboard Love 2

Sunday 23/3 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Sunday 23/3 @ 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... 

Derek Jarman

Film

Derek Jarman

Sunday 23/3 @ 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>Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art</em>

Art

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

Sunday 23/3 @ Barbican

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

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

Art

The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha

Sunday 23/3 @ Tate Britain

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

Zo&euml; Mendelson and Joel Tomlin: <em>Oh Vienna</em>

Art

Oh Vienna

Sunday 23/3 @ Transition Gallery

Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams provided the overriding critical context for much of the 20th century's cultural output. Though the discipline... 

<i>Moore at Kew</i>

Art

Moore at Kew

Sunday 23/3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Tobias Till

Sunday 23/3 @ gallery12

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

<em>Into The Hoods</em>

Theatre

Into The Hoods

Sunday 23/3 @ 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... 

Jean Prouvé

Special Event

Jean Prouvé

Sunday 23/3 @ Design Museum

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

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

Art

Alfredo Jaar

Sunday 23/3 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Jazz in London

Sunday 23/3 @ 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... 

Barry Reigate: <em>Happiness</em>

Art

Barry Reigate

Sunday 23/3 @ Paradise Row

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

China Design Now

Art

China Design Now

Sunday 23/3 @ Victoria and Albert Museum

Celebrating China's return to the graphic-art world stage, China Design Now embarks on a three-part journey along the country's coastline. The... 

<em>Electric Blue</em>

Art

Electric Blue

Sunday 23/3 @ 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>Laughing in a Foreign Language</em>

Art

Laughing in a Foreign Language

Sunday 23/3 @ Hayward Gallery

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

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

Art

Chris Levine

Sunday 23/3 @ 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>Graffiti Express</em>

Art

Graffiti Express

Sunday 23/3 @ The Gallery at Willesden Green

From the vandal tube bombs of Tox to the beloved stencilling of Banksy, graffiti is now both physically and culturally spread... 

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

Art: Photography

Alexander Rodchenko

Sunday 23/3 @ 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,... 

<em>Arena</em> at Curzon: <em>Arena</em> Essentials

Film: Documentary

Arena at Curzon

Sunday 23/3 @ Curzon Soho

German film director Werner Herzog once called it "an oasis in the sea of insanity that is television". The BBC documentary... 

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

Art: Photography

Vanity Fair Portraits

Sunday 23/3 @ National Portrait Gallery

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

<em>No Letters</em>

Art

No Letters

Sunday 23/3 @ Nettie Horn

No Letters brings together contemporary artworks that unpick assumptions about how we receive and digest public information — be it current... 

Marc Horowitz: <em>The Centre for Improved Living</em>

Art

Marc Horowitz

Sunday 23/3 @ Southbank Centre

Almost 90 years after the Bauhaus design ideal was unveiled in Germany, comic-slash-artist Marc Horowitz brings a similar concept to London.... 

<em>The ALI Folio</em>

Art: Photography

The ALI Folio

Sunday 23/3 @ Proud Central

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

China in London

Festival: Performing Arts

China in London

Sunday 23/3 @ Various locations

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

<em>Wrapping Japan</em>

Special Event

Wrapping Japan

Sunday 23/3 @ 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... 

Christian M&ouml;ller

Art

Christian Möller

Sunday 23/3 @ Vegas Gallery

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

Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth

Art

Elizabethan Flagons

Sunday 23/3 @ 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.... 

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

Sunday 23/3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

Sunday 23/3 @ Tate Modern

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

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

Art: Photography

Peacocks & Pinstripes

Sunday 23/3 @ Fashion and Textile Museum

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

Sleeping & Dreaming

Special Event

Sleeping & Dreaming

Sunday 23/3 @ Wellcome Collection

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