Events on Thursday, March 6
Thursday 6/3 @ Cecil Sharp House
Author Alexander McCall Smith has much to talk about, from the ten-year anniversary of his best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency...
Still the Opium of the Masses?
Thursday 6/3 @ Bishopsgate Institute
The Institute of Ideas and Bishopsgate Institute present the second part of a series of debates on the state of contemporary...
Thursday 6/3 @ Union Chapel
Laura Marling is maxing out the parameters of the standard album with her new release, Alas I Cannot Swim. Only owners...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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
Thursday 6/3 @ Barbican
For an injection of true-blue Aussie films (Crocodile Dundee doesn't count, silly), the Barbican once again hosts the London Australian Film...
Thursday 6/3 @ Seventeen Gallery
Werner Herzog once bet Errol Morris that he would eat his own shoe if his then-unknown protégé ever completed his first...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Design Museum
French architect, engineer and manufacturer Jean Prouvé was such a huge influence on the world of design that it's quite astonishing...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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....
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Various locations
London logophiles head east for this celebration of all things lingual, from blogging to books, poetry to plays and comedy to...
Thursday 6/3 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Thursday 6/3 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Thursday 6/3 @ Gillett Square
Since the launch of free rags like thelondonpaper and London Lite, discarded newspapers have become a real problem on the capital's...
Thursday 6/3 @ Carnaby Gallery
If public displays of affection don't make you cringe, then head to bustling Carnaby Street, where fashion photographer and Central Saint...
Made by Slaves for Free People
Thursday 6/3 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Pablo San-José and Cynthia Viera (aka PSJM) are outspoken critics of global capitalism. The dissident duo — who were previously forced...
Thursday 6/3 @ Soho Theatre
Rick Shapiro, who makes his UK debut tonight, built his reputation in New York as an underground comedian with an unstable...
Thursday 6/3 @ Business Design Centre
Hordes of architects and designers descend upon Islington's Business Design Centre for this year's Surface Design Show. Scheduled lectures include Imagining...
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Thursday 6/3 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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,...
Thursday 6/3 @ Various locations
International Women's Week descends upon London once again, celebrating the achievements of the — let's face it — fairer sex. The...
Thursday 6/3 @ Carter Presents
Dallas Seitz's bizarre selections of creepy memorabilia comment on personal and collective identity. In Georgette Magritte and the Exotic Sea, the...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Flowers
Part of the Children in Conflict collection, John Keane's Angola exhibition documents the fraught state of a post-conflict society six years...
Thursday 6/3 @ Barbican
As you might guess, The Harder They Come is the musical-theatre adaptation of the 1972 cult film starring reggae legend Jimmy...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Wellcome Collection
Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces,...
Thursday 6/3 @ Vegas Gallery
Berlin-based artist and Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts graduate Christian Möller presents a solo exhibition of his most recent efforts at...
Thursday 6/3 @ Hayward Gallery
Francis Ford Coppola meets AA Milne; Marlon Brando meets Winnie the Pooh; Vietnam meets the Hundred Acre Wood. Mexican artist Artemio's...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
Notorious artist Cornelia Parker likes to experiment with media. Previous materials have included dust from the Whispering Gallery at
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Thursday 6/3 @ Hayward Gallery
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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....
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
Thursday 6/3 @ Tate Britain
After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Rokeby
For his second solo exhibition at Rokeby, Simon Keenleyside explores the conceptual boundaries of landscapes by examinging the locales around his...
Thursday 6/3 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Thursday 6/3 @ Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents a new staging of notorious, uproarious gender bender La Cage aux Folles. The Broadway reincarnation of...
Thursday 6/3 @ Bloomberg SPACE
Always a key event in the art season, ARTfutures returns to the Bloomberg SPACE. This year's show is curated by Jeni...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Forster Gallery
Andrew McAttee's paintings glow with Technicolor positivity. After stints as a builder and street artist, McAttee sought out classical training, but...
Thursday 6/3 @ Serpentine Gallery
Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman,...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ 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...
Thursday 6/3 @ Various locations
It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with...
