Events on Wednesday, April 16
Wednesday 16/4 @ The Social
Record sleeves are fast becoming a distant memory as MP3s take over the music world, but Sleeveface have found a new...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Madame Jojo's
The rockabilly revival isn't over. The high street is awash with lumberjack shirts and full skirts, and tonight's club launch further...
Wednesday 16/4 @ The Luminaire
Falkirk's latter-day beat poet Aidan Moffat descends from the Highlands to bless London with his brash, honest and uncompromising tirades about...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Cargo
All the Rage events are heaven-sent for those jaded oldsters tired of taking beer-and-sawdust dives as the devil's ransom for watching...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 16/4 @ Arcola Theatre
Rebecca Lenkiewicz's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People skillfully transfers the play's explorations of greed and small-town politics...
Wednesday 16/4 @ 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 16/4 @ Andaz Hotel
The Savoy Hotel may have had an artist or writer in residence for too many years to count, but Liverpool Street's...
Wednesday 16/4 @ [DELETE] BFI Southbank
French director Claude Lelouch's 1966 variation of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter won two Oscars (for Foreign Language Film and Best Writing,...
Wednesday 16/4 @ 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...
Wednesday 16/4 @ The Horse Hospital
Self-taught, Cheshire-born artist Mark Pawson is a favourite source of affordable art. The serial collector produces badges, prints and signs that...
Wednesday 16/4 @ The Cochrane Theatre
Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features...
Wednesday 16/4 @ The Street Project Base
They may navigate us through our lives, but have you ever considered London's streets as the context for artistic interrogation? Over...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
The title of the Parasol Unit's new collaborative exhibition refers, on the surface, to public spaces in theatres and concert halls....
Wednesday 16/4 @ Courtyard Theatre
Tonight is the UK premiere of Tennessee Williams' lesser-known play The Pink Bedroom, on the bill with three other rare, one-act...
Wednesday 16/4 @ 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 16/4 @ 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...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Wednesday 16/4 @ PM Gallery & House
Buildings (both real and invented) are the theme for this exhibition at the PM Gallery in West London. Artists Emily Allchurch,...
Wednesday 16/4 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Wednesday 16/4 @ The Agency Gallery
Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy...
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Wednesday 16/4 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Wednesday 16/4 @ New Players Theatre
The New Players Theatre, one of the capital's most atmospheric performance spaces, plays host to the devilishly dark Tiger Lillies. Presenting...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
This new exhibition at the V&A offers visual art reworkings and interpretations of the humble paperback. The works on display range...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Hampstead Theatre
Get lost in the drama of the Bezukhovs and Bolkonskys with Shared Experience's stage adaptation of Tolstoy's magnum opus. Adapted by...
Wednesday 16/4 @ 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 16/4 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Nettie Horn
No Letters brings together contemporary artworks that unpick assumptions about how we receive and digest public information — be it current...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Space Studios
Live Art on Camera presents a series of photographs of performance art from the 1950s to the present day. The exhibition...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Proud Central
Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Spring Projects
For Deliverance, multimedia artist Mat Collishaw creates and deconstructs disaster scenes through a method of high-contrast, split-second projection. Collishaw applies coats...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Idea Generation Gallery
The brand-new Idea Generation Gallery launches with a hard-hitting exhibition of photojournalism from Iraq's front lines. It's been five years since...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Viewfinder Photography Gallery
Taking into consideration that a significant portion of life is realized within the confines of one's bedroom, Dorm is a photographic...
Wednesday 16/4 @ 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 16/4 @ The Big Chill House
Digital artists Alex Haw and VJ Mauritius Seeger pair up to explore the befuddling notion of time. Haw and Seeger's projection...
Wednesday 16/4 @ HOST Gallery
In Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, acclaimed press photographer Judah Passow portrays Israel's past, conflicted present and uncertain future. A...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Magnum Print Room
Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
Berlin is home and muse to some of Europe's most intriguing visual artists, including Geneva-born Daniel Pflumm. A keen musician and...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Wednesday 16/4 @ The Tricycle Theatre
Out of Joint presents David Edgar's sharp, politically brave play, Testing the Echo. The story unfolds at an English-language school, where...
Wednesday 16/4 @ 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,...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
The Lyric Hammersmith present Contains Violence, a site-specific theatrical performance that plays out beyond the stage and into office windows along...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Oval House
The Oval House's double bill, directed by Helena Bell, comprises two plays that explore the new beginnings of immigrants. Oladipo Agboluaje's...
Wednesday 16/4 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Paradise Row
Barry Reigate's knack for creating downright bizarre artwork is on full display in his first major London solo show. At Bethnal...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Jerwood Space
For its second annual exhibition, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation asked three well-respected artists and academics to choose 20 promising recent art-school...
Wednesday 16/4 @ 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...
Whispered Secrets, Murmuring Dreams
Wednesday 16/4 @ Mall Galleries
Featuring over 40 paintings and photos by 24 diverse talents, this exhibition is a rare opportunity to encounter modern Iranian art...
Wednesday 16/4 @ Hales Gallery
Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection...
Wednesday 16/4 @ 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...
