Events on Wednesday, April 23
Wednesday 23/4 @ BFI Southbank
You may have seen Billy Wilder's timeless cross-dressing caper a million times, but if you haven't enjoyed it on the big...
Magik Markers w/ Old Time Relijun
Wednesday 23/4 @ Cargo
It's a noise-rock special at Cargo, and Upset the Rhythm shows us the strength of the US scene with two contrasting,...
Wednesday 23/4 @ Bloomsbury Theatre
Join literary star Will Self at Blackwells to celebrate the publication of his new novel, The Butt — a wry, savage...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ The Agency Gallery
Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Covent Garden Market Piazza
The bizarre weather may suggest the contrary, but spring has definitely sprung. To celebrate, Covent Garden Market is hosting this festival...
Wednesday 23/4 @ Dreamspace Gallery
View our sprawling urban mass anew through the eyes of an architect with Ben Williams' debut solo exhibition, Turned On and...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Various locations
This festival is not only a chance to see cutting-edge independent cinema but also a celebration of the East End's cultural...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Imperial War Museum Park
Ian Fleming, the author responsible for birthing the shaken-not-stirred secret agent James Bond, receives his due in this new exhibition at...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
London Palestine Film Festival
Wednesday 23/4 @ Barbican
This year's fortnight-long showcase comprises nearly 50 films, from art shorts — including a 15-minute piece by Turner Prize nominee Mona...
Wednesday 23/4 @ Magnum Print Room
Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Hales Gallery
Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Flowers East
Ken Currie investigates the fine line separating civilisation from savagery. With its near-chiaroscuro depictions of horses, mating elephants and human grotesques,...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Young Vic
If what you recall of Punch and Judy includes soggy fish 'n chips, ice cream and hazy summers in Blackpool, best...
Wednesday 23/4 @ Spitalfields Traders Market
If London Fashion Week left you with a bitter taste over Z-list celebrities clutching preposterously oversized bags and gawping insincerely at...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and...
Wednesday 23/4 @ The Photographers' Gallery
Running Late, an unlikely collaboration between the Photographers' Gallery and Cuts hair salon, doesn't include snaps of hair being swept up...
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Wednesday 23/4 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Wednesday 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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 23/4 @ 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...
