Events on Thursday, April 24
Thursday 24/4 @ Curzon Soho
In contrast to Anton Corbijn's stylistic monochrome masterpiece Control (2007), Grant Gee's straightforward colour account of seminal Manchester band Joy Division...
Another Music = Another Kitchen
Thursday 24/4 @ Proud Galleries
Newly revamped Camden hangout Proud welcomes AM=AK's latest line-up of sexy rockers. Loud and Quiet magazine curates the roster this time...
Thursday 24/4 @ IndigO2
As part of the Eat Your Own Ears series, Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) headlines a stellar lineup at IndigO2, the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 24/4 @ Magnum Print Room
Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the...
Thursday 24/4 @ Design Museum
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ The Cochrane Theatre
Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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....
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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,...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ South London Gallery
Some may spend their gap year soul-searching (that is, aimlessly wandering the globe or lolling about in a drunken stupor). But...
Thursday 24/4 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Thursday 24/4 @ Young Vic
If what you recall of Punch and Judy includes soggy fish 'n chips, ice cream and hazy summers in Blackpool, best...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ HOST Gallery
In Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, acclaimed press photographer Judah Passow portrays Israel's past, conflicted present and uncertain future. A...
Thursday 24/4 @ Hales Gallery
Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection...
Thursday 24/4 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Thursday 24/4 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Thursday 24/4 @ PM Gallery & House
Buildings (both real and invented) are the theme for this exhibition at the PM Gallery in West London. Artists Emily Allchurch,...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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....
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
London Palestine Film Festival
Thursday 24/4 @ Barbican
This year's fortnight-long showcase comprises nearly 50 films, from art shorts — including a 15-minute piece by Turner Prize nominee Mona...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ Dreamspace Gallery
View our sprawling urban mass anew through the eyes of an architect with Ben Williams' debut solo exhibition, Turned On and...
Alvin Langdon Coburn and Jane England
Thursday 24/4 @ Ancient & Modern
Diminutive Whitecross Street gallery Ancient & Modern stage eccentric exhibitions that honour their name. In that tradition, the Alvin Langdon Coburn...
Thursday 24/4 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ The Agency Gallery
Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy...
Thursday 24/4 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ Chelsea Town Hall
Even though the venue is Chelsea Town Hall, don't automatically assume everything at this year's Art Fair is as out of...
Thursday 24/4 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Thursday 24/4 @ gallery12
Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Thursday 24/4 @ Proud Central
Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of...
Thursday 24/4 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Thursday 24/4 @ Flowers East
Ken Currie investigates the fine line separating civilisation from savagery. With its near-chiaroscuro depictions of horses, mating elephants and human grotesques,...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ The Old Truman Brewery
Flex those fingers, drain that piggy bank and join the bargain hunters for this rifling feeding frenzy. For four days, Designer...
Thursday 24/4 @ 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...
Thursday 24/4 @ Andaz Hotel
The Savoy Hotel may have had an artist or writer in residence for too many years to count, but Liverpool Street's...
