Events on Friday, April 25
Alastair Lansley and St Pancras International
Friday 25/4 @ Design Museum
Marrying St Pancras Station's Victorian-gothic extravagance with contemporary design was never going to be an easy task, but somebody had to...
Friday 25/4 @ Southbank Centre
The Southbank's newest venue, the Spirit Level, brings together a host of lyrical talents to celebrate the launch of Patience Agbabi's...
Friday 25/4 @ Bernie Grant Art Centre
Performance artist Mem Morrison journeys back to his childhood to examine the cultural jigsaw of the greasy spoon. Drawing upon his...
Ongoing Events
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Design Museum
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To...
Friday 25/4 @ Flowers East
Ken Currie investigates the fine line separating civilisation from savagery. With its near-chiaroscuro depictions of horses, mating elephants and human grotesques,...
Friday 25/4 @ Hales Gallery
Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection...
Friday 25/4 @ The Cochrane Theatre
Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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....
Friday 25/4 @ gallery12
Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal...
Friday 25/4 @ 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,...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Censorship as a Creative Force
Friday 25/4 @ Barbican
Exploring the creation of art in the face of domineering regimes, Censorship as a Creative Force is the Barbican's latest film...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ HOST Gallery
In Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, acclaimed press photographer Judah Passow portrays Israel's past, conflicted present and uncertain future. A...
Friday 25/4 @ National Theatre
When writer Joan Didion's husband died suddenly at the end of 2003, in the midst of their only daughter's hospitalisation with...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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
Friday 25/4 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Alvin Langdon Coburn and Jane England
Friday 25/4 @ Ancient & Modern
Diminutive Whitecross Street gallery Ancient & Modern stage eccentric exhibitions that honour their name. In that tradition, the Alvin Langdon Coburn...
Friday 25/4 @ 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....
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Friday 25/4 @ 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
Friday 25/4 @ Barbican
This year's fortnight-long showcase comprises nearly 50 films, from art shorts — including a 15-minute piece by Turner Prize nominee Mona...
Friday 25/4 @ The Agency Gallery
Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Dreamspace Gallery
View our sprawling urban mass anew through the eyes of an architect with Ben Williams' debut solo exhibition, Turned On and...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Friday 25/4 @ Young Vic
If what you recall of Punch and Judy includes soggy fish 'n chips, ice cream and hazy summers in Blackpool, best...
Friday 25/4 @ Proud Central
Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ [DELETE] BFI Southbank
Anyone with even a passing interest in India shouldn't miss this collection of cinematic postcards from the subcontinent. Spanning the first...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Friday 25/4 @ PM Gallery & House
Buildings (both real and invented) are the theme for this exhibition at the PM Gallery in West London. Artists Emily Allchurch,...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Magnum Print Room
Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the...
Friday 25/4 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ 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...
Friday 25/4 @ Andaz Hotel
The Savoy Hotel may have had an artist or writer in residence for too many years to count, but Liverpool Street's...
