Events on Monday, April 28

Teenagers in Tokyo

Music: Electronic

Teenagers in Tokyo

Monday 28/4 @ Barfly

With the ink still fresh on their contract with Back Yard Recordings, Australian five-piece Teenagers in Tokyo hit up the Barfly.... 

Unknown Devices: The Laptop Orchestra

Special Event

Unknown Devices: The Laptop Orchestra

Monday 28/4 @ Southbank Centre

This evening, members of the London Sinfonietta join forces with students from the Royal College of Music and electronic artists from... 

Ongoing Events

Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth

Art

Elizabethan Flagons

Monday 28/4 @ 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.... 

<em>King Lear </em>

Theatre

King Lear

Monday 28/4 @ Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's most tragic of tragedies was in the limelight last year with the RSC's production starring Sir Ian McKellen. For the... 

<em>Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture</em>

Art

Skin + Bones

Monday 28/4 @ Somerset House

Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's... 

Nour el Huda Awad: <em>Alhambra</em>

Art

Nour el Huda Awad

Monday 28/4 @ The Cochrane Theatre

Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features... 

<em>1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in our World</em>

Special Event

1001 Inventions

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

<em>Dorm</em>

Art: Photography

Dorm

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

Spring Renaissance at Covent Garden

Festival: Performing Arts

Spring Renaissance

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

Censorship as a Creative Force

Monday 28/4 @ Barbican

Exploring the creation of art in the face of domineering regimes, Censorship as a Creative Force is the Barbican's latest film... 

<em>The Camden Town Group</em>

Art

The Camden Town Group

Monday 28/4 @ Tate Britain

Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the... 

China Design Now

Art

China Design Now

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

Out of Joint presents <em>Testing the Echo</em>

Theatre

Testing the Echo

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

Lee Ufan

Art

Lee Ufan

Monday 28/4 @ Lisson Gallery

Korean painter, sculptor and philosopher Lee Ufan first came into prominence in the late '60s as one of the key players... 

<em>Bearing Witness: Five Years Reporting in Iraq</em>

Art: Photography

Bearing Witness

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

<em>Into The Hoods</em>

Theatre

Into The Hoods

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

<em>Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book</em>

Art

Blood on Paper

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

The London Palestine Film Festival 2008

Film

London Palestine Film Festival

Monday 28/4 @ Barbican

This year's fortnight-long showcase comprises nearly 50 films, from art shorts — including a 15-minute piece by Turner Prize nominee Mona... 

<em>Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia</em>

Art

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

Monday 28/4 @ Tate Modern

It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively... 

Jerwood Contemporary Painters

Art

Jerwood Contemporary Painters

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

<em>Peacocks &amp; Pinstripes</em>

Art: Photography

Peacocks & Pinstripes

Monday 28/4 @ Fashion and Textile Museum

Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine... 

<em>Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art</em>

Art

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art

Monday 28/4 @ Barbican

In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"... 

Rob Ryan

Art

Rob Ryan

Monday 28/4 @ Tatty Devine

Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for... 

Reader in Residence

City Gems

Reader in Residence

Monday 28/4 @ Andaz Hotel

The Savoy Hotel may have had an artist or writer in residence for too many years to count, but Liverpool Street's... 

Walter Hanlon: <em>Jazz in London</em>

Art: Photography

Jazz in London

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

<em>Richard Rogers & Architects:</em><em> </em><em>From the House to the City</em> <em> </em>

Art

Richard Rogers & Architects

Monday 28/4 @ Design Museum

Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To... 

<em>The Year of Magical Thinking</em>

Theatre

The Year of Magical Thinking

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

Liliane Lijn: <em>Stardust</em>

Art

Liliane Lijn

Monday 28/4 @ Riflemaker Gallery

Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using... 

<em>The ALI Folio</em>

Art: Photography

The ALI Folio

Monday 28/4 @ Proud Central

Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of... 

<em>Sacred</em>

Art

Sacred

Monday 28/4 @ Chelsea Theatre

Sacred, the Chelsea Theatre's festival of live arts, puts the swing back into King's Road. The eclectic ensemble of show-stoppers and... 

<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

<em>The City</em>

Theatre

The City

Monday 28/4 @ Royal Court Theatre

If you're in the mood for social decay, morally repugnant characters and simmering violence, head to Royal Court Theatre, where Martin... 

<em>Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008</em>

Art: Photography

Vanity Fair Portraits

Monday 28/4 @ National Portrait Gallery

Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Monday 28/4 @ The Science Museum

Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... 

Luke Kendall: <em>The Great Sparrow Campaign </em>

Art

Luke Kendall

Monday 28/4 @ Beach Blanket Babylon Shoreditch

Luke Kendall shifts his focus from the dainty creatures of the Lepidopterist art collective to a more engaged study of humanity.... 

<em>Amazing Butterflies</em>

City Gems

Amazing Butterflies

Monday 28/4 @ Natural History Museum

Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send... 

In Focus feat. <em>Running Late</em>

Art: Photography

Running Late

Monday 28/4 @ 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... 

<em>War & Peace</em>

Theatre

War & Peace

Monday 28/4 @ 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...