Events on Friday, April 4
Friday 4/4 @ Various locations
Hoping to expand the reach of the original, controversial filmmaker Michael Haneke (Caché, The Piano Teacher) has created a shot-by-shot English...
Friday 4/4 @ Passion
Following up its unforgettable Christmas session — a night of sublime minimal in (what looked like) a former school hall in...
Friday 4/4 @ Proud Camden
The Gin House Proud Gallery is dead — long live the new Horse Hospital Proud Gallery! Moving from one Camden Market...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
2008 London Burlesque Festival
Friday 4/4 @ Various locations
Flames, fans, hoops and tassles are all on display at the 2008 London Burlesque Festival. Now in its second year, the...
Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray
Friday 4/4 @ Standpoint Gallery
Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray offer deceptive stylisations of fruit and hot-dog stands (respectively) in their joint sculptural installation, exploring the...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ Southbank Centre
Almost 90 years after the Bauhaus design ideal was unveiled in Germany, comic-slash-artist Marc Horowitz brings a similar concept to London....
Friday 4/4 @ Bischoff/Weiss
Monologue/Dialogue II's artists use sculpture, painting and installation to convey their own vision of Bangkok. Nathaniel Rackowe's urban, fluorescent installations are...
Laughing in a Foreign Language
Friday 4/4 @ Hayward Gallery
Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps...
Friday 4/4 @ Barbican
As you might guess, The Harder They Come is the musical-theatre adaptation of the 1972 cult film starring reggae legend Jimmy...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ Various locations
This annual celebration of dance on film returns with another impressive selection. The line-up of features this year includes Been Rich...
Friday 4/4 @ gallery12
Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal...
Friday 4/4 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation
Friday 4/4 @ The Wapping Project
For the first installment of the Jerwood: Found in Translation series, Polish filmmaker Marta Michalowska presents four films that encapsulate the...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ Various locations
It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with...
Instructions for Modern Living
Friday 4/4 @ The Pit
Instructions for Modern Living aims to expose what goes on in the city when most people are safely snuggled under their...
Friday 4/4 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ South London Gallery
Fresh from the African Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar arrives at the South London...
Friday 4/4 @ The Stephen Lawrence Gallery at University of Greenwich
Borders and Identities explores the consequences of the lines drawn in geo-political sands. Palestinian-born Sharif Waked's short film Chic Point hauntingly...
Friday 4/4 @ Space Studios
Live Art on Camera presents a series of photographs of performance art from the 1950s to the present day. The exhibition...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ 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...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ Serpentine Gallery
Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman,...
Friday 4/4 @ Sadler's Wells
NDT 1, the premier troupe of the innovative Nederlands Dans Theater, presents work by resident choreographer Jirí Kylián as well as...
Friday 4/4 @ Chris Beetles Gallery
Over his 35-year career, photographer John Swannell has shot lakes and mountains across the globe, dramatic nudes and models showcasing the...
Friday 4/4 @ Paradise Row
Barry Reigate's knack for creating downright bizarre artwork is on full display in his first major London solo show. At Bethnal...
Friday 4/4 @ HOST Gallery
In Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, acclaimed press photographer Judah Passow portrays Israel's past, conflicted present and uncertain future. A...
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Friday 4/4 @ The Photographers' Gallery
The quality of the annual Deutsche Börse photography competition just gets better every year. Though this year's winner won't be announced...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ 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...
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Friday 4/4 @ BFI Southbank
Established in 1986 and currently maintaining a proud position as the third largest film fest in the UK, the annual London...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ Young Vic
David Lynch's surreal film Lost Highway isn't the most obvious subject for operatic interpretation. But with typical bravura, the Young Vic,...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ Zest Gallery
ZeST Contemporary presents Max Jacquard's Untold Stories, a solo exhibition of the glass artist's most recent works. Pillow Piece, the collection's...
Friday 4/4 @ Nettie Horn
No Letters brings together contemporary artworks that unpick assumptions about how we receive and digest public information — be it current...
Friday 4/4 @ Well Gallery
Vancouver-born, Munich-educated and London-based artist Daphne Plessner presents It's a Wallpaper World. Featuring a series of canvas paintings, the exhibition depicts...
Friday 4/4 @ Proud Central
Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of...
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Friday 4/4 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Friday 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ 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 4/4 @ 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...
