Events on Thursday, May 1
Thursday 1/5 @ Museum of London Docklands
With less than four months until the second annual Canary Wharf Film Festival — a four-day celebration of local short-film talent...
Thursday 1/5 @ Louise T Blouin Institute
Drawing from the eclectic case histories presented in his A Portrait of the Brain (ranging from epilepsy and memory loss to...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/5 @ gallery12
Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal...
Thursday 1/5 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Thursday 1/5 @ National Film Theatre
Although better known for his pipes, Ol' Blue Eyes also starred in more than 50 films. Because he wasn't a conventional...
Thursday 1/5 @ Magnum Print Room
Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ Blue Elephant Theatre
Tal Jakubowiczova is both playwright and director for this physical-theatre performance by the Shift Theatre ensemble. The piece follows a woman...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ Hales Gallery
Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection...
Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Thursday 1/5 @ Hayward Gallery
With all of the protests and civil unrest going on, 1968 wasn't the best year to take a trip to Paris....
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ Barbican
Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work to date as part of the Barbican bite08 series. Featuring...
Thursday 1/5 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Thursday 1/5 @ Nicholls & Clarke Building
Filmmaker Ruth Hinkel-Pevzner combed through Russian film archives to create her new video work, installed in the centre of a disused...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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
Thursday 1/5 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ Apollo West End Cinema
Forget cheesily brandishing your lightsaber at yet another Lucasfilm screening and head instead to SCI-FI-LONDON 7, the indie underground of sci-fi...
Alvin Langdon Coburn and Jane England
Thursday 1/5 @ Ancient & Modern
Diminutive Whitecross Street gallery Ancient & Modern stage eccentric exhibitions that honour their name. In that tradition, the Alvin Langdon Coburn...
Thursday 1/5 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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....
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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...
Thursday 1/5 @ 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 1/5 @ 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...
