Events on Saturday, May 17
Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra
Saturday 17/5 @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre's beatboxing artist-in-residence Shlomo is a true pleasure — every installment of his genre-crushing series Music through Unconventional Means has...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 17/5 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ BFI Southbank
Long before Vic and Bob and The Mighty Boosh boys — even predating the Pythons — was N.F. "Wally" Simpson. This...
Saturday 17/5 @ Flowers East
Ken Currie investigates the fine line separating civilisation from savagery. With its near-chiaroscuro depictions of horses, mating elephants and human grotesques,...
Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Saturday 17/5 @ Hayward Gallery
With all of the protests and civil unrest going on, 1968 wasn't the best year to take a trip to Paris....
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ Rokeby
Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking...
Saturday 17/5 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Saturday 17/5 @ Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
Roll up, roll up: The Adam and Ron Show is coming to town, bringing together two urban artists from either side...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ Transition Gallery
The bicentenary of the prince of dark literature, Edgar Allen Poe, marks a central concern in the work of the two...
Saturday 17/5 @ Museum of Childhood
After the recent debacle with our city's own 2012 Olympic logo, you might be tempted to dismiss this little gem of...
Saturday 17/5 @ The Agency Gallery
Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy...
Saturday 17/5 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
Relive the days of '60s doo-wop and soul at the Victoria & Albert Museum's latest exhibition. Hailed as one of the...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ The Crypt, St Pancras Church
This group show explores the richness and diversity of artists' senses of place. Simon Dawe's dreamy landscapes draw from childhood idylls,...
Saturday 17/5 @ Alan Cristea Gallery
Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees...
Alvin Langdon Coburn and Jane England
Saturday 17/5 @ Ancient & Modern
Diminutive Whitecross Street gallery Ancient & Modern stage eccentric exhibitions that honour their name. In that tradition, the Alvin Langdon Coburn...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ Ferreira Projects
British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing...
Saturday 17/5 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Saturday 17/5 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Saturday 17/5 @ Leicester Square
Preposterous as it might seem, there's an opportunity to come over all zen-like in the gardens of Leicester Square. This rare...
Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
Saturday 17/5 @ FA Projects
The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism,...
Saturday 17/5 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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....
Saturday 17/5 @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
Voice Lab founder and Southbank artist in residence Mary King opens up the Queen Elizabeth Hall to anyone who wants to...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ Novas Contemporary Urban Centre
In this age of eco-awareness, we're all about the recycling thing — especially when the waste is transformed into something as...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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....
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Saturday 17/5 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ Design Museum
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To...
Saturday 17/5 @ Battersea Arts Centre
This year's BURST sees the Battersea Arts Centre host its largest-ever, month-long programme of experimental theatre performances. More than 30 shows...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ Camden Arts Centre
In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive...
Saturday 17/5 @ The Arts Theatre
The Arts Theatre premieres Tell Me… Lies, a powerful new drama by French playwright Carole-Anne Le Foll. The story follows a...
Saturday 17/5 @ HOST Gallery
Adam Hinton's latest photography series depicts Shanghai's aggressively productive capitalist society. Lovin' It takes the metropolis' fixation with commodity and consumerism...
Saturday 17/5 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Saturday 17/5 @ October Gallery
If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase...
Saturday 17/5 @ 176
French curator Vincent Honoré's exhibition at this fabulous NW5 art space explores conceptual art and manipulated media. Past-Forward features two specially...
Saturday 17/5 @ Alon Zakaim Fine Art
So realistic are Dan McDermott's oil canvases, that if you squint at any of his paintings, you could easily be looking...
Saturday 17/5 @ Carter Presents
A strangely serene beauty exudes from the putrid destruction and decay of Mark Wright's chaotic paintings. Drawing from ancient folklore, poetry...
Saturday 17/5 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Saturday 17/5 @ Various locations
London's biennial Fashion in Film Festival casts costumes in the starring role of a genre-spanning cinematic showcase. In this, its second...
Saturday 17/5 @ Sarah Myerscough Fine Art
Jenny Pockley's solo show at Sarah Myerscough Fine Art looks beyond the chaos of London's urban cacophony to present a meditative...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Saturday 17/5 @ Various locations
This expansive festival celebrates 1968's pivotal role in shaping the world as we know it with a rich slate of events,...
Saturday 17/5 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
Saturday 17/5 @ Maddox Arts Gallery
The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last...
Saturday 17/5 @ The Slade Studios
For a sneak preview of the next generation of Damien Hirsts and Tracey Emins, nip down to Slade's degree show and...
Saturday 17/5 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using...
Saturday 17/5 @ 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...
The Damask Rose Trust present Colours of the Sun
Saturday 17/5 @ The Syrian Embassy
Colours of the Sun is a collection of embroidered panels depicting the impoverished Syrian town of Jabal Al Hoss, as seen...
Laura Buckley & Alexis Harding
Saturday 17/5 @ Bruuns Bazaar
Laura Buckley and Alexis Harding's collection reduces the boundaries between art and artifice, between media and space. Respectively producing video installation...
Saturday 17/5 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
