Events on Friday, May 2
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Vivienne Westwood
- @ Design Museum
- Design icon and all-around political rabble-rouser Vivienne Westwood presents her manifesto Active Resistance to Propaganda at the Design Museum. Written as... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Alison Jackson
- @ Hamiltons Gallery
- Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Laurie Anderson
- @ Barbican Centre
- Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work to date as part of the Barbican bite08 series. Featuring... View details »
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- Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
- @ Barbican Centre
- In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"... View details »
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- Bob and Roberta Smith
- @ Hales Gallery
- Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection... View details »
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- Rob Ryan
- @ Tatty Devine
- Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Into The Hoods
- @ 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... View details »
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- Front of House
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Alvin Langdon Coburn and Jane England
- @ Ancient & Modern
- Diminutive Whitecross Street gallery Ancient & Modern stage eccentric exhibitions that honour their name. In that tradition, the Alvin Langdon Coburn... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- Spring Renaissance
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The City
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jenny Pockley
- @ 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... View details »
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- Luke Kendall
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Vanity Fair Portraits
- @ National Portrait Gallery
- Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Haozhan
- @ Haozhan
- Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey... View details »
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- Elizabethan Flagons
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Film
- All Power to the Imagination!
- @ Various locations
- This expansive festival celebrates 1968's pivotal role in shaping the world as we know it with a rich slate of events,... View details »
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- Jerwood Contemporary Painters
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ken Currie
- @ Flowers East
- Ken Currie investigates the fine line separating civilisation from savagery. With its near-chiaroscuro depictions of horses, mating elephants and human grotesques,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Richard Rogers & Architects
- @ Design Museum
- Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- The ALI Folio
- @ Proud Central
- Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of... View details »
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- Clare Barclay
- @ Camden Arts Centre
- In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Footprints in the Sand
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Dorm
- @ 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... View details »
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- Riceboy Sleeps
- @ The Agency Gallery
- Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Running Late
- @ 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... View details »
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- Sacred
- @ 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... View details »
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- Mat Collishaw
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- The Regent
- @ The Regent
- If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Slow Food Market
- @ Southbank Centre
- With talk of food miles and free-range vs organic never far from the headlines, slow food has truly come into its... View details »
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- SCI-FI-LONDON 7 Film Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Urban Art Show
- @ The Old Cinema
- West London antiques emporium and former picture palace the Old Cinema exchanges old masters for young talent this weekend, when it... View details »
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- The Adam and Ron Show
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Camden Town Group
- @ Tate Britain
- Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the... View details »
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- Mare Tenebrarum
- @ Transition Gallery
- The bicentenary of the prince of dark literature, Edgar Allen Poe, marks a central concern in the work of the two... View details »
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- Blood on Paper
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- King Lear
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Skin + Bones
- @ Somerset House
- Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 1001 Inventions
- @ 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... View details »
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- Listening Post
- @ The Science Museum
- Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... View details »
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- Sinatra! The Voice on Screen
- @ 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... View details »
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- Liliane Lijn
- @ Riflemaker Gallery
- Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hide and Seek
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Amazing Butterflies
- @ Natural History Museum
- Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send... View details »
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- Daniel Pflumm
- @ 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... View details »
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- Lee Ufan
- @ Lisson Gallery
- Korean painter, sculptor and philosopher Lee Ufan first came into prominence in the late '60s as one of the key players... View details »
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- Tobias Till
- @ gallery12
- Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Café on the Hill
- @ Cafe on the Hill
- With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Bearing Witness
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Sports
- London Fencing Club
- @ Finsbury Leisure Centre
- If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that,"... View details »
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- Still Another Place
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- War & Peace
- @ 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... View details »
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- Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
- @ Hayward Gallery
- With all of the protests and civil unrest going on, 1968 wasn't the best year to take a trip to Paris.... View details »
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- Ryan Gander
- @ 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... View details »
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- For Your Eyes Only
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ruth Hinkel-Pevzner
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Peacocks & Pinstripes
- @ Fashion and Textile Museum
- Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Tovarisch, I am not dead
- @ Odeon Swiss Cottage
- In Tovarisch, I am not dead, documentarian Stuart Urban turns his camera on his father, Garri Urban. The elder man escaped... View details »
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- Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
- @ Tate Modern
- It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Steve McCurry
- @ Magnum Print Room
- Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Jazz in London
- @ 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... View details »
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- Pop
- @ ICA
- The Independent Cinema Office continues its Secret Masterpieces of Cinema series with this 90-minute look back at the pop culture of... View details »
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- Nour el Huda Awad
- @ The Cochrane Theatre
- Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Testing the Echo
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- China Design Now
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Street
- @ 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... View details »
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