Events on Friday, May 2
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/5 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Friday 2/5 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ The Agency Gallery
Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy...
Friday 2/5 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and...
Friday 2/5 @ Flowers East
Ken Currie investigates the fine line separating civilisation from savagery. With its near-chiaroscuro depictions of horses, mating elephants and human grotesques,...
Friday 2/5 @ 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,...
Friday 2/5 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Friday 2/5 @ gallery12
Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal...
Friday 2/5 @ 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....
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
Friday 2/5 @ Odeon Swiss Cottage
In Tovarisch, I am not dead, documentarian Stuart Urban turns his camera on his father, Garri Urban. The elder man escaped...
Friday 2/5 @ Proud Central
Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of...
Friday 2/5 @ The Cochrane Theatre
Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ Tate Britain
Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ Magnum Print Room
Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ Camden Arts Centre
In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive...
Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Friday 2/5 @ Hayward Gallery
With all of the protests and civil unrest going on, 1968 wasn't the best year to take a trip to Paris....
Friday 2/5 @ Barbican
Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work to date as part of the Barbican bite08 series. Featuring...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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....
Friday 2/5 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ Hales Gallery
Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ Southbank Centre
With talk of food miles and free-range vs organic never far from the headlines, slow food has truly come into its...
Friday 2/5 @ The Old Cinema
West London antiques emporium and former picture palace the Old Cinema exchanges old masters for young talent this weekend, when it...
Alvin Langdon Coburn and Jane England
Friday 2/5 @ Ancient & Modern
Diminutive Whitecross Street gallery Ancient & Modern stage eccentric exhibitions that honour their name. In that tradition, the Alvin Langdon Coburn...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ Transition Gallery
The bicentenary of the prince of dark literature, Edgar Allen Poe, marks a central concern in the work of the two...
Friday 2/5 @ Design Museum
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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....
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Friday 2/5 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
Friday 2/5 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Friday 2/5 @ 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...
