Events on Friday, May 23
Friday 23/5 @ Barbican
Host Viktor Wynd invites you to a night of debauchery and feasting in celebration of St Vitus — the saint of...
Friday 23/5 @ Corsica Studios
Tonight, sample-happy producer Daedelus lays down the leftfield grooves from his latest album, Love to Make Music To. The electronic guru's...
Ongoing Events
Friday 23/5 @ 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,...
Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ The Economist Plaza
The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the...
Friday 23/5 @ the.gallery@oxo
A photography exhibition organised in collaboration with aid agency CAFOD, Pure Gold? explores the social and environmental impact of gold mining...
Friday 23/5 @ 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...
Friday 23/5 @ 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...
Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
Friday 23/5 @ FA Projects
The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism,...
Friday 23/5 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Friday 23/5 @ 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...
Friday 23/5 @ 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...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ 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...
Friday 23/5 @ Tate Modern
If you're one of the few not leaving town for May's final Bank Holiday, there's no need to fear boredom: the...
Friday 23/5 @ Rokeby
Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking...
Friday 23/5 @ 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...
Friday 23/5 @ 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...
Friday 23/5 @ Air Gallery
In his latest West End exhibition, Dorian Ker presents a witty artistic dialogue with 19th-century Russian modernist Kasimir Malevich. Ker's large...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ Various locations
This expansive festival celebrates 1968's pivotal role in shaping the world as we know it with a rich slate of events,...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ Institut Français
If you have even a passing interest in world cinema, the Institut Francais' annual Mosaïques Festival is a must-visit. Now in...
Friday 23/5 @ 176
French curator Vincent Honoré's exhibition at this fabulous NW5 art space explores conceptual art and manipulated media. Past-Forward features two specially...
Friday 23/5 @ Alan Cristea Gallery
Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ Ferreira Projects
British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing...
Friday 23/5 @ Carter Presents
A strangely serene beauty exudes from the putrid destruction and decay of Mark Wright's chaotic paintings. Drawing from ancient folklore, poetry...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ Bar Vinyl
PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its...
Friday 23/5 @ Camden Arts Centre
In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive...
Friday 23/5 @ BFI Southbank
Long before Vic and Bob and The Mighty Boosh boys — even predating the Pythons — was N.F. "Wally" Simpson. This...
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
Friday 23/5 @ Maddox Arts Gallery
The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last...
Friday 23/5 @ Tate Modern
Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind...
Friday 23/5 @ The Shop
The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists...
Friday 23/5 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Friday 23/5 @ October Gallery
If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase...
Friday 23/5 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Friday 23/5 @ 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...
Laura Buckley & Alexis Harding
Friday 23/5 @ Bruuns Bazaar
Laura Buckley and Alexis Harding's collection reduces the boundaries between art and artifice, between media and space. Respectively producing video installation...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ Tate Modern
Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the...
Friday 23/5 @ National Theatre
In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up...
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
Friday 23/5 @ Proud Central
Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones'...
Friday 23/5 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
Friday 23/5 @ 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...
Friday 23/5 @ Transition Gallery
The bicentenary of the prince of dark literature, Edgar Allen Poe, marks a central concern in the work of the two...
Friday 23/5 @ 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 23/5 @ 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...
