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Art
Blood on Paper
Monday 26 May (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
Free
This new exhibition at the V&A offers visual art reworkings and interpretations of the humble paperback. The works on display range from large-scale installations to... View details »
Blood on Paper
Art
Elizabethan Flagons
Monday 26 May (10am–5:30pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
Free
The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad. Stroll down memory lane... View details »
Elizabethan Flagons
Art: Photography
Jazz in London
Monday 26 May (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
Free
Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in the music business during... View details »
Jazz in London
Art
A Century of Olympic Posters
Monday 26 May (10am–5:45pm) @ Museum of Childhood More times »
Free
After the recent debacle with our city's own 2012 Olympic logo, you might be tempted to dismiss this little gem of a show, but it... View details »
A Century of Olympic Posters
Art
Listening Post
Monday 26 May (10am–6pm) @ The Science Museum More times »
Free
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the Science Museum. Asking "What... View details »
Listening Post
Art
Liliane Lijn
Monday 26 May (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery More times »
Free
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using light, sound and movement... View details »
Liliane Lijn
Art: Photography
Running Late
Monday 26 May (11am–6pm) @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
Free
Running Late, an unlikely collaboration between the Photographers' Gallery and Cuts hair salon, doesn't include snaps of hair being swept up or portraits of bad... View details »
Running Late
Art
Rob Ryan
Monday 26 May (11am–6pm) @ Tatty Devine More times »
Free
Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for Vogue, a Christmas window... View details »
Rob Ryan
Art
Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Monday 26 May (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery More times »
Free
With all of the protests and civil unrest going on, 1968 wasn't the best year to take a trip to Paris. The Hayward Gallery marks... View details »
Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Art
Street Art
Monday 26 May (10am–6pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
Free
Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind — fortunately, the Tate... View details »
Street Art
Art
Flux-Olympiad
Monday 26 May (10am–5pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
Free
Artist Larry Miller's Flux-Olympiad forms part of the Tate's Long Weekend, a performance and lecture series designed to animate the gallery's static collections. Originally conceived... View details »
Art: Photography
Adam Hinton
Monday 26 May (10am–6pm) @ HOST Gallery More times »
Free
Adam Hinton's latest photography series depicts Shanghai's aggressively productive capitalist society. Lovin' It takes the metropolis' fixation with commodity and consumerism and pits it against... View details »
Adam Hinton
Art
Still Another Place
Monday 26 May (11am–7pm) @ The Crypt More times »
Free
This group show explores the richness and diversity of artists' senses of place. Simon Dawe's dreamy landscapes draw from childhood idylls, whereas Julie Goldsmith's animal... View details »
Art: Photography
Paul Schütze
Monday 26 May (10am–5:30pm) @ Alan Cristea Gallery More times »
Free
Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees Schütze at his best;... View details »
Paul Schütze
Art
Flashy & Trashy
Monday 26 May (10am–6pm) @ Novas Contemporary Urban Centre More times »
Free
In this age of eco-awareness, we're all about the recycling thing — especially when the waste is transformed into something as aesthetically pleasing as this... View details »
Flashy & Trashy
Art
Michael Samuels
Monday 26 May (11am–6pm) @ Rokeby More times »
Free
Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking an experimental approach to... View details »
Michael Samuels
More Flavor: City Gem
China Landscape
Monday 26 May (10am–5:30pm) @ British Museum More times »
Free
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the horticultural preferences of the... View details »
China Landscape
Art: Photography
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
Monday 26 May (11am–7pm) @ Proud Central More times »
Free
Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones' infamous 1969 US tour,... View details »
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
Art
Dan McDermott
Monday 26 May (9am–6pm) @ Alon Zakaim Fine Art More times »
Free
So realistic are Dan McDermott's oil canvases, that if you squint at any of his paintings, you could easily be looking at a photograph or... View details »
Dan McDermott
Art: Photography
Pure Gold?
Monday 26 May (11am–6pm) @ the.gallery@oxo More times »
Free
A photography exhibition organised in collaboration with aid agency CAFOD, Pure Gold? explores the social and environmental impact of gold mining on the impoverished societies... View details »
Pure Gold?
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Charlotte Hopkins Hall
Monday 26 May (10am–6pm) @ Ferreira Projects More times »
Free
British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing comes from a phrase... View details »
Charlotte Hopkins Hall
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Pitmen Painters
Monday 26 May @ National Theatre More times »
Free
In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up painting, drawing and sculpting,... View details »
The Pitmen Painters
Art: Photography
Wildstyles
Monday 26 May (11:30am–11pm) @ Bar Vinyl More times »
Free
PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its effortlessly cool shows are... View details »
Wildstyles
More Flavor: City Gem
Fernando Casasempere
Monday 26 May @ The Economist Plaza More times »
Free
The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the next three months, London-based... View details »
Fernando Casasempere
Art
Tom Milnes
Monday 26 May (noon–6pm) @ Ferreira Projects More times »
Free
Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age music, and relaxation tapes... View details »