Events on Friday, May 30

<em>Skidoo</em> (1968)
Month_05 Friday Day_30
More Flavor: Party
Skidoo
@ Curzon Soho
Skidoo is director Otto Preminger's acid-soaked send-up of both mobster films and free-loving, late-'60s hippie culture. An all-star cast, including Mickey...  View details »
The Art of Confession<em> </em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
More Flavor: Party
The Art of Confession
@ Victoria and Albert Museum
Held in conjunction with Bad Idea magazine, tonight's event is all about opening your heart and spilling the beans. Get something...  View details »
Free
Flomotion feat. Nick Luscombe
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Music: DJ
Flomotion
@ The Hayward Concrete
Resonance FM regular Nick Luscombe brings out his special brand of electronica, providing the perfect opportunity to both unwind after the...  View details »
Free

Ongoing Events

<em>Street Art</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Street Art
@ Tate Modern
Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Laura Buckley & Alexis Harding
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Laura Buckley & Alexis Harding
@ Bruuns Bazaar
Laura Buckley and Alexis Harding's collection reduces the boundaries between art and artifice, between media and space. Respectively producing video installation...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Wolfgang Tillmans
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Wolfgang Tillmans
@ Maureen Paley
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his sixth show. After Tillmans won the Turner Prize in 2000, the artist's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Pygmalion</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
Performing Arts: Theatre
Pygmalion
@ The Old Vic
George Bernard Shaw's rags-to-riches tale was made famous by George Cukor's 1964 film musical My Fair Lady, which starred Rex Harrison...  View details »
Ongoing
Dicky Graham:<em> ouR Mutts</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Dicky Graham
@ f-art
For his debut solo show, London-based artist Dicky Graham created ten sculptures of dog faces from scrap metal and found objects...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>King Lear </em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
Paul Sch&uuml;tze: <em>Twilight Science</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Paul Schütze
@ Alan Cristea Gallery
Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Richard Rogers & Architects:</em><em> </em><em>From the House to the City</em> <em> </em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Sprint Festival of Performance Art
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
Performing Arts
Sprint Festival
@ Camden People's Theatre
The jewel-like Camden People's Theatre, loomed over by the Euston Tower block, is the spiritual home of London's experimental-theatre and performance-art...  View details »
Ongoing
Charlotte Hopkins Hall: <em>The Thinking Thing</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Charlotte Hopkins Hall
@ Ferreira Projects
British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Wildstyles </em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Wildstyles
@ Bar Vinyl
PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Herv&eacute; Ingrand: <em>La D</em>&eacute;<em>couverte du Cabinet de Dessins</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Hervé Ingrand
@ Mummery + Schnelle
Hervé Ingrand's La Découverte du Cabinet de Dessins (The Discovery of the Cabinet of Drawings) takes over Mummery + Schnelle for...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Rob Ryan
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Listening Post</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
The Regent
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Ethan Russell: <em>Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
@ Proud Central
Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones'...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Story of the Supremes</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art: Architecture/Design
The Story of the Supremes
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ryan Gander: <em>Heralded as the New Black</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>May 68: Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Nought to Sixty</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Nought to Sixty
@ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...  View details »
Ongoing
Bernd Krauss: <em>The Street</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Bernd Krauss
@ The Shop
The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Free Range 2008
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
Art
Free Range 2008
@ The Old Truman Brewery
Following on the success of last year's Free Range exhibition, the art and design showcase — the largest of its kind...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Amazing Butterflies</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Antti Laitinen: <em>It's My Island</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Antti Laitinen
@ Nettie Horn
Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The City</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Ashington Group: <em>The Pitmen Painters</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Pitmen Painters
@ National Theatre
In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kew at the British Museum presents <em>China Landscape</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
More Flavor: City Gem
China Landscape
@ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Tom Milnes
@ Ferreira Projects
Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
China Design Now
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Deej Fabyc: <em>Cat House Camp</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Cat House Camp
@ Toynbee Studios
Artist Deej Fabyc's latest show involves her napping inside a hut that has Andy Warhol's Sleep (a five-and-a-half-hour film of New...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Zsolt Bodoni, Roland Horvath, Peter Sudar and Dorottya Szabo: <em>Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
@ FA Projects
The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
In Focus feat. <em>Running Late</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Café on the Hill
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Michael Samuels: <em>Childstar</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Michael Samuels
@ Rokeby
Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Clare Barclay: <em>Shifting Ground</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Haozhan
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
London Fencing Club
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
Hans Josephsohn
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Hans Josephsohn
@ Hauser & Wirth
It's impressive that figurative sculptor Hans Josephsohn is still active in his practice at age 87 — and more so that...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mark Wright
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Mark Wright
@ Carter Presents
A strangely serene beauty exudes from the putrid destruction and decay of Mark Wright's chaotic paintings. Drawing from ancient folklore, poetry...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Pure Gold?</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Pure Gold?
@ the.gallery@oxo
A photography exhibition organised in collaboration with aid agency CAFOD, Pure Gold? explores the social and environmental impact of gold mining...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Adam Hinton: <em>Lovin' It</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Adam Hinton
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Mare Tenebrarum</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
The Fashion in Film Festival: If Looks Could Kill &mdash; Cinema's Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
Film
The Fashion in Film Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Walter Hanlon: <em>Jazz in London</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
All Power to the Imagination! 1968 and Its Legacies
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Flashy & Trashy</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Flashy & Trashy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Gregg Bordowitz: <em>Conflicting Tendencies</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Gregg Bordowitz
@ LUX 28
In celebration of the opening of LUX's new temporary exhibition space, LUX 28, artist and activist Gregg Bordowitz makes a rare...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Century of Olympic Posters</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
A Century of Olympic Posters
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Fernando Casasempere: <em>The Thought-Provoking Machine</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_31
More Flavor: City Gem
Fernando Casasempere
@ The Economist Plaza
The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jake & Dinos Chapman: <em>If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Jake & Dinos Chapman
@ White Cube Mason's Yard
BritArt's most infamous double act (not counting the duo's former bosses Gilbert & George) returns with a much-anticipated show. Exact details...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Peacocks &amp; Pinstripes</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Dan McDermott: <em>Second Focus</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Dan McDermott
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Double Perspective: Contemporary Art from Venezuela</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
@ Maddox Arts Gallery
The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Liliane Lijn: <em>Stardust</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Angaza Afrika: African Art Now </em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Angaza Afrika
@ October Gallery
If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Past-Forward</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
Past-Forward
@ 176
French curator Vincent Honoré's exhibition at this fabulous NW5 art space explores conceptual art and manipulated media. Past-Forward features two specially...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography </em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Street & Studio
@ Tate Modern
Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Adam and Ron Show</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free