Events on Friday, May 30
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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: 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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OngoingFree
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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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
- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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