Events on Saturday, May 31
Saturday 31/5 @ British Museum
This Saturday afternoon, the British Museum presents a vibrant and most worthy celebration of Africa and its peoples. Join in to...
Savage Legends vs Nuke Them All
Saturday 31/5 @ Cable Street Studios
The Savage Legends party launch is perfect for those who can't make up their minds when they go out: it mixes...
Saturday 31/5 @ Soho Revue Bar
Cabaret show the Wam Bam Club takes place every last Sunday of the month in the historically appropriate environs of the...
Saturday 31/5 @ Cargo
Cargo's new NyLO night is sure to perk up Londoners weary of the déjà vu of our electronic-music scene, which sometimes...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 31/5 @ f-art
For his debut solo show, London-based artist Dicky Graham created ten sculptures of dog faces from scrap metal and found objects...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ The Economist Plaza
The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the...
Saturday 31/5 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Saturday 31/5 @ Hauser & Wirth
It's impressive that figurative sculptor Hans Josephsohn is still active in his practice at age 87 — and more so that...
Saturday 31/5 @ Rokeby
Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using...
Saturday 31/5 @ Maureen Paley
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his sixth show. After Tillmans won the Turner Prize in 2000, the artist's...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Laura Buckley & Alexis Harding
Saturday 31/5 @ Bruuns Bazaar
Laura Buckley and Alexis Harding's collection reduces the boundaries between art and artifice, between media and space. Respectively producing video installation...
Saturday 31/5 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
Saturday 31/5 @ Various locations
This expansive festival celebrates 1968's pivotal role in shaping the world as we know it with a rich slate of events,...
Saturday 31/5 @ LUX 28
In celebration of the opening of LUX's new temporary exhibition space, LUX 28, artist and activist Gregg Bordowitz makes a rare...
Saturday 31/5 @ Camden Arts Centre
In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive...
Saturday 31/5 @ Tate Modern
Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind...
Saturday 31/5 @ 176
French curator Vincent Honoré's exhibition at this fabulous NW5 art space explores conceptual art and manipulated media. Past-Forward features two specially...
Saturday 31/5 @ Ferreira Projects
British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ Nettie Horn
Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video,...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ Bar Vinyl
PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its...
Saturday 31/5 @ Tate Modern
Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the...
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
Saturday 31/5 @ Maddox Arts Gallery
The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last...
Saturday 31/5 @ Alan Cristea Gallery
Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees...
Saturday 31/5 @ October Gallery
If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase...
Saturday 31/5 @ The Shop
The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists...
Saturday 31/5 @ Mummery + Schnelle
Hervé Ingrand's La Découverte du Cabinet de Dessins (The Discovery of the Cabinet of Drawings) takes over Mummery + Schnelle for...
Saturday 31/5 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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
Saturday 31/5 @ FA Projects
The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism,...
Saturday 31/5 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Saturday 31/5 @ Hayward Gallery
With all of the protests and civil unrest going on, 1968 wasn't the best year to take a trip to Paris....
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
Saturday 31/5 @ Proud Central
Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones'...
Saturday 31/5 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ Transition Gallery
The bicentenary of the prince of dark literature, Edgar Allen Poe, marks a central concern in the work of the two...
Saturday 31/5 @ Design Museum
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To...
Saturday 31/5 @ National Theatre
In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up...
Saturday 31/5 @ Ferreira Projects
Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ the.gallery@oxo
A photography exhibition organised in collaboration with aid agency CAFOD, Pure Gold? explores the social and environmental impact of gold mining...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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...
Saturday 31/5 @ Carter Presents
A strangely serene beauty exudes from the putrid destruction and decay of Mark Wright's chaotic paintings. Drawing from ancient folklore, poetry...
Saturday 31/5 @ 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....
