Events on Wednesday, May 7
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Wednesday 7/5 @ The National Gallery
Tonight's debate brings together a panel of high-profile cultural figures to hash out the controversial issue of public art. Broadcaster Joan...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 7/5 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Jerwood Space
For its second annual exhibition, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation asked three well-respected artists and academics to choose 20 promising recent art-school...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Whitechapel Art Gallery
Berlin is home and muse to some of Europe's most intriguing visual artists, including Geneva-born Daniel Pflumm. A keen musician and...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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,...
Wednesday 7/5 @ The Old Cinema
West London antiques emporium and former picture palace the Old Cinema exchanges old masters for young talent this weekend, when it...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Flowers East
Ken Currie investigates the fine line separating civilisation from savagery. With its near-chiaroscuro depictions of horses, mating elephants and human grotesques,...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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....
Wednesday 7/5 @ The Novello Theatre
ZooNation's revamped Stephen Sondheim musical comes to London after a hit season at the Edinburgh Fringe. This pop-culture quest follows two...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Design Museum
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Hales Gallery
Bob and Roberta Smith (the dual alter egos of artist Patrick Brill) bring us I Am a Living Sign, a selection...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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....
Wednesday 7/5 @ Covent Garden Market Piazza
The bizarre weather may suggest the contrary, but spring has definitely sprung. To celebrate, Covent Garden Market is hosting this festival...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/5 @ National Theatre
When writer Joan Didion's husband died suddenly at the end of 2003, in the midst of their only daughter's hospitalisation with...
Wednesday 7/5 @ National Portrait Gallery
Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Hampstead Theatre
Get lost in the drama of the Bezukhovs and Bolkonskys with Shared Experience's stage adaptation of Tolstoy's magnum opus. Adapted by...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Carter Presents
A strangely serene beauty exudes from the putrid destruction and decay of Mark Wright's chaotic paintings. Drawing from ancient folklore, poetry...
Wednesday 7/5 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Wednesday 7/5 @ The Street Project Base
They may navigate us through our lives, but have you ever considered London's streets as the context for artistic interrogation? Over...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Hamiltons Gallery
Ever since the publication of her book Private in 2003, Alison Jackson has been holding a mirror up to us and...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Sadler's Wells
The boyz in question here are Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, who controversially bowed out of the Royal Ballet in 1998...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Odeon Swiss Cottage
In Tovarisch, I am not dead, documentarian Stuart Urban turns his camera on his father, Garri Urban. The elder man escaped...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Magnum Print Room
Photographer Steve McCurry — whose 1984 shot of a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes has been etched into the...
Wednesday 7/5 @ The Cochrane Theatre
Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features...
Wednesday 7/5 @ The Agency Gallery
Experimental Icelandic band Sigur Rós have always mixed music and art to great effect. Here, art takes the lead with Riceboy...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Spring Projects
For Deliverance, multimedia artist Mat Collishaw creates and deconstructs disaster scenes through a method of high-contrast, split-second projection. Collishaw applies coats...
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
Wednesday 7/5 @ Maddox Arts Gallery
The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last...
Wednesday 7/5 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Wednesday 7/5 @ The Arts Theatre
The Arts Theatre premieres Tell Me… Lies, a powerful new drama by French playwright Carole-Anne Le Foll. The story follows a...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Various locations
This expansive festival celebrates 1968's pivotal role in shaping the world as we know it with a rich slate of events,...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Proud Central
Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Camden Arts Centre
In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive...
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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
Wednesday 7/5 @ Hayward Gallery
With all of the protests and civil unrest going on, 1968 wasn't the best year to take a trip to Paris....
Wednesday 7/5 @ 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...
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Wednesday 7/5 @ Barbican
In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators"...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Blue Elephant Theatre
Tal Jakubowiczova is both playwright and director for this physical-theatre performance by the Shift Theatre ensemble. The piece follows a woman...
Wednesday 7/5 @ Tate Modern
It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively...
