Events on Tuesday, June 10

The Three Threads Ladies Event

Fashion/Style: Shopping

The Three Threads

Tuesday 10/6 @ The Three Threads

Shoreditch's urban fashion store the Three Threads — named and styled in accordance with the area's brewing history — makes the... 

Plum presents Absentee w/ Hjaltalín and DJ the Boy

Music: Global

Hjaltalín

Tuesday 10/6 @ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen

Iceland is to thank for much of the world's most strange and wonderful sounds. Hjaltalín bring the arctic ethereality typical of... 

Exploding Narrative

Special Event

Exploding Narrative

Tuesday 10/6 @ ICA

Support five new talents in the field of immersive technology as they pitch their ideas for location-based stories, games and educational... 

Florence and the Machine w/ White Williams

Music

Florence and the Machine

Tuesday 10/6 @ 229

Camberwell's Florence gathers her troops for an evening of guttural noise and haunting, blues-tipped vocals. Gritty, barely produced guitar parts and... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Chalk Garden</em>

Theatre

The Chalk Garden

Tuesday 10/6 @ Donmar Warehouse

Enid Bagnold's dark comedy The Chalk Garden kicks off tonight at Donmar Warehouse's not-for-profit theatre. Bagnold, best known for penning Elizabeth... 

Liliane Lijn: <em>Stardust</em>

Art

Liliane Lijn

Tuesday 10/6 @ Riflemaker Gallery

Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using... 

Plant Room

City Gems

Plant Room

Tuesday 10/6 @ Plant Room

Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a... 

Ruth Orkin

Art: Photography

Ruth Orkin

Tuesday 10/6 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery

Ruth Orkin wryly described her half-century love affair with the camera as "making people look at what I want them to... 

Hans Josephsohn

Art

Hans Josephsohn

Tuesday 10/6 @ Hauser & Wirth

It's impressive that figurative sculptor Hans Josephsohn is still active in his practice at age 87 — and more so that... 

Rob Ryan

Art

Rob Ryan

Tuesday 10/6 @ Tatty Devine

Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for... 

Art: Happening

Summer Exhibition 2008

Tuesday 10/6 @ Royal Academy of Arts

With more than £70,000 up for grabs in prize money, including the £25,000 Charles Wollaston Award, the stakes are high at... 

<em>Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book</em>

Art

Blood on Paper

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

Jim Smith

Art

Jim Smith

Tuesday 10/6 @ Coningsby Gallery

Though his name lacks an artist's extravagance, Jim Smith has a unique talent of being able to scrawl funny, yet touching... 

<em>A Century of Olympic Posters</em>

Art

A Century of Olympic Posters

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

Sprint Festival of Performance Art

Performing Arts

Sprint Festival

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

<em>Angaza Afrika: African Art Now </em>

Art

Angaza Afrika

Tuesday 10/6 @ October Gallery

If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase... 

<em>The Story of the Supremes</em>

Art

The Story of the Supremes

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

<em>Wildstyles </em>

Art: Photography

Wildstyles

Tuesday 10/6 @ Bar Vinyl

PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its... 

<em>Amazing Butterflies</em>

City Gems

Amazing Butterflies

Tuesday 10/6 @ Natural History Museum

Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send... 

Michael Samuels: <em>Childstar</em>

Art

Michael Samuels

Tuesday 10/6 @ Rokeby

Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking... 

Zsolt Bodoni, Roland Horvath, Peter Sudar and Dorottya Szabo: <em>Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow</em>

Art

Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow

Tuesday 10/6 @ FA Projects

The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism,... 

Walter Hanlon: <em>Jazz in London</em>

Art: Photography

Jazz in London

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

<em>Pygmalion</em>

Theatre

Pygmalion

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

<em>Listening Post</em>

Art

Listening Post

Tuesday 10/6 @ The Science Museum

Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the... 

David Lean

Film

David Lean

Tuesday 10/6 @ National Film Theatre

Although best remembered for his star-studded, Oscar-winning epics Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), director... 

<em>Nought to Sixty</em>

Art

Nought to Sixty

Tuesday 10/6 @ ICA

The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,... 

<em>Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography </em>

Art: Photography

Street & Studio

Tuesday 10/6 @ Tate Modern

Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the... 

In Focus feat. <em>Running Late</em>

Art: Photography

Running Late

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

Grenade Art Collective: <em>Quintessential</em>

Art

Quintessential

Tuesday 10/6 @ Grenade Gallery

The Grenade Art Collective, a group of eight urban artists, have taken refuge from the grimy walls of London's streets and... 

<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>

Art

For Your Eyes Only

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

Damian Elwes: <em>Creative Spaces: The Studio of Dal&iacute;, Kahlo, Picasso and Matisse</em>

Art

Damian Elwes

Tuesday 10/6 @ Lefevre Fine Art

Damian Elwes presents a series of portraits that do more than just represent a person on canvas. The artist depicts the... 

<em>Richard Rogers & Architects:</em><em> </em><em>From the House to the City</em> <em> </em>

Art

Richard Rogers & Architects

Tuesday 10/6 @ Design Museum

Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To... 

Ashington Group: <em>The Pitmen Painters</em>

Theatre

The Pitmen Painters

Tuesday 10/6 @ National Theatre

In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up... 

<em>From Seeing to Showing </em>

Art: Photography

From Seeing to Showing

Tuesday 10/6 @ Red Gate Gallery

This exhibition is the culmination of a 2007 youth-photography project, for which community-education programme Zoom In encouraged young Londoners to get... 

Clare Barclay: <em>Shifting Ground</em>

Art

Clare Barclay

Tuesday 10/6 @ Camden Arts Centre

In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive... 

Art

Tom Milnes

Tuesday 10/6 @ Ferreira Projects

Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age... 

<em>Street Art</em>

Art

Street Art

Tuesday 10/6 @ Tate Modern

Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind... 

<em>Double Perspective: Contemporary Art from Venezuela</em>

Art

Contemporary Art from Venezuela

Tuesday 10/6 @ Maddox Arts Gallery

The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last... 

Jake & Dinos Chapman: <em>If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be</em>

Art

Jake & Dinos Chapman

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth

Art

Elizabethan Flagons

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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.... 

Free Range 2008

Art

Free Range 2008

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

China Design Now

Art

China Design Now

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

Fernando Casasempere: <em>The Thought-Provoking Machine</em>

City Gems

Fernando Casasempere

Tuesday 10/6 @ The Economist Plaza

The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the... 

Ryan Gander: <em>Heralded as the New Black</em>

Art

Ryan Gander

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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... 

Tom Hunter: <em>Are You Being Served?</em>

Art

Tom Hunter

Tuesday 10/6 @ Museum of Childhood

Exploring the ever-changing face of the trade that in east London, Tom Hunter's portraits document the varied mechants and wares of... 

<em>Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent </em>

Art: Photography

Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent

Tuesday 10/6 @ Proud Galleries

It's good to see Proud Galleries opening their new Camden home in a suitably rock 'n roll way. Taking an up-close... 

Kew at the British Museum presents <em>China Landscape</em>

City Gems

China Landscape

Tuesday 10/6 @ British Museum

Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the... 

Ethan Russell: <em>Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour</em>

Art: Photography

The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour

Tuesday 10/6 @ Proud Central

Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones'... 

Herv&eacute; Ingrand: <em>La D</em>&eacute;<em>couverte du Cabinet de Dessins</em>

Art

Hervé Ingrand

Tuesday 10/6 @ Mummery + Schnelle

Hervé Ingrand's La Découverte du Cabinet de Dessins (The Discovery of the Cabinet of Drawings) takes over Mummery + Schnelle for... 

<em>Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture</em>

Art

Skin + Bones

Tuesday 10/6 @ Somerset House

Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's... 

<em>King Lear </em>

Theatre

King Lear

Tuesday 10/6 @ 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...