Events on Wednesday, June 18
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- Music: Classical
- Fabio Zanon
- @ Fulham Palace
- This evening, Brazilian classical guitarist Fabio Zanon fills Fulham Palace's gardens with his wide-ranging technical trickery. Zanon blends a studied approach... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Midnight Juggernauts
- @ ICA
- Aussie trio Midnight Juggernauts are, by-and-large, an unknown quantity here in the UK, but their epic European tour will change that.... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Atmosphere
- @ KOKO
- Tonight, veteran US duo Atmosphere — aka rapper Slug and DJ/producer Ant, the backpacker's Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff — draw... 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 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: Architecture/Design
- John McAslan + Partners
- @ Dreamspace Gallery
- Londoners hear plenty about graduate work in the fields of fashion, art and design, but architecture and engineering go virtually unmentioned.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Roger Hooper
- @ the.gallery@oxo
- Inspired by Sir David Attenborough's early nature documentaries and his own extensive work for the World Wildlife Fund, photographer Roger Hooper... 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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- 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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- 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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- John Hoyland
- @ Nevill Keating McIlroy
- John Hoyland is often compared to Mark Rothko for the way he uses bold blocks of colour; but the Sheffield-born painter's... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- Ruth Orkin
- @ 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... 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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- Daniela Schönbächler
- @ Riflemaker Gallery
- Awaiting your contemplation, Murano-based artist Daniela Schönbächler's work is in situ in Soho's former gun factory. Schönbächler brings a fragment of... 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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- Plant Room
- @ Plant Room
- Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a... View details »
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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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- Art: Photography
- Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tom Hunter
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Sex and the City: The Movie
- @ The Electric Cinema
- Faithful followers of the Emmy Award-winning series, rejoice — the long-anticipated feature-length Sex and the City film has finally arrived, and... View details »
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- Damian Elwes
- @ Lefevre Fine Art
- Damian Elwes presents a series of portraits that do more than just represent a person on canvas. The artist depicts the... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- The Psychology of Fear
- @ 198
- At her solo show at Herne Hill's 198, Iran-born UK-based artist Maria Kheirkhah confronts the rise of fear in modern society... View details »
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- Meltdown
- @ Southbank Centre
- It's not often that a festival attracts more attention for its curators than its performers, but that's long been the case... View details »
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- Mona Hatoum
- @ Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
- British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum's show at the Parasol Unit includes a decade's worth of work, giving viewers an opportunity to engage... View details »
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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Fair
- Summer Exhibition 2008
- @ 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... View details »
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- Piers Jackson
- @ T1 + 2
- British artist (and former Jade Jagger beau) Piers Jackson unveils Optica — a collection of works two years in the making... 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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- Art: Photography
- Blaize Simon
- @ Calvert Avenue
- London-born photographer Blaize Simon returns to the capital for a month-long show stretching the length of Shoreditch's Calvert Avenue. Best-known for... View details »
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- Bob Dylan
- @ Halcyon Gallery
- If you think that being one of the world's greatest musicians is talent enough, think again — this exhibition of Bob... View details »
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- Viktor & Rolf
- @ Barbican Centre
- About as far-removed from traditional fashion houses as possible, Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have a surreal sense of... 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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- Refugee Week
- @ Various locations
- First held in 1998, Refugee Week returns with a jam-packed lineup of shows, exhibitions and conferences celebrating the diverse contributions that... 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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- Music: Classical
- Il trovatore
- @ Holland Park
- Don your glad rags and head Holland Park way, where the annual season of outdoor opera kicks off with Giuseppe Verdi's... View details »
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- Lip-Gloss and Lacquer
- @ Spring Projects
- Lip-Gloss and Lacquer's seven artists take on fashion, celebrity and commodification in the glamour industry. Laura Buckley uses video installations of... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- London Festival of Architecture
- @ Various locations
- With an inspired approach to what could have easily descended into standard festival programming, the London Festival of Architecture kicks off... 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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- Gail Pickering
- @ Gasworks
- Artist and filmmaker Gail Pickering isn't one to shy away from haphazard influences, as her current show at Gasworks proves. In... View details »
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- Quintessential
- @ Grenade Gallery
- The Grenade Art Collective, a group of eight urban artists, have taken refuge from the grimy walls of London's streets and... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Miroslav Tichý
- @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
- Czech artist Miroslav Tichý produced most of his oeuvre between 1950 and 1980, but it was not until the summer of... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- David Lean
- @ 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... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Chalk Garden
- @ 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... View details »
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- Abigail Lane
- @ Matches
- Abigail Lane first came to the public's attention 20 years ago as one of the YBAs involved in then Goldsmiths College... 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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