Events on Friday, June 20
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
Friday 20/6 @ The Foundling Museum
Historian/sexpert Hallie Rubenhold discusses the 18th-century guide to London prostitutes, which was a best seller before best sellers really existed. Guiltily...
Friday 20/6 @ Barbican
Ambient samples pepper 21-year-old Ólafur Arnalds' mournful orchestral arrangements and fragile, shoegazey moments of indie. His album Variations of Static weaves...
Friday 20/6 @ The Courtauld Gallery
Croatian-born, London-based multimedia artist Margareta Kern presents a new performance project at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Kern's artistic resourcefulness and...
Ongoing Events
Friday 20/6 @ Fashion and Textile Museum
Style icon Wallis Simpson once said, "When the little black dress is right, there is nothing else to wear in its...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ Plant Room
Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a...
Friday 20/6 @ Regent's Park
Gastronomes of all breeds are set to swarm Regent's Park over the coming days, when Taste of London hits town. Sample...
Friday 20/6 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ Riflemaker Gallery
Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using...
Friday 20/6 @ Hauser & Wirth
It's impressive that figurative sculptor Hans Josephsohn is still active in his practice at age 87 — and more so that...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ The Shop
The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists...
Friday 20/6 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Friday 20/6 @ Various locations
First held in 1998, Refugee Week returns with a jam-packed lineup of shows, exhibitions and conferences celebrating the diverse contributions that...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ f-art
For his debut solo show, London-based artist Dicky Graham created ten sculptures of dog faces from scrap metal and found objects...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ Dreamspace Gallery
Londoners hear plenty about graduate work in the fields of fashion, art and design, but architecture and engineering go virtually unmentioned....
Friday 20/6 @ Barbican
About as far-removed from traditional fashion houses as possible, Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have a surreal sense of...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
London Festival of Architecture
Friday 20/6 @ Various locations
With an inspired approach to what could have easily descended into standard festival programming, the London Festival of Architecture kicks off...
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
Friday 20/6 @ Proud Central
Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones'...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ Green Note
Green Note Café presents the Festival of Latin Music, bringing Cuban grooves and salsa beats to Camden. Events get underway courtesy...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ Matches
Abigail Lane first came to the public's attention 20 years ago as one of the YBAs involved in then Goldsmiths College...
Friday 20/6 @ T1 + 2
British artist (and former Jade Jagger beau) Piers Jackson unveils Optica — a collection of works two years in the making...
Friday 20/6 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ Delaye Saltoun
One of British pop art's lesser-known figures, Colin Self is described by fellow artist Peter Blake as a "forgotten hero". Delaye...
Friday 20/6 @ Tate Modern
Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the...
The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown
Friday 20/6 @ Toynbee Studios
The choreography and design team Bock & Vincenzi sets Fritz Lang's deranged Dr. Mabuse loose from the world of celluloid, rendering...
Friday 20/6 @ National Theatre
In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ October Gallery
If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
Friday 20/6 @ FA Projects
The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism,...
Friday 20/6 @ Nettie Horn
Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video,...
Friday 20/6 @ Design Museum
Modern, functional design has long been synonymous with architect Richard Rogers, who's stamped his distinctive imprint on buildings throughout Europe. To...
Friday 20/6 @ Lefevre Fine Art
Damian Elwes presents a series of portraits that do more than just represent a person on canvas. The artist depicts the...
Friday 20/6 @ Ferreira Projects
Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age...
Friday 20/6 @ Camden Arts Centre
In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive...
Friday 20/6 @ Rokeby
Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ The Economist Plaza
The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the...
Friday 20/6 @ Holland Park
Don your glad rags and head Holland Park way, where the annual season of outdoor opera kicks off with Giuseppe Verdi's...
Friday 20/6 @ Limoncello Gallery
On display at Hoxton's new Limoncello Gallery are playfully quirky mixed-media works from Matthew Harrison. The young designer pays homage to...
Friday 20/6 @ Grenade Gallery
The Grenade Art Collective, a group of eight urban artists, have taken refuge from the grimy walls of London's streets and...
Friday 20/6 @ Various locations
For a green and cardio-friendly way to tour London's architectural gems, pedal along with the London Festival of Architecture for its...
Friday 20/6 @ Gasworks
Artist and filmmaker Gail Pickering isn't one to shy away from haphazard influences, as her current show at Gasworks proves. In...
Friday 20/6 @ 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....
Friday 20/6 @ Mummery + Schnelle
Hervé Ingrand's La Découverte du Cabinet de Dessins (The Discovery of the Cabinet of Drawings) takes over Mummery + Schnelle for...
Friday 20/6 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Czech artist Miroslav Tichý produced most of his oeuvre between 1950 and 1980, but it was not until the summer of...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ Various locations
Since 1962, the City of London Festival has unfurled its teeming arts and music programme over the summer season, inhabiting indoor...
Friday 20/6 @ 176
French curator Vincent Honoré's exhibition at this fabulous NW5 art space explores conceptual art and manipulated media. Past-Forward features two specially...
Friday 20/6 @ Tate Modern
Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind...
Friday 20/6 @ 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...
Friday 20/6 @ PM Gallery & House
Ealing's PM Gallery presents Solstice, a new video project by London-born artist Neeta Madahar, opening on (you guessed it) the solstice....
