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Art: Photography
Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent
Wednesday 4 June (11am–6pm) @ Proud Galleries More times »
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It's good to see Proud Galleries opening their new Camden home in a suitably rock 'n roll way. Taking an up-close and personal look at... View details »
Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent

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Free Range 2008
Wednesday 4 June @ The Old Truman Brewery More times »
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Following on the success of last year's Free Range exhibition, the art and design showcase — the largest of its kind in the UK and... View details »
Free Range 2008
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Blood on Paper
Wednesday 4 June (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
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This new exhibition at the V&A offers visual art reworkings and interpretations of the humble paperback. The works on display range from large-scale installations to... View details »
Blood on Paper
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Elizabethan Flagons
Wednesday 4 June (10am–5:30pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
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The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad. Stroll down memory lane... View details »
Elizabethan Flagons
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Jazz in London
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
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Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in the music business during... View details »
Jazz in London
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A Century of Olympic Posters
Wednesday 4 June (10am–5:45pm) @ Museum of Childhood More times »
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After the recent debacle with our city's own 2012 Olympic logo, you might be tempted to dismiss this little gem of a show, but it... View details »
A Century of Olympic Posters
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Listening Post
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ The Science Museum More times »
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Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the Science Museum. Asking "What... View details »
Listening Post
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Liliane Lijn
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery More times »
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Liliane Lijn's fascination with cosmic forces continues with Stardust. The kinetic artist explores the relationship between space and time by using light, sound and movement... View details »
Liliane Lijn
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Ryan Gander
Wednesday 4 June (noon–6pm) @ South London Gallery More times »
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Some may spend their gap year soul-searching (that is, aimlessly wandering the globe or lolling about in a drunken stupor). But when Ryan Gander took... View details »
Ryan Gander
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Clare Barclay
Wednesday 4 June (10am–9pm) @ Camden Arts Centre More times »
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In her solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre this month, Glaswegian installation artist Claire Barclay displays an array of deliciously subversive creations that teeter on... View details »
Clare Barclay
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Hans Josephsohn
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ Hauser & Wirth More times »
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It's impressive that figurative sculptor Hans Josephsohn is still active in his practice at age 87 — and more so that his new works are... View details »
Hans Josephsohn
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Brick Lane Bike Polo
Wednesday 4 June (7pm) @ Brick Lane Polo More times »
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Thanks to the invention of bike polo, carefully groomed horses are no longer a prerequisite for a quick chukka. There may be fewer fair-bonneted young... View details »
Brick Lane Bike Polo
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Running Late
Wednesday 4 June (11am–6pm) @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
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Running Late, an unlikely collaboration between the Photographers' Gallery and Cuts hair salon, doesn't include snaps of hair being swept up or portraits of bad... View details »
Running Late
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Rob Ryan
Wednesday 4 June (11am–6pm) @ Tatty Devine More times »
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Master papercutter Rob Ryan is the king of collaboration — he's produced an accessories collection for Paul Smith, a dress for Vogue, a Christmas window... View details »
Rob Ryan
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Street Art
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
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Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind — fortunately, the Tate... View details »
Street Art
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Adam Hinton
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ HOST Gallery More times »
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Adam Hinton's latest photography series depicts Shanghai's aggressively productive capitalist society. Lovin' It takes the metropolis' fixation with commodity and consumerism and pits it against... View details »
Adam Hinton
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Laura Buckley & Alexis Harding
Wednesday 4 June (noon–5pm) @ Bruuns Bazaar More times »
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Laura Buckley and Alexis Harding's collection reduces the boundaries between art and artifice, between media and space. Respectively producing video installation and the more traditional... View details »
Laura Buckley & Alexis Harding
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Paul Schütze
Wednesday 4 June (10am–5:30pm) @ Alan Cristea Gallery More times »
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Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees Schütze at his best;... View details »
Paul Schütze
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Contemporary Art from Venezuela
Wednesday 4 June (11am–7pm) @ Maddox Arts Gallery More times »
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The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last century's obsession with modernism.... View details »
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
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Flashy & Trashy
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ Novas Contemporary Urban Centre More times »
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In this age of eco-awareness, we're all about the recycling thing — especially when the waste is transformed into something as aesthetically pleasing as this... View details »
Flashy & Trashy
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Michael Samuels
Wednesday 4 June (11am–6pm) @ Rokeby More times »
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Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking an experimental approach to... View details »
Michael Samuels
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China Landscape
Wednesday 4 June (10am–5:30pm) @ British Museum More times »
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Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the horticultural preferences of the... View details »
China Landscape
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Antti Laitinen
Wednesday 4 June (noon–6pm) @ Nettie Horn More times »
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Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video, photography and installation work.... View details »
Antti Laitinen
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The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
Wednesday 4 June (11am–7pm) @ Proud Central More times »
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall. Such is the sentiment provoked by Ethan Russell's photographs of the Rolling Stones' infamous 1969 US tour,... View details »
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
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Charlotte Hopkins Hall
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ Ferreira Projects More times »
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British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing comes from a phrase... View details »
Charlotte Hopkins Hall
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Angaza Afrika
Wednesday 4 June (12:30–5:30pm) @ October Gallery More times »
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If you can't afford a holiday this summer, transport yourself to another place with Angaza Afrika (Look Around Africa), a showcase of some of the... View details »
Angaza Afrika
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Jake & Dinos Chapman
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ White Cube Mason's Yard More times »
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BritArt's most infamous double act (not counting the duo's former bosses Gilbert & George) returns with a much-anticipated show. Exact details of the exhibition have... View details »
Jake & Dinos Chapman
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Pitmen Painters
Wednesday 4 June @ National Theatre More times »
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In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up painting, drawing and sculpting,... View details »
The Pitmen Painters
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Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ FA Projects More times »
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The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism, its breakdown and the... View details »
Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow
Art: Photography
Wildstyles
Wednesday 4 June (11:30am–11pm) @ Bar Vinyl More times »
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PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its effortlessly cool shows are... View details »
Wildstyles
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Bernd Krauss
Wednesday 4 June (11am–6pm) @ The Shop More times »
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The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists and curators have been... View details »
Bernd Krauss
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Fernando Casasempere
Wednesday 4 June @ The Economist Plaza More times »
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The Economist and the Contemporary Art Society have teamed up to bring sculpture to the heart of the city. For the next three months, London-based... View details »
Fernando Casasempere
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Hervé Ingrand
Wednesday 4 June (10am–6pm) @ Mummery + Schnelle More times »
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Hervé Ingrand's La Découverte du Cabinet de Dessins (The Discovery of the Cabinet of Drawings) takes over Mummery + Schnelle for the next few months,... View details »
Hervé Ingrand
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Wednesday 4 June (11am–6pm) @ Maureen Paley More times »
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Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his sixth show. After Tillmans won the Turner Prize in 2000, the artist's profile skyrocketed and his... View details »
Wolfgang Tillmans
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Ruth Orkin
Wednesday 4 June (noon–6pm) @ Michael Hoppen Gallery More times »
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Ruth Orkin wryly described her half-century love affair with the camera as "making people look at what I want them to look at". The daughter... View details »
Ruth Orkin
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Tom Milnes
Wednesday 4 June (noon–6pm) @ Ferreira Projects More times »
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Tom Milnes uses his residency at the Gallery Studio to cultivate a strange collection of "culturally redundant audio material". Walkmen, new-age music, and relaxation tapes... View details »
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Plant Room
Wednesday 4 June @ Plant Room More times »
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Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a neglected corner of N1's... View details »
Plant Room