Events on Friday, June 6
Friday 6/6 @ The Social
Funk and hip-hop collective Breakin' Bread take over the Social as the hosts with the most for their monthly residency. The...
Friday 6/6 @ The Golden Jubilee Boat
Independent breakbeat label Passenger Records hijack a Thames-cruising vessel for the night, in order to smash a champagne bottle over Feeling...
Friday 6/6 @ East Village
New York DJ/producer Quentin Harris has done more than his fair share to sustain the art of deep, soulful house. With...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/6 @ Bar Vinyl
PYMCA may be the only photo agency in London that specialises exclusively in youth and music culture — small wonder its...
Friday 6/6 @ Hauser & Wirth
It's impressive that figurative sculptor Hans Josephsohn is still active in his practice at age 87 — and more so that...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Novas Contemporary Urban Centre
In this age of eco-awareness, we're all about the recycling thing — especially when the waste is transformed into something as...
Friday 6/6 @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Southbank's new dance commission, Reading Room, brings together some of the most talented players in the realm of the arts....
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ FA Projects
The four Hungarian painters featured in this exhibition have all witnessed their fair share of sociopolitical upheaval, having lived through Communism,...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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...
Friday 6/6 @ HOST Gallery
Adam Hinton's latest photography series depicts Shanghai's aggressively productive capitalist society. Lovin' It takes the metropolis' fixation with commodity and consumerism...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Grenade Gallery
The Grenade Art Collective, a group of eight urban artists, have taken refuge from the grimy walls of London's streets and...
as the mother of a brown boy...
Friday 6/6 @ Toynbee Studios
Shortlisted for Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression Award at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as the mother of a brown boy......
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Various locations
This expansive festival celebrates 1968's pivotal role in shaping the world as we know it with a rich slate of events,...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Tate Modern
Featuring 350 influential works that span from the 19th century to the current day, the Tate Modern's expansive exhibition explores the...
Friday 6/6 @ 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...
Contemporary Art from Venezuela
Friday 6/6 @ Maddox Arts Gallery
The Maddox Gallery presents the work of seven Venezuelans whose abstract works and landscapes present two opposing stances on the last...
Friday 6/6 @ Alan Cristea Gallery
Australian sound artist and photographer Paul Schütze exhibits a dazzling set of images at the Alan Cristea Gallery. Twilight Science sees...
Friday 6/6 @ Maureen Paley
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Maureen Paley for his sixth show. After Tillmans won the Turner Prize in 2000, the artist's...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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...
Friday 6/6 @ Somerset House
Exploring the enduring love affair between two creative entities, Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture hits Somerset House's...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ National Theatre
In 1934, some enlightened colliery men in Woodhorn, Northumberland, formed an evening class on art appreciation. The group subsequently took up...
Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Tate Modern
Now that the sun's finally made an appearance, wandering around a gallery may not be the first thing on your mind...
The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Mummery + Schnelle
Hervé Ingrand's La Découverte du Cabinet de Dessins (The Discovery of the Cabinet of Drawings) takes over Mummery + Schnelle for...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Nelly Duff
Dutch painter/tattoo artist Angelique Houtkamp's designs are more Amy Winehouse than David Beckham, drawing from retro motifs like swallows, hearts, roses,...
Friday 6/6 @ 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...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Natural History Museum
Nothing says "summer is here" like butterflies — just the sight of them fluttering around the park is enough to send...
Friday 6/6 @ The Shop
The Whitechapel populates a disparate collection of East London venues as part of ongoing art project The Street; since March, artists...
Friday 6/6 @ Ferreira Projects
British-Swiss artist Charlotte Hopkins Hall's solo London debut explores the workings of the human mind — the title The Thinking Thing...
Friday 6/6 @ 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...
Friday 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ 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 6/6 @ Various locations
New-music festival City Showcase returns for its sixth year with a plethora of gigs and workshops. Monday sees two music-industry talks...
