Events on Friday, August 29
French Connection Friday Late: Get Physical
Friday 29/8 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
Tonight a host of artists, designers and athletes get creative with sport in celebration of the V&A's Fashion V Sport exhibition....
Friday 29/8 @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Frock to shock this evening at Royal Vauxhall Tavern's second outing with neo-Weimar cabaret night Kunst. Following a triumphant launch last...
Midnight Movies: Fantastic Planet & Paprika
Friday 29/8 @ Curzon Soho
Midnight Movies dons its anime gloves and gives the choice between the sublime contemporary anime of Satoshi Kon's adaptation of Yasutaka...
Ongoing Events
Friday 29/8 @ Proud Central
Attention country fans: if you couldn't get tickets for Dolly's recent O2 appearance, check out this Johnny Cash photography exhibition instead....
Friday 29/8 @ HOST Gallery
For their first-ever show, Foto8 get together with HOST Gallery to celebrate contemporary photography. The exhibition features an awards ceremony judged...
Friday 29/8 @ 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 29/8 @ Canal Café Theatre
Standnotamazed like to play with our minds. They find magic in the mundane and are intent on returning the art form...
Friday 29/8 @ Asia House
Outstanding photojournalism should bring things that are out of reach into shockingly close range, and Seamus Murphy's exhibition at Asia House...
Friday 29/8 @ Idea Generation Gallery
The photographs of Robert Altman, lensman for Rolling Stone, encapsulate nearly all aspects of the 1960s, from free love and festivals...
Friday 29/8 @ 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 29/8 @ Camden Arts Centre
Turner Prize nominee Anya Gallaccio's impressive new sculpture at the Camden Arts Centre sees her once again harnessing materials from nature,...
Friday 29/8 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Spanning three decades, Joseph Szabo's silver gelatin prints expose life in all its forms on Jones Beach — one of New...
Friday 29/8 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Friday 29/8 @ Various locations
Although only in its second year, the Canary Wharf Film Festival is fast becoming a must-visit for fans of short film....
Friday 29/8 @ Limoncello Gallery
Integrating design with fine art, Gemma Holt's Work on Paper features a functional form of paper (Holt's own "G5") upon which...
Friday 29/8 @ Serpentine Gallery
American artist Richard Prince first achieved notoriety in 1977, when he photographed advertisements (most famously the Marlboro cowboy) and images from...
Friday 29/8 @ Various locations
The Portobello Film Festival is mainstream film's wayward sibling, having offered inimitable independent cinema in W10 since '96. This evening's opening...
Friday 29/8 @ Sadler's Wells
It's been some 50 years since Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's musical update of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet first appeared on...
Friday 29/8 @ The Photographers' Gallery
The process that occurs between a fashion photograph's initial conception and the time when the image appears in a glossy magazine...
Friday 29/8 @ Holland Park Theatre
Pimm's Summerfest offers up a week's worth of hilarity to punters in Holland Park's open-air theatre. An array of comedians perform...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Friday 29/8 @ The Cartoon Museum
What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still...
Friday 29/8 @ Association of Photographers Gallery
At the AOP Open, an expert panel judges the work of amateur snappers against the work of professional photographers. With no...
The Smallest Cinema in the World
Friday 29/8 @ Regent's Park
For Portavilion, a project that puts mobile public art in London's open spaces, Swedish artist Annika Eriksson teamed up with architects...
Friday 29/8 @ 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...
Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance!
Friday 29/8 @ Trolley Gallery
In her first solo exhibition, Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance! artist Isabelle Graeff brings together the obscene and the commonplace...
Friday 29/8 @ Transition Gallery
Tadpoles, bees and eggs are just some of the materials used in an attempt to capture and explode the mundane in...
Friday 29/8 @ White Cube Mason's Yard
White Cube at Mason's Yard plays host to Sarah Morris' Lesser Panda this month. The artist — who calls both New...
Blood Wedding and Petite Rouge
Friday 29/8 @ The Scoop
The Scoop's season of free theatre continues with two plays that perfectly suit the open-air setting of the More London amphitheatre....
Friday 29/8 @ Barbican
Huang Yong Ping's first exhibition in the UK is a satirical diatribe inspired by the Frolic, the flagship vessel of the...
Friday 29/8 @ Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Collection present Skeletons, a gruesome yet fascinating look at London history. Drawing from the Museum of London's collection of...
Friday 29/8 @ ICA
Like a roll call of all persons cool in '60s and '70s America, this short but perfectly formed series of documentaries...
Friday 29/8 @ Royal Festival Hall
Flying monkeys, munchkins and talking trees, oh my — the ruby-slippered Dorothy Gale and her little dog Toto land at the...
Friday 29/8 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Friday 29/8 @ Haunch of Venison
British artist Mat Collishaw's first solo exhibition at Haunch of Venison takes a playful attitude toward visual representation, evoking a child...
Friday 29/8 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Friday 29/8 @ 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 29/8 @ Getty Images Gallery
Contemporary London owes its reputation to its diverse, cosmopolitan residents. London Through a Lens, a collection of photographs from Getty Image's...
Friday 29/8 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
Try as you might, it's next to impossible to recall a time when contemporary sportswear and fashion weren't merrily playing house....
Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow
Friday 29/8 @ Bloomberg SPACE
On the Rocks, the result of a collaboration between prominent artists Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow, represents a rare public foray...
Friday 29/8 @ The Courtauld Gallery
Proving that good things do indeed come in small packages, the Courtauld Gallery hosts a series of Paul Cézanne works in...
Friday 29/8 @ BFI Southbank
He's the enigmatic actor who made household names out of iconic characters like Dirty Harry, Josey Wales and Il Buono, but...
Friday 29/8 @ Bistrotheque
Irredeemably debonair duo Bourgeois & Maurice transform Bistrotheque into a sizzling and sultry hotspot. Describing themselves as "neo-cabaret", the double act...
Friday 29/8 @ Rokeby
Rokeby Gallery have teamed up with WITH to offer bespoke life solutions. WITH's agents — sometimes blue-faced and always sporting anonymously...
Friday 29/8 @ Flowers East
This group show at Flowers collects work inspired by domesticity and made with the kinetic strain of art in mind. Many...
Friday 29/8 @ Jazz Cafe
It's been 19 years since hip-hop legends De La Soul released their influential debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, and...
Friday 29/8 @ Shoreditch Town Hall
All-female exhibition Rapunzel Rapunzel features the work of eight up-and-coming London-based artists. The "unruly girl work" of curator and abstract painter...
Tonight Forget About Your House and Cars
Friday 29/8 @ Union Gallery
It's the end of the world as they know it over at Union Gallery, where Tonight Forget About Your Houses and...
Friday 29/8 @ Fred [London] Ltd
Vyner Street's Fred [London] Ltd shows the work of Jakob Roepke, a master of collage who has been refining his skills...
Friday 29/8 @ 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 29/8 @ Middle Temple Hall
The Theatre of Memory's production of Shakespeare's ultimate tragic love story is showing at Middle Temple Hall, one of London's most...
Friday 29/8 @ Cubitt Gallery and Studios
Electronic-arts pioneer Jan St Werner's Noise Room explores the concept of a simulated listening environment. The various compositions on offer are...
Friday 29/8 @ Camden Arts Centre
One of Europe's most significant auteurs, Chantal Akerman makes her first appearance at a UK public gallery with this selection of...
Friday 29/8 @ National Theatre
For those navigating the insistently endless summer days on a budget, the National Theatre's Watch This Space returns to the scenic...
Friday 29/8 @ Barbican
About as far-removed from traditional fashion houses as possible, Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have a surreal sense of...
Friday 29/8 @ Camley Street Natural Park
As bizarre art projects go, building a massive replica of a Disney castle in your West London studio and floating it...
Friday 29/8 @ Hoxton Hall
Although he's best known for his collaboration with singer KT Tunstall (he rendered her as a comic-book character for Tunstall's album...
Friday 29/8 @ King's Head Theatre
Islington's recently refurbished King's Head Theatre kicked off their "season of premieres" earlier this year, and The Shadowmaster is next on...
Friday 29/8 @ The Aquarium L-13
It may seem like a long journey from a punk portrait of HRH Queen Elizabeth (complete with swastikas and safety pins)...
Friday 29/8 @ River Terrace, Southbank Centre
Berlin-based Jeppe Hein's water fountain is the perfect place to cool down on a sizzling summer day. The grid-like array of...
Friday 29/8 @ PM Gallery & House
Photographer Hans Stakelbeek unveils the reconstruction of Afghanistan in his new series of images, Out of the Dust. The Dutch Ministry...
Friday 29/8 @ 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...
Friday 29/8 @ The Horse Hospital
In From Fear to Sanity, the Horse Hospital celebrates the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's 50th anniversary with an overview of the...
Friday 29/8 @ 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 29/8 @ 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 29/8 @ Vegas Gallery
Inspired by the images adorning the covers of pulp-fiction novels, the tropes of film noir and the buxom ladies of Russ...
Friday 29/8 @ Matches
Abigail Lane first came to the public's attention 20 years ago as one of the YBAs involved in then Goldsmiths College...
Friday 29/8 @ South London Gallery
This exhibition at the South London Gallery features ten artists from the UK and around the globe who share a thematic...
Friday 29/8 @ Arcola Theatre
Adapted from John Fowles' novel The Collector, the Arcola's Ben Caplan-directed stage version is an unnerving and unforgiving examination of human...
