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Francis Bacon
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–5:50pm) @ Tate Britain
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As famous for his outlandish lifestyle as for his often disturbing paintings, Francis Bacon spent most of his career in the capital, at his infamous... View details »
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Through Glass Walls
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Zest Gallery
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This exhibition proves that there's more to glass than vases and bowls, with six contemporary glass artists displaying artworks designed for walls. Lucy Alexandra Batt's... View details »
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Twilight Suite
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Thursday 11 Sep (6–11pm) @ Louise T Blouin Institute
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As part of the Louise T Blouin Institute's Art After Dark programme, Stomper cofounders Paula Naughton and Greg Poole collaborate with Mercury Prize-winner Mark Melvin... View details »
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Material Presence
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–3pm) @ 176
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176 presents seven artists whose works, in varying ways, draw the viewer into an immersive sensory experience. Look out for Mark Titchner's impressive installation,... View details »
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Wilde Night Out
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Thursday 11 Sep (6:30pm) @ St Paul's Church
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Oscar Wilde is better known for his acerbic wit, Earnest ways and well-earned distaste for the criminal-justice system than his fairy tales. However, long before... View details »
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Sneaky Sound System
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Thursday 11 Sep (7:30pm) @ Scala
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Fresh from a triumphant effort at Glastonbury, Sydney-based trio Sneaky Sound System hit Scala this evening in support of new release, 2, a self-assured pastiche... View details »
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Amora
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Thursday 11 Sep (1pm–midnight) @ Amora
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Amora — the Academy of Sex and Relationships — offers an educational exploration of all aspects of intimacy. Seven distinct zones take you through everything... View details »
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Furnace
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–3pm & 6–11pm) @ Furnace
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Tucked down a side street off Hoxton Square is the perfect remedy to the seasonal poultry overload. Shoreditch's best-kept secret, Furnace has been in the... View details »
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Parkour
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Thursday 11 Sep @ Westminster Academy
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Release your urban primate with parkour, the sport that catapults folks around London using vaults, leaps and climbs. The beginner's class breaks you in gently... View details »
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Quo Vadis
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Thursday 11 Sep (noon–2:45 & 5–10:45pm) @ Quo Vadis
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Sam and Eddie Hart cemented their restaurant reputation by reinventing tapas for a sophisticated London clientele at Fino, then tailoring them for a drop-by crowd... View details »
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Listening Post
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ The Science Museum
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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 »
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Children of Glory
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Thursday 11 Sep @ Various locations
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With the Russian FSB flexing its muscles once again under Putin, Krisztina Goda's gripping Cold War-era drama bristles with prescience as it recounts the story... View details »
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For Your Eyes Only
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Imperial War Museum Park
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Ian Fleming, the author responsible for birthing the shaken-not-stirred secret agent James Bond, receives his due in this new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.... View details »
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Nought to Sixty
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Thursday 11 Sep (noon–9pm) @ ICA
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The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months, the artworks roll over... View details »
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Tom Hunter
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–5:45pm) @ Museum of Childhood
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Exploring the ever-changing face of the trade that in east London, Tom Hunter's portraits document the varied mechants and wares of local businesses running along... View details »
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Daniela Schönbächler
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Thursday 11 Sep @ Riflemaker Gallery
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Awaiting your contemplation, Murano-based artist Daniela Schönbächler's work is in situ in Soho's former gun factory. Schönbächler brings a fragment of the Italian city, famed... View details »
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Côte
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Thursday 11 Sep (8am–midnight) @ Côte
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The first Côte opened in Wimbledon last August; before the rapturous reception had died down, a Soho-based second location opened in May, bringing the all-day... View details »
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The Escapist
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Thursday 11 Sep @ Various locations
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Like all good prison-escape movies, The Escapist has an ensemble cast of stereotypes: the lifer (Brian Cox), the serial escapee (Liam Cunningham), the fixer (Seu... View details »
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Dehesa
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Thursday 11 Sep (noon–11pm) @ Dehesa
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Together with Alan Yau's Cha Cha Moon and ace burger joint the Diner, Dehesa completes Ganton Street's status as the epicentre of Soho spur-of-the-moment dining.... View details »
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Huang Yong Ping
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–8pm) @ Barbican Centre
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Huang Yong Ping's first exhibition in the UK is a satirical diatribe inspired by the Frolic, the flagship vessel of the British opium trade. A... View details »
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The Courtauld Cézannes
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ The Courtauld Institute of Art
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Proving that good things do indeed come in small packages, the Courtauld Gallery hosts a series of Paul Cézanne works in its diminutive interior. Presenting... View details »
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Seamus Murphy
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Asia House
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Outstanding photojournalism should bring things that are out of reach into shockingly close range, and Seamus Murphy's exhibition at Asia House does exactly that. Between... View details »
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The Visitor
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Thursday 11 Sep @ Various locations
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Economics professor Walter Vale is widowed and weary, his lonely existence accentuated by his fumbling attempts to emulate his late wife on the piano. Arriving... View details »
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Art After Dark
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Thursday 11 Sep (6–11pm) @ Louise T Blouin Institute
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The coming weeks of the Louise T Blouin Institute's Art After Dark 10 x 10 series calls to those with nocturnal and/or artistic tendencies. Ten... View details »
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Chantal Akerman
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Camden Arts Centre
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One of Europe's most significant auteurs, Chantal Akerman makes her first appearance at a UK public gallery with this selection of pioneering films at the... View details »
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Anya Gallaccio
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Camden Arts Centre
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Turner Prize nominee Anya Gallaccio's impressive new sculpture at the Camden Arts Centre sees her once again harnessing materials from nature, having previously employed rotting... View details »
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Mashups
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Thursday 11 Sep @ The Kowalsky Gallery
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Acclaimed curator Stuart Semple and four contemporary artists explore one of the hallmarks of Generation Y in this exhibition that champions juxtaposition. Bearing witness to... View details »
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Puffball
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Thursday 11 Sep @ Various locations
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Don't Look Now director Nicolas Roeg's latest cinematic offering is based on Fay Weldon's novel, adapted into a screenplay by her son, Dan. Kelly Reilly... View details »
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Skeletons
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–10pm) @ Wellcome Collection
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The Wellcome Collection present Skeletons, a gruesome yet fascinating look at London history. Drawing from the Museum of London's collection of over 17,000 skeletons, the... View details »
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Johnny Cash
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–7pm) @ Proud Central
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Attention country fans: if you couldn't get tickets for Dolly's recent O2 appearance, check out this Johnny Cash photography exhibition instead. It charts the legendary... View details »
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Love
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ The National Gallery
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Love is a many-splendoured thing, but it's also a complex emotion that encompasses a gamut of feelings. With themes of religious devotion, unrequited passion, jealousy,... View details »
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Domestic Appliance
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Flowers East
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This group show at Flowers collects work inspired by domesticity and made with the kinetic strain of art in mind. Many of the pieces assign... View details »
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Jamie Reid
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–6pm) @ The Aquarium L-13
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It may seem like a long journey from a punk portrait of HRH Queen Elizabeth (complete with swastikas and safety pins) to abstract works created... View details »
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Robin Footitt
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Thursday 11 Sep @ Hoxton Hall
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Although he's best known for his collaboration with singer KT Tunstall (he rendered her as a comic-book character for Tunstall's album Drastic Fantastic), artist Robin... View details »
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AOP Open 2008
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Association of Photographers Gallery
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At the AOP Open, an expert panel judges the work of amateur snappers against the work of professional photographers. With no subject restrictions, the resulting... View details »
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WK-LISTER
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Thursday 11 Sep (noon–8pm) @ Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
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Counter-culture gallery Elms Lesters Painting Rooms' pulsating new show brings internationally renowned urban artists WK Interact and Anthony Lister under their roof once again (both... View details »
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Pascal Rousson
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Thursday 11 Sep (noon–6pm) @ Vegas Gallery
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Inspired by the images adorning the covers of pulp-fiction novels, the tropes of film noir and the buxom ladies of Russ Meyer films, Pascal Rousson's... View details »
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Forever 27
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–5:30pm) @ Proud Camden
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Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the fact that they died... View details »
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Gemma Holt
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–6pm) @ Limoncello Gallery
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Integrating design with fine art, Gemma Holt's Work on Paper features a functional form of paper (Holt's own "G5") upon which every item of the... View details »
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WITH
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–6pm) @ Rokeby
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Rokeby Gallery have teamed up with WITH to offer bespoke life solutions. WITH's agents — sometimes blue-faced and always sporting anonymously numerical names — offer... View details »
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The Wackness
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Thursday 11 Sep @ Various
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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Noise Room
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Thursday 11 Sep (noon–6pm) @ Cubitt Gallery and Studios
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Electronic-arts pioneer Jan St Werner's Noise Room explores the concept of a simulated listening environment. The various compositions on offer are played on an all-encompassing... View details »
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Udomsak Krisanamis
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Victoria Miro Gallery
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Udomsak Krisanamis's new show at the Victoria Miro Gallery evokes a distinctly East-meets-West feeling. The mottled array of pieces take in Krisanamis' characteristically layered collages,... View details »
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Roger Hiorns
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Thursday 11 Sep (noon–7pm) @ Artangel Harper Road Site
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British artist Roger Hiorns leaves his trademark chemical trace in new project Seizure, commissioned by Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Hiorns focuses his attention... View details »
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David Spiller
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–5:30pm) @ Beaux Arts
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Taking a none-too-subtle approach to his work, David Spiller draws from the immediate nature of pop art to create a series of lurid canvas landscapes... View details »
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Hannah Waldron
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Thursday 11 Sep (8–1am) @ The Old Shoreditch Station
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Hannah Waldron's collection of illustrations comprises a bevy of delicate, colourful musings on space, favourite animals and imaginary worlds. The subjects of her previous ink... View details »
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Illumini
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–7pm) @ The Crypt, St Pancras Church
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Taking light in all its forms, from fire to electricity, as its theme, this Jane Webb-curated exhibition kicks off with a night of free entertainment,... View details »
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Manfredi Beninati
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Max Wigram Gallery
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Executing a swift "Bruce Wayne by day, Batman by night" manoeuvre, Italian artist Manfredi Beninati presents La Natura Morta at the Max Wigram Gallery —... View details »
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Anthony Goicolea
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–7pm) @ Haunch of Venison
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Anthony Goicolea's previous, Cindy Sherman-esque photography has included portraits of himself as a young boy and dreamlike tableaux with gruesome twists. Earlier this year, the... View details »
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Clare Woods
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–6pm) @ Stuart Shave/Modern Art
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Clare Woods takes the British countryside as subject matter for her large-format enamel/oil paintings, but unlike Constable or Turner, she depicts desolate country landscapes in... View details »
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Michael Müller
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Mummery + Schnelle
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Presenting an aesthetically minimalist series of artworks, Michael Müller's solo exhibition Caoutchouc launches today at Mummery + Schnelle. Utilising a stark cartographic style in addition... View details »
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Charles Avery
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Thursday 11 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
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While awaiting the fifth season of Lost, satiate your appetite for fantastical drama by visiting Charles Avery's imaginary island. The Islanders, an ongoing project that... View details »
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David Blandy
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Thursday 11 Sep (11am–6pm) @ Artprojx Space
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Sinophile and underground artist David Blandy fleshes out his fascination with combat in his upbeat exhibition. Joyously mixing imagery from kung-fu films, arcade fighting games... View details »