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Sarah Baker
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Saturday 27 Sep (12:30–5pm) @ Bearspace
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The "literature" of Jackie Collins hasn't been the inspiration for many artworks, but London video artist Sarah Baker draws on her bonkbuster Studs for her... View details »
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Gold '08
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Saturday 27 Sep (1pm–2am) @ Shoreditch Town Hall
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From its Dusty Limits-hosted life-drawing challenge to gay bingo with lip-syncer Jonny Woo, boutique shindig Gold '08 offers unconventional entertainment for all. Kicking off today... View details »
- Music: Festival
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Nail the Cross
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Saturday 27 Sep (3pm–5am) @ Various locations
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New Cross, one of the more bona fide parts of trendy East-Endia, hosts music/art festival Nail the Cross, featuring live music, art and DJs across... View details »
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Jetlag Tour
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Saturday 27 Sep (11pm–8am) @ Fabric
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Ignore that ominously downbeat name — this is another must-see artist tour from Berlin's Bpitch Control. Live favourites Modeselektor are still plugging their electro-crunk opus... View details »
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Time Travel All-Nighter
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Saturday 27 Sep (11:30pm–6am) @ BFI IMAX
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Whether it's Marty McFly, a naked Arnie or a big-haired Christopher Lambert that flicks your switch, BFI delivers in this all-night celebration of the space-time... View details »
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The Stratford Hoard
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Saturday 27 Sep @ Stratford Station
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The Stratford Hoard is an exhibition for Transport for London's Platform for Art project at Stratford station in anticipation of the 2012 games. Curator and... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
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Amora
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Saturday 27 Sep (11am–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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Parkour
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Saturday 27 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
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Quo Vadis
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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 Sep (noon–7pm) @ 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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Saturday 27 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
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Côte
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Saturday 27 Sep (10am–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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 Sep (11am–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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The Courtauld Cézannes
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Saturday 27 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 »
- Film
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The Visitor
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Saturday 27 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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Puffball
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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 Sep (10am–6pm) @ 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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Love
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Saturday 27 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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Robin Footitt
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Saturday 27 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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Forever 27
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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 Sep (11am–4pm) @ 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 »
- Film
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The Wackness
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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 Sep (10am–1:30pm) @ 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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Saturday 27 Sep (9–1am) @ 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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Manfredi Beninati
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Saturday 27 Sep (noon–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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Saturday 27 Sep (10am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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 »
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Francis Bacon
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Saturday 27 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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Saturday 27 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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Material Presence
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Saturday 27 Sep (11am–6pm) @ 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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Dan Baldwin
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Saturday 27 Sep (noon–5:30pm) @ Forster Gallery
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Singled out by critics and collectors alike, Dan Baldwin's work stretches across a range of media and inspirations. Baldwin juxtaposes an enticing array of visual... View details »
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Peter Friedl
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Saturday 27 Sep (11am–4pm) @ Spring Projects
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In his testimonial-led work, Peter Friedl creates new political and artistic discourses by re-photographing his collection of politically charged newspaper images in high-contrast black-and-white. Friedl's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Ivanov
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Saturday 27 Sep (2:30 & 7:30pm) @ Wyndham's Theatre
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Tom Stoppard, one of the 20th century's finest dramatists, makes over the work of Chekhov, arguably the 19th century's greatest playwright, in the Donmar's new... View details »
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Turner Prize
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Saturday 27 Sep (10am–5:40pm) @ Tate Britain
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Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of the final four: installationist... View details »
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Mimei Thompson
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Saturday 27 Sep (noon–6pm) @ Transition Gallery
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RCA- educated Mimei Thompson presents her debut solo effort, Mime1, at Transition Gallery. In it, she explores the ever-changing manifestations of energy. Her striking wall... View details »
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Juan Fontanive
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Saturday 27 Sep (noon–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery
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American artist Juan Fontanive returns to Riflemaker for his second show exploring the mechanical image. Eschewing the digital media that pervade many contemporary-art shows today,... View details »
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Menagerie
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Saturday 27 Sep @ The Jones
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The newly opened Jones Hotel has set about re-creating the once-popular aristocratic pursuit of collecting exotic animals. But this is a menagerie with a twist:... View details »
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Wouldn't It Be Nice
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Saturday 27 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Embankment Galleries
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The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for social experimentation. Besides displaying... View details »
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High Wire
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Saturday 27 Sep (11am–7pm) @ The German Gymnasium
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Artangel presents Catherine Yass' cinematic exploration of the physical dexterity and mental stamina of high-wire walker Didier Pasquette. Having captured Pasquette's vertiginous meanderings between the... View details »
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Beside the Seaside
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Saturday 27 Sep (10am–5pm) @ National Maritime Museum
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The National Maritime Museum's archive of photographs, posters and memorabilia provides fascinating insight into a boom time for the British coast. In the mid-1800s, rail... View details »
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Simon Willems
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Saturday 27 Sep (noon–6pm) @ Vegas Gallery
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Offering insight into The Advantages of Failure, London-based artist Simon Willems presents a solo exhibition at Vegas Gallery. Motivated by a concentrated contemporary culture and... View details »
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Solid Gold
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Saturday 27 Sep (11am–4pm) @ Eleven
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Martha Parsey's Solid Gold at the Eleven gallery is a set of oil-on-canvas portraits that explore the decadence of the well-to-do. A natural sequel to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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in-i
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Saturday 27 Sep @ National Theatre
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French avant-gardist Juliette Binoche teams up with maverick choreographer Akram Khan to create a piece that remains in flux as it is performed. With Binoche... View details »
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Ravinder Reddy
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Saturday 27 Sep (11am–4pm) @ Grosvenor Gallery
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To coincide with the first UK solo exhibition of his work at Grosvenor Gallery, Ravinder Reddy has created a large-scale public piece for the Economist... View details »
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Gerhard Richter
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Saturday 27 Sep (10am–6pm) @ Serpentine Gallery
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For someone who once wrote, "Basically, painting is total idiocy," German painter Gerhard Richter has not done badly with the medium. Widely regarded as one... View details »
