Events on Thursday, September 4
Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow
Thursday 4/9 @ Bloomberg SPACE
On the Rocks, the result of a collaboration between prominent artists Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow, represents a rare public foray...
Thursday 4/9 @ The Courtauld Gallery
Proving that good things do indeed come in small packages, the Courtauld Gallery hosts a series of Paul Cézanne works in...
Thursday 4/9 @ Plant Room
Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a...
Thursday 4/9 @ Rokeby
Rokeby Gallery have teamed up with WITH to offer bespoke life solutions. WITH's agents — sometimes blue-faced and always sporting anonymously...
Thursday 4/9 @ Bistrotheque
Black-box cabaret darling and East End archetype Bistrotheque bring on the full monty with Tony Award-nominated New York performance artist Justin...
Thursday 4/9 @ Louise T Blouin Institute
The coming weeks of the Louise T Blouin Institute's Art After Dark 10 x 10 series calls to those with nocturnal...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance!
Thursday 4/9 @ Trolley Gallery
In her first solo exhibition, Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance! artist Isabelle Graeff brings together the obscene and the commonplace...
Thursday 4/9 @ Artangel Harper Road Site
British artist Roger Hiorns leaves his trademark chemical trace in new project Seizure, commissioned by Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation....
Thursday 4/9 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Thursday 4/9 @ South London Gallery
This exhibition at the South London Gallery features ten artists from the UK and around the globe who share a thematic...
Thursday 4/9 @ Barbican
About as far-removed from traditional fashion houses as possible, Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have a surreal sense of...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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)...
Thursday 4/9 @ Asia House
Outstanding photojournalism should bring things that are out of reach into shockingly close range, and Seamus Murphy's exhibition at Asia House...
Thursday 4/9 @ Sadler's Wells
He's taken on Tchaikovsky, Bizet and Tim Burton; now Matthew Bourne turns his choreographic talents to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of...
Thursday 4/9 @ Victoria Miro Gallery
Udomsak Krisanamis's new show at the Victoria Miro Gallery evokes a distinctly East-meets-West feeling. The mottled array of pieces take in...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/9 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ Vegas Gallery
Inspired by the images adorning the covers of pulp-fiction novels, the tropes of film noir and the buxom ladies of Russ...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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....
Thursday 4/9 @ Flowers East
This group show at Flowers collects work inspired by domesticity and made with the kinetic strain of art in mind. Many...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 229
Purveyors of all unabashedly independent — be it in the form of a fanzine, record label or, as featured here, an...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Spanning three decades, Joseph Szabo's silver gelatin prints expose life in all its forms on Jones Beach — one of New...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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....
Blood Wedding and Petite Rouge
Thursday 4/9 @ 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....
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ Serpentine Gallery
American artist Richard Prince first achieved notoriety in 1977, when he photographed advertisements (most famously the Marlboro cowboy) and images from...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Thursday 4/9 @ The Cartoon Museum
What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
The Smallest Cinema in the World
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ Barbican
Huang Yong Ping's first exhibition in the UK is a satirical diatribe inspired by the Frolic, the flagship vessel of the...
Thursday 4/9 @ Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Collection present Skeletons, a gruesome yet fascinating look at London history. Drawing from the Museum of London's collection of...
Thursday 4/9 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Tonight Forget About Your House and Cars
Thursday 4/9 @ Union Gallery
It's the end of the world as they know it over at Union Gallery, where Tonight Forget About Your Houses and...
Thursday 4/9 @ The Old Shoreditch Station
Hannah Waldron's collection of illustrations comprises a bevy of delicate, colourful musings on space, favourite animals and imaginary worlds. The subjects...
Thursday 4/9 @ Beaux Arts
Taking a none-too-subtle approach to his work, David Spiller draws from the immediate nature of pop art to create a series...
London Internation Animation Festival
Thursday 4/9 @ Various locations
Spanning the classic, bizarre and cutting edge, this celebration of animation includes selections from a global set of studios and directors....
Thursday 4/9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/9 @ National Theatre
For those navigating the insistently endless summer days on a budget, the National Theatre's Watch This Space returns to the scenic...
