Events on Friday, September 5
Friday 5/9 @ Bishops Square
Hosted in the new Spitalfields amphitheatre and curated by Mark Holub of punk-jazz outfit Led Bib, this one-day festival from the...
Friday 5/9 @ Corsica Studios
If you missed the super-intimate Silver Apples gig last March, now's your chance to catch the NY experimental legends live. Highly...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/9 @ 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....
Friday 5/9 @ Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Collection present Skeletons, a gruesome yet fascinating look at London history. Drawing from the Museum of London's collection of...
Friday 5/9 @ Plant Room
Architect duo Ulrike Steven and Gareth Morris (What If) have teamed up with urban-regeneration agency the Shoreditch Trust to transform a...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Asia House
Outstanding photojournalism should bring things that are out of reach into shockingly close range, and Seamus Murphy's exhibition at Asia House...
Friday 5/9 @ 229
Purveyors of all unabashedly independent — be it in the form of a fanzine, record label or, as featured here, an...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ 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,...
Friday 5/9 @ 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....
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance!
Friday 5/9 @ Trolley Gallery
In her first solo exhibition, Romance Is Dead! Long Live Romance! artist Isabelle Graeff brings together the obscene and the commonplace...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ The Courtauld Gallery
Proving that good things do indeed come in small packages, the Courtauld Gallery hosts a series of Paul Cézanne works in...
Friday 5/9 @ South London Gallery
This exhibition at the South London Gallery features ten artists from the UK and around the globe who share a thematic...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Flowers East
This group show at Flowers collects work inspired by domesticity and made with the kinetic strain of art in mind. Many...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Stuart Shave/Modern Art
Clare Woods takes the British countryside as subject matter for her large-format enamel/oil paintings, but unlike Constable or Turner, she depicts...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
The Smallest Cinema in the World
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Transition Gallery
Tadpoles, bees and eggs are just some of the materials used in an attempt to capture and explode the mundane in...
Friday 5/9 @ British Museum
Two of the capital's cultural powerhouses — the British Museum and Kew Gardens — join forces to provide insight into the...
Friday 5/9 @ Barbican
Huang Yong Ping's first exhibition in the UK is a satirical diatribe inspired by the Frolic, the flagship vessel of the...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Proud Camden
Besides having great musicianship in common, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all share in the...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Peacock Theatre
Take the opportunity to hear the next Callas or Pavarotti at this double whammy from the BYO (a great acronym, we...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
Spanning three decades, Joseph Szabo's silver gelatin prints expose life in all its forms on Jones Beach — one of New...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow
Friday 5/9 @ Bloomberg SPACE
On the Rocks, the result of a collaboration between prominent artists Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow, represents a rare public foray...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Blood Wedding and Petite Rouge
Friday 5/9 @ 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....
Friday 5/9 @ Rokeby
Rokeby Gallery have teamed up with WITH to offer bespoke life solutions. WITH's agents — sometimes blue-faced and always sporting anonymously...
Friday 5/9 @ Max Wigram Gallery
Executing a swift "Bruce Wayne by day, Batman by night" manoeuvre, Italian artist Manfredi Beninati presents La Natura Morta at the...
Friday 5/9 @ Bistrotheque
Black-box cabaret darling and East End archetype Bistrotheque bring on the full monty with Tony Award-nominated New York performance artist Justin...
Tonight Forget About Your House and Cars
Friday 5/9 @ Union Gallery
It's the end of the world as they know it over at Union Gallery, where Tonight Forget About Your Houses and...
Friday 5/9 @ ICA
The ICA's ambitious new show brings together 60 early career artists from Britain and Ireland. In an exhibition spanning six months,...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Haunch of Venison
Anthony Goicolea's previous, Cindy Sherman-esque photography has included portraits of himself as a young boy and dreamlike tableaux with gruesome twists....
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ 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....
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ Barbican
About as far-removed from traditional fashion houses as possible, Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have a surreal sense of...
Friday 5/9 @ Serpentine Gallery
American artist Richard Prince first achieved notoriety in 1977, when he photographed advertisements (most famously the Marlboro cowboy) and images from...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ 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)...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash!
Friday 5/9 @ The Cartoon Museum
What a whizzer idea: anarchic kids' comics The Beano and The Dandy launched on the eve of WWII and are still...
Friday 5/9 @ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...
London Internation Animation Festival
Friday 5/9 @ Various locations
Spanning the classic, bizarre and cutting edge, this celebration of animation includes selections from a global set of studios and directors....
Friday 5/9 @ Vegas Gallery
Inspired by the images adorning the covers of pulp-fiction novels, the tropes of film noir and the buxom ladies of Russ...
Friday 5/9 @ 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...
Friday 5/9 @ National Theatre
For those navigating the insistently endless summer days on a budget, the National Theatre's Watch This Space returns to the scenic...
