Events on Friday, January 9
Friday 9/1 @ The Luminaire
Hitting Blighty in a blink-and-you'll-miss-'em manner, hot NYC indie four-piece the Ballet make their UK debut tonight. The band combine bittersweet...
Friday 9/1 @ 333 Mother Bar
Blog and monthly electronic-music night Naked Smiles Club show Old Street how it's done this evening, with forced and fake smiles...
Ongoing Events
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
Friday 9/1 @ National Portrait Gallery
This year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery includes a shot of Rupert Murdoch competing against a...
Friday 9/1 @ Victoria Miro Gallery
War Problems, John Kørner's ambitious new exhibition at Victoria Miro, takes over the entire gallery with 16 large-scale canvases. The artist...
Friday 9/1 @ Royal Academy of Arts
GSK Contemporary brightens-up the Royal Academy over the winter with installations, screenings and seminars examining two themes: Molten States and Collision...
Friday 9/1 @ 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...
A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding
Friday 9/1 @ Whitecross Gallery
In this provocative exhibition at the Whitecross Street Gallery, multimedia works by father-and-son artists John and Jock Mooney go head to...
Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
Friday 9/1 @ The Women's Library
Between the Covers dips into the print archives of the Women's Library to explore how magazines have built relationships with readers...
Friday 9/1 @ Hayward Gallery
Though best known for his iconography of American popular culture and controversial merging of art and mass consumerism, Andy Warhol was...
Friday 9/1 @ Various locations
The London Short Film Festival rings in the New Year with a smorgasbord of film, cocktails and music at venues including...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Friday 9/1 @ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...
From Kabul to Kandahar 1833-1933
Friday 9/1 @ Royal Geographical Society
From Kabul to Kandahar 1833 -1933 is jointly curated by the Royal Geographical Society, the Afghan Association of London, Brondesbury College...
Friday 9/1 @ The Wapping Project
Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping...
Friday 9/1 @ Holster Projects
Beyond Borders is a group show featuring artists who graduated during the past couple of years. Although seven of the eight...
The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light
Friday 9/1 @ Space Station Sixty-Five
The Gift and The Message: A Norwegian Gift of Light by Norwegian artist Jan Kjetil Bjørheim is the latest in a...
Friday 9/1 @ Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents a long-overdue retrospective for the Brazilian conceptualist who creates intriguing installations and sculptures out of familiar objects such...
Friday 9/1 @ Donmar Warehouse
Covent Garden's Donmar Warehouse has gathered an impressive array of actors and directors in honour of poet T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot's...
Friday 9/1 @ Royal Court Theatre
Wig Out! transforms the Royal Court into a heady cabaret club night of catwalk face-offs, toe-tapping tunes and coiffure rivalry. The...
Friday 9/1 @ Pangolin London
Pangolin gallery commissioned more than 50 artists, both young upstarts and world-renowned talents, to create new sculpture in sterling silver for...
The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror
Friday 9/1 @ Monika Bobinska
The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror at Monika Bobinska Gallery celebrates B-movie aesthetics and what they say about '50s socio-political conditions. Three...
Friday 9/1 @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker...
Friday 9/1 @ Covent Garden Market Piazza
The eye-catching, amusing and sometimes wry art displayed on the Tube is the subject of a major retrospective at the
Friday 9/1 @ The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery traces the artistic journey of John Mallord William Turner with an exhibition beginning with early sketches and watercolours...
Friday 9/1 @ National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum's archive of photographs, posters and memorabilia provides fascinating insight into a boom time for the British coast....
Friday 9/1 @ National Film Theatre
This themed season at the NFT shows there's a lot more to Ingrid Bergman's filmography than her turn opposite Bogart as...
Friday 9/1 @ Victoria and Albert Museum
This collection showcases the blueprints and models for the Baghdad Olympic Stadium, one of Le Corbusier's final projects. The designs illustrate...
Friday 9/1 @ Museum of London
Given that there are an estimated 150,000 homeless individuals in the city, the Museum of London's exhibition offers a poignant slice of reality...
Friday 9/1 @ ICA
In Dispersion, nine international artists use film, photography and performance to question the image explosion of recent times. The ambitious new...
Friday 9/1 @ 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 9/1 @ James Freeman Gallery
Five Years features contemporary pieces by 15 artists from call around the world, marking the relaunch of the newly expanded Sesame...
Natural History Museum Ice Rink
Friday 9/1 @ Natural History Museum
The freezing of the Natural History Museum's atmospheric East Lawn for skating has become a festive sight to rival the West...
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Friday 9/1 @ Design Museum
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective of Alan Aldridge, the seminal '60s psychedelic artist and the brains...
Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands
Friday 9/1 @ Sadler's Wells
Demonstrating that Walthamstow has delivered more than early-'90s boy-banders to the world, choreographer and E17 native Matthew Bourne — whose past...
Friday 9/1 @ Faggionato Fine Art
Oleg Vassiliev, who has chosen Faggionato Fine Art for his first UK exhibition, was a major player in Russia's dissident art...
David Cotterrell: Aesthetic Distance
Friday 9/1 @ Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art
Aesthetic Distance is the result of David Cotterrell's time spent at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, where he recorded the...
Friday 9/1 @ Madison Contemporary Art
Eamonn McCabe's new exhibition is a fascinating journey into the environments in which the country's leading writers produce their masterpieces. These...
Jerry Schatzberg: Thin Wild Mercury
Friday 9/1 @ Proud Central
When asked about Bob Dylan, '60s photographer Jerry Schatzberg said, "You just point the camera at him and things happen." This...
Friday 9/1 @ Tate Britain
Three women and one man make up this year's shortlist for the traditionally controversial contemporary art prize. A quick rundown of...
Friday 9/1 @ Bloomberg SPACE
This exhibition of newly-commissioned portraits at Bloomberg SPACE features photographers Poppy de Villeneuve, Roderick Buchanan, Sarah Jones and Muzi Quawson. Within...
Even Better Together Billboard Project + Open Studio
Friday 9/1 @ Gasworks
Gasworks' façade has been given a much-needed facelift with this eye-catching billboard display created through a collaboration between local residents and...
