Events on Wednesday, February 4

Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art: Photography
Angela Gorgas: Martin Amis and Friends
@ National Portrait Gallery
Photographer Angela Gorgas celebrates the 60th birthday of her old friend and former fiancée Martin Amis (or Smarty Anus, as Private...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
More Flavor: Spectacle
Ukulele Wednesdays
@ The Royal George
Lorraine Hardman of the London-based ukulele-karaoke collective Karauke leads this weekly jam session at the Royal George. Drawing influence from the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Regent
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
More Flavor: City Gem
The Regent
@ The Regent
If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming & James Bond</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art
For Your Eyes Only
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
More Flavor: City Gem
Dehesa
@ Dehesa
Together with Alan Yau's Cha Cha Moon and ace burger joint the Diner, Dehesa completes Ganton Street's status as the epicentre...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
More Flavor: Exhibition
Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Within</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art: Photography
Within
@ Bloomberg SPACE
This exhibition of newly-commissioned portraits at Bloomberg SPACE features photographers Poppy de Villeneuve, Roderick Buchanan, Sarah Jones and Muzi Quawson. Within...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Beside the Seaside: Snapshots of British Coastal Life, 1880-1950</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art: Photography
Beside the Seaside
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Homeless in the Capital</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art
Homeless in the Capital
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
London Fencing Club
Month_02 Thursday Day_05
More Flavor: Sports
London Fencing Club
@ Finsbury Leisure Centre
If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that,"...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Performing Arts: Theatre
Complicit
@ The Old Vic
Kevin Spacey attracts an all-star cast as he takes the directorial reins on Joe Sutton's Complicit, which receives its world premiere...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
@ Dulwich Picture Gallery
Illuminations looks back on the work of satirist Saul Steinberg, who spent six years colouring the pages of The New Yorker...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Turning the Season</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
More Flavor: City Gem
Turning the Season
@ The Wapping Project
Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Art of the Poster: A Century of Design</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art
The Art of the Poster
@ 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 London...  View details »
Ongoing
Café on the Hill
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
More Flavor: City Gem
Café on the Hill
@ Cafe on the Hill
With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art
Futurism 100!
@ Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Futurism 100! marks the centenary of the Futurist Manifesto by exhibiting the work of two leading figures from the movement in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>VOODOO: Hoochie Coochie and the Creative Spirit</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art
VOODOO
@ Riflemaker Gallery
Riflemaker's new show pays homage to enhanced and skewed processes of creativity, looking to artists inspired by voodoo, religious orders, mind-altering...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Olympic Stadium Project - Le Corbusier and Baghdad</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art: Architecture/Design
The Olympic Stadium Project
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Stratford Hoard</em>
Month_02 Thursday Day_05
Art
The Stratford Hoard
@ Stratford Station
The Stratford Hoard is an exhibition for Transport for London's Platform for Art project at Stratford station in anticipation of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>From Kabul to Kandahar 1833-1933</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art: Photography
From Kabul to Kandahar 1833-1933
@ Royal Geographical Society
From Kabul to Kandahar 1833 -1933 is jointly curated by the Royal Geographical Society, the Afghan Association of London, Brondesbury College...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art: Photography
"Put variety in white" for "Black is not a colour"
@ Red Gate Gallery
Photographer Sally Rice challenges the recent revival of black-and-white art photography with an exhibition that puts the spotlight back onto colour....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Lindsay Seers: <em>It Has To Be This Way</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art
It Has To Be This Way
@ Matt's Gallery
Lindsay Seers explores the complexity of relationships in It Has To Be This Way at Matt's Gallery. Following a recent jaunt...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Wildlife Photographer of the Year</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art: Photography
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
@ Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a real treat for any nature snapper — it will be interesting to see whether...  View details »
Ongoing
Canteen Baker Street
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Canteen Baker Street
@ Canteen Baker Street
With this new all-day diner on Baker Street, Canteen's great-British-grub philosophy finally makes it into the West End. The marriage of...  View details »
Ongoing
Haozhan
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
More Flavor: City Gem
Haozhan
@ Haozhan
Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Listening Post</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art
Listening Post
@ The Science Museum
Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008</em>
Month_02 Wednesday Day_04
Art: Photography
Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free