Friday (1)
JOANN SFAR: GAINSBOURG (VIE HEROIQUE)
Curzon Soho
7/30/2010
Joann Sfar's anti-biopic Gainsbourg (vie heroique) is a weird and wonderful foray into the life of infamous Gallic song-writer Serge Gainsbourg. Best-known in the UK for his saucy duet with Jane Birkin, "Je t'aime... moi non plus", in France he is a legend and Sfar's
Saturday (3)
FIELD DAY
Victoria Park
7/31/2010
Victoria Park's annual village fete, complete with apple bobbing, welly throwing and a Cabaret Tent picks up some of this year's most interesting acts with a huge offering of bands, DJs and performers spread over six
ELECTRIC MINDS LOFT PARTY: MOVE D + MARK E
A Secret Shoreditch Loft
7/31/2010
After a sweat drenched opening event featuring the excellent Toni Lionni (keep an eye out for his new album out in October) promoting colossus Electric Minds approaches its second of four loft party events
POSTHUMAN (LIVE) + ABE DUQUE & BLAKE BAXTER (LIVE) + RHADOO + MARCO CAROLA + HEARTTHROB (LIVE)
Fabric
Dalston Superstore
7/31/2010 till 8/1/2010
Those who like it served up tougher than a Slayer double-bass peddled drum fill will be delighted to know the infamous Wang team are heading to Fabric this weekend to mark the imminent release of
Sunday (3)
POSTHUMAN (LIVE) + ABE DUQUE & BLAKE BAXTER (LIVE) + RHADOO + MARCO CAROLA + HEARTTHROB (LIVE)
Fabric
Dalston Superstore
7/31/2010 till 8/1/2010
Those who like it served up tougher than a Slayer double-bass peddled drum fill will be delighted to know the infamous Wang team are heading to Fabric this weekend to mark the imminent release of
SEPARADO! (WITH GRUFF RHYS + TONY DA GATORRA LIVE)
BFI Southbank
Curzon Soho
8/1/2010 till 8/2/2010
Indie pop prefect Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon) embarks on a psychedelic, sci-fi trip across space and time to trace his long lost Patagonian relatives. As a child Rhys was inspired by the Welsh-
SOUTH AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
BFI Southbank
8/1/2010 till 8/31/2010
Much of South America enthusiastically embraced cinema in its early years, with the cities providing huge audiences -- Argentina in particular went mad for the movies, and the '30s and '40s were a golden age. But as
Monday (2)
SEPARADO! (WITH GRUFF RHYS + TONY DA GATORRA LIVE)
BFI Southbank
Curzon Soho
8/1/2010 till 8/2/2010
Indie pop prefect Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals, Neon Neon) embarks on a psychedelic, sci-fi trip across space and time to trace his long lost Patagonian relatives. As a child Rhys was inspired by the Welsh-
SOUTH AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
BFI Southbank
8/1/2010 till 8/31/2010
Much of South America enthusiastically embraced cinema in its early years, with the cities providing huge audiences -- Argentina in particular went mad for the movies, and the '30s and '40s were a golden age. But as
Tuesday (2)
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW
Cafe Oto
8/3/2010
Flitting effortlessly between frenetic accordion passages and funereal Balkan infused folksongs, A Hawk And A Hacksaw create a unique sound. For this European tour the two core members Jeremy Barnes
SOUTH AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
BFI Southbank
8/1/2010 till 8/31/2010
Much of South America enthusiastically embraced cinema in its early years, with the cities providing huge audiences -- Argentina in particular went mad for the movies, and the '30s and '40s were a golden age. But as
Wednesday (1)
SOUTH AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
BFI Southbank
8/1/2010 till 8/31/2010
Much of South America enthusiastically embraced cinema in its early years, with the cities providing huge audiences -- Argentina in particular went mad for the movies, and the '30s and '40s were a golden age. But as
SUCKER PUNCH
Royal Court
6/11/2010 till 7/31/2010
Roy Williams' new play is filled with brawn, sweat and tears. Telling the story of two black friends growing up in the '80s, who break into a gym one evening and feel the wrath of the manager. Having been forced to clean
VOLKER EICHELMANN + FLORIAN SCHMIDT
Ancient & Modern
7/1/2010 till 7/31/2010
Ancient & Modern is a small gallery in which to hold a two-person exhibition, but Volker Eichelmann and Florian Schmitt have made this a mischievous, expansive visual experience. Eichelmann's small
NO IDEA
Young Vic
7/21/2010 till 7/31/2010
Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence sing, jump and wheel themselves around the stage with panache and hilarity. There's a truly improvised feel to this performance, which highlights the way the British
GLENN SORENSEN
Pump House Gallery
6/10/2010 till 8/1/2010
The Pump House Gallery is an ideal setting for Glenn Sorensen's uniformly small oil-on-board paintings. Deep into Battersea Park and off the gallery trail, this exhibition demands a mini pilgrimage. Sorensen paints
ANDREW KOTTING: IVUL
Renoir
7/23/2010 till 8/5/2010
British artist filmmaker Andrew Kotting (Gallivant) has branched out to a French Pyrenees setting for this tale of disintegrating family dynamics. Russian emigre patriarch Andrei Ivul, either unable or unwilling to
RUAIRIADH O'CONNELL
BISCHOFF/WEISS
7/9/2010 till 8/7/2010
Ruairiadh O'Connell's current solo exhibition entitled Six Play presents six paintings by the artist housed in a cosy intimate space at BISCHOFF/WEISS. Each painting follows a similar sequence, whereby the artist has
CARLOS ACOSTA PREMIERES
London Coliseum
7/28/2010 till 8/7/2010
The world's most loved dancer is at the top of his game. Having left the world of ballet to explore other areas of dance, his work is filled with investigation and ingenuity. The London Coliseum is premiering five
MARK LECKEY
Cabinet
7/3/2010 till 8/11/2010
Originally commissioned for the tenth anniversary of Milton Keynes Gallery, Concrete Vache sees recent Turner Prize-winner Mark Leckey and Cabinet gallerist Martin McGeown delve into the archive of this sapling
ENRON
Noel Coward Theatre
2/17/2010 till 8/14/2010
Lucy Prebble's ENRON is a spectacular piece of theatre: a musical, a satirical sketch of one of the world's biggest corporate collapses, and a must-see in the West End after its sell-out run at the Royal Court.
OSCAR TUAZON
ICA
6/4/2010 till 8/15/2010
The American born and Paris based artist Oscar Tuazon and his temporary organic scaffolding map the limitations and experience of space at the ICA this summer. Emancipated from the utilitarian tendencies
MY NIGHT WITH MAUD
BFI Southbank
7/23/2010 till 8/19/2010
One of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales (the third film in the series), My Night with Maud (Ma nuit chez Maud) has remained one of Rohmer's best known films. Premiering at Cannes in 1969, and (highly unusually)
INCEPTION
BFI IMAX
7/16/2010 till 8/26/2010
Of all arts, film come closest to replicating the world of dreams, as fantasies, fears or surreal events play out before us while we are motionless in the dark. Dreams are the pristine terrain of our unconscious
PICASSO - THE MEDITERRANEAN YEARS
Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street
6/4/2010 till 8/28/2010
Picasso - The Mediterranean Years would appear to be a retrospective of the artists' entire life's work -- with its vast range of ceramics, sculptures, paintings, drawings and more. However this exhibition hones in
JOHN AKOMFRAH: MNEMOSYNE
BFI Southbank
7/14/2010 till 8/30/2010
Most widely known for his directing debut Handsworth Songs (1986) -- one of a group of films produced by the Black Audio Film Collective -- John Akomfrah's experimental film and television work takes as its
1:1 - ARCHITECTS BUILD SMALL SPACES
V&A
6/15/2010 till 8/30/2010
Nineteen international architects were invited by the V&A to develop designs that explore the notions of retreat and refuge. Seven of the resulting "havens" have been built and are currently dotted around
FUTURE HUMAN
BFI Southbank
7/1/2010 till 8/31/2010
When the Apollo astronauts made their "one small step" in 1969, the collective understanding of space travel shifted -- science fiction morphed to become science fact. Cinema quickly absorbed the change in
PROMS 2010
Royal Albert Hall
7/12/2010 till 9/11/2010
This unique, annual festival of classical music, which has become something of a cherished British institution, stirring up an almost feverish excitement, spans nine weeks and is stuffed with world-class
SHUNT: MONEY
Shunt Warehouse
10/5/2009 till 9/25/2010
The tobacco warehouse which Shunt use for Money is less cavernous and sprawling than their extraordinary old venue Shunt Vaults, but it is used very differently. In front of the audience stands a huge towering,
ALL MY SONS
Apollo Theatre
6/28/2010 till 10/2/2010
All My Sons, Arthur Miller's best known and most beloved play, has made a triumphant return to the West End with a stellar cast and powerful direction from Howard Davies. The play tells the story of the
JEAN NOUVEL
Serpentine Gallery
7/12/2010 till 10/17/2010
In 1983, Swiss-French architect Bernard Tschumi won the high-profile architecture competition par excellence, for his design of the Parc de la Villette in Paris. Tschumi's design was a series of fire engine-red pavilions dispersed along an invisible grid; 35 follies
Jean Nouvel
Architecture / Talk | 7/12/2010 till 10/17/2010
ENRON
Theatre | 2/17/2010 till 8/14/2010
Future Human
Film Season | 7/1/2010 till 8/31/2010
David Attenborough + Chris Watson
Art / Talk / Performance | 8/10/2010
Inception
Film | 7/16/2010 till 8/26/2010
Glenn Sorensen
Art | 6/10/2010 till 8/1/2010
Electric Minds Loft Party: Move D + Mark E
Club / DJ | 7/31/2010
Shunt: Money
Theatre | 10/5/2009 till 9/25/2010
John Akomfrah: Mnemosyne
Art / Film / Q&A | 7/14/2010 till 8/30/2010
Field Day
Concert / DJ / Festival / Cabaret | 7/31/2010
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