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This is a call-out to the capital’s chocoholics! A new Chocolate Festival is being held at the Southbank Centre next weekend. It’s free, and you’re all invited! Don’t wait til Easter to gorge on dangerous amounts of the deathly nice brown stuff. Pop down to …

The Lewis Chessmen, probably made in Norway c. 1150-1200 AD; found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. © The Trustees of the British Museum Spring has sprung in London in inimitable sunshine-and-showers style. In response, London’s arts scene has thrown up three Spring-titled …

Judy Dench leads a fantastc cast in Madame De Sade. Photo by Hugo Glendinning It’s not often you get to hear Dame Judy Dench’s instantly recognisable throaty tones describe an orgy. To listen to that famous voice describe, in intricate detail, how her character’s daughter …

Asahina Saburo Yoshihide Wrestles with Two Crocodiles at Kotsubo Beach, Kamakura. By Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1849). Courtesy of American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R. Miller Collection) Great news this week for everyone who loved and misses Covent Garden’s Theatre Museum. Rich big sister …

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is showing as part of the 15th London Australian Film Festival (12-22 Mar) We hate being negative here at Londonist, but London’s art scene seems to be in Last Chance Saloon mode this week. There’s lots of things closing; but …

Douglas Hodge as drag queen Albin in La Cage Aux Folles The highlight of the theatre awards season took place last night: The Laurence Olivier Awards. And oddly, it turned out to be a triumphant night for a play which seems to have been around …

Obama On My Mind plays the Hen and Chickens Theatre until 21 March “We’ve had so much press interest in this,” giggled someone front of house at last night’s press view of Obama On My Mind at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in Highbury. You …

Rumeur (Rumor), 2000-2004. Annette Messager. Fabric, pieces of plush toy, string. Collection Marin Karmitz © photo Marc Domage © Adagp This week’s cultural scene in London is dominated by the East Festival. But aside from all those little east-Londony, quirky, arty events, the other three-quarters …

Roni Horn’s You are the Weather. 1994-95. © The artist and Hauser & Wirth Zürich London Roni Horn It’s another packed week in London’s cultural calendar. There’s new art, dance and opera to tempt you, and that’s before we’ve even got to theatreland. Pack your …

Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle, by Sir Anthony van Dyck. 1637. From a private collection It’s a packed week in London’s art scene. Theatreland, currently wallowing in awards season, looks positively lazy in comparison to all these arty shows and exhibitions. Take your pick from …