London art exhibitions, fairs, galleries and artists
The homeless can sometimes be invisible; it is easy to look the other way and ignore the bodies in doorways, curled up on discarded cardboard or huddled in underpasses. There’s an even harder to see section of the homeless moving from sofa to spare room …
The Effing and Blinding Cabaret offers entertainment that can’t be seen at all but is still cabaret… five blind performers do songs and sketches in total darkness. Without dwelling on the novelty of the situation, the songs and sketches are surreal cabaret subjects such as …
Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …
Bourgeois and Maurice. Image by The Two We witnessed the devastating glamour, glory and grot of Georgeois Bourgeois & Maurice Maurice at GSK Contemporary late night cabaret at the Royal Academy not long ago and we just had to share them with you. Words failed …
It went ahead but our worst fears weren’t realised; he wasn’t allowed into Stockwell tube station or onto the platform, thankfully. With cooperation from the police, Mark McGowan managed to stage his reenactment of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell tube on …
German boy-girl graffiti team, Herakut, are back in London with a new show, titled Dirty Laundry and running until the 7th of December. That’s not a lot of time to examine their stains – so we advise getting over the 22 Wellington Street (WC2E 7DD) …
And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon… south London soil, Doing the Lambeth Walk? Though reading like a specially written song to celebrate a different Blake’s release to walk free on London land, this specially adapted verse is actually to draw your attention …
With Christmas creeping up on us, London’s arts and theatre scene begins to slide into festive mayhem. Don’t worry; your Londonist Fairy Godmother enters in a cloud of glitter stage right, to sort the handsome princes from the ugly sisters. If you can’t stand panto, …
If we were ill we’d definitely hope to see our doctor wielding a stethoscope rather than a sketchbook – but from Da Vinci’s anatomical drawings to Damien Hirst’s medicine cabinets, art has long been influenced by medicine. A new exhibition now aims to prove that …
Tucked away about 5 minutes from the dilapidated 70s mall charm of Elephant and Castle, past that partially boarded up estate at the west end of New Kent Road, and a pub which claims to be the ‘only English owned pub left on Harper Road’, …
It’s only Monday afternoon and we already have a winner for the WTF and FFS award of the week. Artist Mark McGowan will be re-enacting the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes this coming Saturday afternoon, at Stockwell station where the original incident took place. …
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