There's masses going on for us culture vultures to choose from this week. First Thursdays As it's the start of March, it's First Thursdays this week. More than 80 galleries and museums will be open til 9pm across East London. We recommend John Squire's (yes, him from the Stone Roses) Re-engineered Garments; alternatively, pretend you're an alien at the Barbican. The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art opens this Thursday. East is East East London's......

Following the Oscars this weekend there are free film screenings all over town this week. Edify thyself and make new friends running across 5 different genres of movie for no expenditure whatsoever. Monday: The Duke Mitchell Film Club is holding heist night at the Cross Kings Bar on York Way with a long lost Italian heist movie "Seven Golden Men". The film starts at 8pm but there's also a "trailer trash" collection of vintage......

The second part in our guide to the best holiday season art exhibitions (read Part 1). Design Museum: Robert Brownjohn Retrospective of the American graphic designer at his peak in the 50’s and 60’s. His work includes the title sequences for the James Bond films Goldfinger and album artwork for the Rolling Stones. Why you should see it: Brownjohn injected a little rock’n’roll into modern typography. He’s like the Jagger of font, man. Design Museum,......

This week must be the week for a bit of Christmas cheesiness. Yesterday we had Camden Arts Centre showing Bing Crosby's White Christmas along with mince pies and mulled wine; and today we hear that the London Eye has gone and installed a snow globe in one of its pods. The idea is to give passengers a bird's-eye view of what a white Christmas in London would look like. So models of some of the......

"Christmas as it should be". That's how Camden Arts Centre is billing its Christmas Clichés Party, which takes place tonight. And they're not kidding about the clichés. There will be mulled wine, mince pies, a "Christmas performance", and to top it all off, a screening of the 1954 Bing Crosby classic White Christmas. Londonist can't decide if this is sincere, ironic or 'post-ironic'...but maybe we're reading too much into it. Maybe we should just......