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A stunning, silly gallery of the pinkest stuff that London has to offer. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Sweet Toof depicts a grim, death riddled world, with desperate forces assembling to spread vibrant and illicit pinks and greens across an otherwise drab and neutral landscape.

Rising Stars in Bethnalham opens today at High Roller Society with an eclectic mix of art inspired or otherwise derived from London’s East End.

This week’s Arts Ahead features plenty of festive fare for younger theatre audiences, as well as some Shakespeare, some schmaltz, an annual Snowman, and a touch of ventriloquism. There’s also a smattering of exciting new contemporary art shows, and a new Climate Change gallery opening at the Science Museum…

Photo by Christopher Burke, courtesy Hauser & Wirth, © Louise Bourgeois Trust “The Fabric Works” features more than seventy of Louise Bourgeois’s fabric drawings as well as four large-scale sculptures (rest assured there’s a signature Bourgeois giant mother spider for you to ponder). Made between 2002 and …

Image courtesy of Diemar/Noble   Tapping into the spirit of Mexico’s bicentennial celebrations, Quetzalcoatl: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo allows Londoners a poignant glimpse into Mexican life during 20th century. Featuring black and white photographs from the 1920s through to the 90s by Manuel Alvarez …

Art Saves Lives and Artists Studio Company opened the doors of a new theatre, performance and gallery space HOT TAP last Wednesday. Situated not 2 minutes down the side of New Cross Gate station, HOT TAP was whipped into shape by the graft of enthusiastic …

For those who find the current Maps exhibition at the British Library a little academic, here’s a possible antidote. Iniva gallery on Rivington Place has a new exhibition in which nine international artists provide their own takes on mapping. Indeed, Whose Map Is It? stretches …

‘An Academy of Investigations’ is a fascinating collective exhibition that begins on Friday at the intimate Madame Lillie’s gallery in Stoke Newington. The collective comprises five London-based artists – Ambrosine Allen, Jonathan Gildersleeves, Amy Green, Colin Marsh and Uma Mahadeva. Their work is very much …

Photograph by George Rodger, copyright Magnum Photos, courtesy of Diemar/Noble Photography One of the 20th century’s most important and constantly on-the-go photojournalists, George Rodger set a tone and standard for reportage photography that still holds relevance in today’s digital age. The founder of Magnum (and …