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Anish Kapoor
Mirrors, dark surfaces and large sculptural forms at the Hayward. An exhibition to approach with your eyes and your sense of space.
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Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
Fashion as a way of making art, from Elsa Schiaparelli’s experiments to the house today. A separately ticketed exhibition at the V&A.
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Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation
A painting and its sculptural response meet in one room. This free National Gallery exhibition opens on 15 October.
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Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie at Friday Lates
Poetry and painting meet in a book conversation at the National Gallery’s Pigott Theatre.
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Ana Mendieta
Body, landscape and belonging through Ana Mendieta’s photographs, films and sculpture at Tate Modern.
On the house
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Cecilia Vicuña: Foraging Quipu
A free stop in Whitechapel Gallery’s autumn programme, showing Cecilia Vicuña’s Foraging Quipu in Gallery 4.
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Mungo’s HiFi (Daytime Session)
Mungo’s HiFi brings a Halloween daytime session of dub and sound-system music to Village Underground, with the Glasgow collective shaping an afternoon-to-evening dance.
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girli
girli brings the It’s Just My Opinion era to a Sunday-night live show, with Ellie Dixon announced in support.
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Euchar Gravina: Once upon a place
Chamber music, electronics and choir explore how places survive in sound, with works by Nono, Janulytė, Cerrone and Gravina among a wide contemporary programme.
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Ghostly Kisses
Québec dream-pop project Ghostly Kisses brings its intimate, atmospheric songs to a Tuesday evening at Village Underground.
On the house
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Free Friday: Gareth Davies plays Loggins-Hull, Liebermann and Reich
LSO principal flute Gareth Davies takes the lunchtime spotlight in music by Allison Loggins-Hull, Lowell Liebermann and Steve Reich.
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MGNA Crrrta + daine + Touching Ice
MGNA Crrrta, daine and Touching Ice share a Pitchfork London bill, bringing multiple voices from experimental pop and electronic music into one evening.
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David Önaç: Atlantic Requiem
A new requiem commemorates Africans trafficked into slavery, combining orchestral and choral writing with influences from spirituals, jazz and gospel.
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Lido Pimienta + AMORE + Ms Ray
Lido Pimienta leads a Pitchfork London evening with AMORE and Ms Ray, putting an adventurous multi-artist programme into Village Underground.
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Sibelius, Vaughan Williams and Dubugnon with Janine Jansen
Janine Jansen joins Antonio Pappano for Richard Dubugnon’s new violin concerto, alongside Sibelius’s The Swan of Tuonela and Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia antartica.
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bby
London five-piece bby brings its independent-minded live show to Village Underground for a Tuesday night of guitar-led music.
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Symphonic Gospel: A Gospel Christmas
André J Thomas and pianist Brandon A Boyd join the LSO and community choirs for an evening of gospel arrangements at the Barbican.
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Red Axes
Red Axes heads a Friday club night with Harri Pepper and FAR, linked to the duo’s fabric presents release.
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Half Six Fix: Prokofiev with Gianandrea Noseda
Noseda introduces suites from The Love for Three Oranges and Chout in an early-evening concert built around Prokofiev’s wit and theatrical energy.
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Grace Cummings
Grace Cummings performs with a full band at Village Underground, bringing the Bloodhorse era to an early Saturday live show.
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Prokofiev and Shostakovich with Leonidas Kavakos
Kavakos plays Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto between Prokofiev suites from The Love for Three Oranges and Chout.
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Le Boom + AE MAK
Le Boom brings live electronics and spoken-word energy to a Sunday show, with AE_MAK joining the bill.
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LSO Family Concert: December
A participatory orchestral afternoon introduces children aged seven to twelve to live instruments, with Paul Rissmann and conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire.
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MF Robots
MF Robots brings Dawnn Joseph and the live band to Village Underground, with Abi Clarke announced for DJ duties around the performance.