EventExhibitions
Anish Kapoor
Mirrors, dark surfaces and large sculptural forms at the Hayward. An exhibition to approach with your eyes and your sense of space.
The London edit
This weekend in London
Follow the river, linger over lunch or let a collection fill the afternoon. London has plenty of ways to change the plan. The weekend runs from Friday evening through Sunday. Find dated events first, then places to visit, tables to book and rooms to explore after dark.
On the calendar
EventExhibitions
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.
EventCulture
Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie at Friday Lates
Poetry and painting meet in a book conversation at the National Gallery’s Pigott Theatre.
EventExhibitions
Ana Mendieta
Body, landscape and belonging through Ana Mendieta’s photographs, films and sculpture at Tate Modern.
EventActivities
FLOP! The Best Songs from the Worst Musicals
Arthur Hull finds songs worth rescuing from musicals that missed their moment, in a cabaret at Wilton’s Music Hall.
EventConcerts
Death Cab for Cutie at Troxy
Death Cab for Cutie play two nights at Troxy around their John Congleton-produced album I Built You a Tower.
EventConcerts
Central – Youandewan b2b Liquid Earth, Laurine + Ron Obvious
Central brings Youandewan back to back with Liquid Earth, plus Laurine and Ron Obvious, for a full night of house-led club music in Shoreditch.
EventConcerts
A Slow Jams Day Party
Room 187’s Slow Jams party shifts the weekend towards R&B, neo-soul and slower grooves, with dancing scheduled in the afternoon and evening.
EventConcerts
AVA London: Skin On Skin Presents
Skin On Skin, Evian Christ, Croatian Amor and mi-el share an overnight AVA London bill at EartH Hall.
EventConcerts
Lee Burridge at KOKO
Lee Burridge leads an overnight house bill with Birds of Mind, Adassiya and Share at KOKO.
EventConcerts
Pale Waves at KOKO
Pale Waves take KOKO’s early Friday slot for an alternative-pop show before the venue switches to its late-night programme.
EventConcerts
Sigma: Daytime at KOKO
Sigma brings drum and bass to KOKO in an afternoon-to-evening session that leaves the rest of Saturday open.
EventConcerts
DESIREE at KOKO
DESIREE takes over KOKO for a Saturday house session running through to Sunday morning.
EventConcerts
Soul Sounds of the 70s with VULA
VULA leads a Sunday celebration of 1970s soul, drawing on songs associated with Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick and Donny Hathaway.
EventExhibitions
Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now
More than 200 works by 27 artists trace the range of post-war and contemporary Japanese photography at The Photographers’ Gallery.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Roots at The Photographers’ Gallery
Trees, memory and the altered landscape connect a group presentation in the gallery’s Print Sales space.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Listening to the Earth
Ten artists use earth as subject and material, from pigments and ash to slate, photography and field recordings.
EventConcerts
Samba Touré Plays the Ali Farka Touré Songbook
Samba Touré revisits Ali Farka Touré’s repertoire in a guitar-led concert drawing on northern Mali’s musical traditions.