Title: Secret Blisters
Location: Print Club London, Dalston
Description: An exhibition of 35 illustrators. 35 edition and hand signed prints with works by Eine, Anthony Burrill, Kate Moross etc
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-06-26

Title: Sigmund Freud\’s Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity & Will Holder in Conversation with Emily King
Location: Whitechapel galery
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-06-11

Title: Marcus Coates
Location: The Coronet Theatre - SE1 6TJ
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-06-05

Nomad and Qu Junktions present ‘A Ritual for Elephant & Castle’ featuring Marcus Coates performing live with Chrome Hoof, Wildbirds & Peacedrums and a 20-piece live drum circle, plus very special guests and DJs.

The Coronet Theatre
Elephant & Castle
London SE1 6TJ

Friday June 5, 2009
7pm—12am, tickets £6 ADV

The highly anticipated collusion of artist / shapeshifter Marcus Coates and the thunder, rock and disco of the mighty Chrome Hoof is a fanciful and fantastic proposition. Add to this cauldron the energy of Wildbirds & Peacedrums and it is an explosive evening of possibilities and happenings.
Marcus Coates is both shaman and showman, entering other worlds to find extraordinary answers for modern life. Coates’ collaboration with a band as dazzling and powerful as the mighty Chrome Hoof is a new but not unsurprising development for Coates…

for more info and tickets
http://www.nomad.org.uk
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

Title: Super Contemporary
Location: Design Museum
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-06-02
Show: 03 June – 04 October

At the heart of the exhibition are fifteen commissions from some of London’s most dynamic creatives, as a group they demonstrate the diverse approaches to design in London:

Bus Shelter by David Adjaye. Gone with the Wind by Ron Arad. Listening Station by BarberOsgerby. Freedom Space by Neville Brody. Batterseum by Nigel Coates. Rain It In by Paul Cocksedge. London Transport by Tom Dixon. Horatio’s Garden by El Ultimo Grito with Urban Salon. Thames Pin by Kit Grover. Vision for the city of London by Zaha Hadid. K9 Post Office Kiosk by Industrial Facility. Lamp Post Chandelier by Thomas Heatherwick. KiosKiosk by Wayne Hemingway. Head to Toe by Ross Phillips. New London Rubbish Bin by Paul Smith.

* scenography by Martino Gamper and Bibliotheque

Gallery Talks
Get right under the skin of all things Super Contemporary by joining one of our free gallery talks. A Design Museum curator or design specialist will be on hand to guide you round the show in one of our 30 minute talks. No pre-booking but spaces are limited.

Sunday 14 June, 12 noon
Sunday 19 July, 12 noon
Sunday 9 August, 12 noon
Sunday 13 September, 12 noon

from the DM’s website:

Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to celebrate the fearlessly progressive spirit of London’s greatest creative minds, past and present. London thinks, designs and makes like no other city; it creates and the world follows. A magnet for mavericks and freethinkers, London has nurtured a creative community that continues to rival all other design capitals.

These creative networks have spurred each other on. This exhibition will illustrate London’s pursuit of new, better and braver, across architecture, industrial design, graphics, fashion and communications alike. Endlessly pushing at the forefront of design and constantly inventing for new worlds, London’s design output is continually Super Contemporary.

Title: Trespassers of the World Unite
Location: 9 Kingsland Road, London E2
Description: collaboration artworks from Dicy, Paris, Butch, Late, Bomb, Ekoe, Zime, Crackrock, Influenza, space3, Mr Jago, Will Barrass, Erosie, Phet15 and Rabodiga.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-05-28

Title: United Visual Artists
Location: The Smithfield Gallery
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-06-02

First solo exhibition for UVA: series of photographic light-boxes, based on visits to post-industrial sites around the UK

The Smithfield Gallery
16 West Smithfield
London EC1A 9HY

www.thesmithfieldgallery.com

Title: Futurism
Location: Tate Modern
Date: 2009-06-12

Futurism was an art movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. That moment saw the birth of the Futurists, a small group of radical Italian artists working just before the outbreak of World War 1.

Among modernist movements, the Futurists rejected anything old and looked towards a new Italy. This was partly because the weight of past culture in Italy was felt as particularly oppressive. In his Manifesto, Marinetti asserted ‘we will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries.’

What the Futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology: ‘We declare … a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing motor car … is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace’ (the celebrated ancient Greek sculpture in the Louvre museum in Paris). From an original blend of elements of Neo-Impressionism and Cubism, the Futurists created a new style that expressed the idea of the dynamism, energy and movement of modern life. The chief artists were Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini and Luigi Russolo.

Tate Modern celebrates the centenary of this dramatic art movement with a ground-breaking exhibition. Here you’ll see the work of the Futurists accompanied by rooms looking at art movements reacting to Futurism, including Cubism, the British art movement Vorticism, and Russian Cubo-Futurism.

Highlights include Boccioni’s dynamic bronze sculpture of a man which seems to leap through thin air, Picasso’s Head of a Woman, Nevinson’s Vorticist masterpiece Bursting Shell, and works by major artists such as Braque, Leger, Malevich, and Duchamp.

on till 20 September 2009.

Title: Kitsuné Maison Party
Location: Scala - Penton Rd
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2009-06-20

KITSUNE MAISON PARTY
Saturday 20th June | Scala ,KIngs Cross | 8pm - 4.30am

Main Rm
AUTOKRATZ - live
CHEW LIPS - live
DELPHIC - live
INFLAGRANTI - live
WE HAVE BAND - live
YOUNG AND LOST CLUB

Rm 2
AEROPLANE
BENI
GILDAS & MASAYA
STREETLIFE DJ’s

Foyer
LAST FM Dj Team

Title: History Repeats Itself
Location: Brick Lane Gallery London
Description: Exhibition by the Winchester School of Art Graphics Programme
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-05-30

30 May 2 — 6pm

A Shared History of Play
Marie O’Connor & Peter Nencini

A Short History of Design Publishing — some books from Hyphen Press
Roland Früh

A History of Some Self-Initiated Work in Graphic Design
James Goggin, Practise

A Future History of the Book
Sarah Gottlieb

Seriously Forks #4: History Repeats like a Rehearsal for a Show we are not Meant to Do
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Title: Science and the Nation
Location: E:vent Gallery
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-05-29

Speakers: Revital Cohen, Martin Conreen, Emily Dawson, Anna Dumitriu, Ben Johnson, Kira O’Reilly & Janet Smith, Rob La Frenais, Brendan Walker

Guest curated by Tobie Kerridge & Elio Caccavale

Science and the Nation is the title of a book collectively written by the Association of Scientific Workers and published in 1947, offering a rousing appeal for the transformation of post-war Britain:

“Scientists can only make things possible, but it is the responsibility of every citizen to get things done”.

Tired of waiting for the green shoots of recovery from our contemporary crisis? Come and hear alternative manifestos for Science and the Nation from key interdisciplinary practitioners.