For contemporary craft fans who like hand-made jewellery, original textiles and surprising innovations in all things related to craft, get down to Origin: The London Craft Fair at Somerset House ASAP. Organised by the Craft Council this is a two-week festival with a changeover between week one and two which is an indication of how much there is to see and experience. (There'll be no activity on Monday 13 when teh changeover happens so......

Rivane Neuenschwander, 'Suspension Point', 2008, drilled holes, dust, installation view. Photo by Andy Keate Walking into Rivane Neuenschwander's Suspension Point, the South London Gallery's bright, spacious interior is obscured by gloom. Allowing your eyes to adjust to the murk, the reason becomes clear: a wooden mezzanine has been constructed at roughly the midway point of the gallery's height, covering the entire space, with the only illumination coming through a staircase that leads up to the......

Hoxton Square was taken over last week by an alien species. Not by crowds of patent-heeled, artfully styled students and designers - though they were there too, in record numbers - but by the weird and fantastic creations of the Kinetica Museum's artists. Held in the Rove Gallery and part of the East London Concrete and Glass festival, Creatures Great and Small features what must surely be some of the quirkiest offerings of the......

Image from Caul by Dryden Goodwin For the last show at its Newport Street location, the Photographer's Gallery is hosting Cast, a solo exhibition by street snapper Dryden Goodwin, who - in the manner of Garry Winogrand, or more contemporaneously, Philip-Lorca diCorcia - takes apparently candid shots of unwitting passers-by. In the gallery's first piece, Cradle, five black and white photographs of Londoners taken around the West End are blown up to large scale. On......

Who would have thought that fish embryos could be so hypnotic? Under the microscope, they tumble and turn like marbles, executing the occasional piscine wriggle at camera. These dainty roe are zebrafish, whose unusual transparency is a boon for medical research. Scientists intensely breed the fish and tweak their genes in pursuit of knowledge about disease. Artist Kathleen Rogers wants us to think about this manipulation of life, and certainly generates a meditative atmosphere......

If each generation gets the art it deserves, perhaps future historians will rifle through digitised copies of the dominant literature of our time - Heat, Grazia and the biographies of Messrs Beckham, Katona et al - and conclude that, yes, a 50kg solid gold statue of a supermodel is a fitting tribute to the early 21st century. Mark Quinn's £1.5m likeness of Kate Moss, which we mentioned earlier in the year, was today unveiled at......

Deptford. Yes, that bit opposite the Isle of Dogs that isn't smart Greenwich. Borders Blackheath, yeah? Bet you didn't know it's a contemporary visual arts hotspot, did you? If you did, then you've clearly been to Deptford X at some point in its 10 year history. Describing itself as "an arts event born of Deptford’s creative community and based on a belief in the limitless potential of the area" the programme looks both baffling......

Drift 08 is awfully appealing as an idea, linking the concepts of drifting down a river with the currently fashionable notion of the drift in a psycho geographical sense meaning to wander the streets. Installation art is meant to either inform the viewer about its location or shock viewers into seeing it in a different way. In theory this should have been a treat, a conversation with the location not just an entertainment. It’s......

Let's be honest: You've been hearing for ages about how New Cross is the super hip new neighbourhood, that's all sorts of amazing arts related activities are going on down there, and you're absolutely going to chceck it out. But you haven't. If ever there was an excuse to go exloring, than Saturday's Nail the Cross is it. Stretching across six venues and many many hours, Nail The Cross is featuring dozens of bands......

This semi-apocalyptic artwork from Bermondsey school children covers the hoardings around PriceWaTerHouseRaNdomCapsCooPer's new building, under construction at More London. The kids from St Michael's Catholic School don't need Photoshop to unleash seven shades of Hell on the capital. They've got paint brushes, and bags of imagination. Meteor strikes, a giant robot, TIE fighter attack and, um, a tightrope-walking Boris are just a few of their twisted visions for the Thames. See the archive of previous......

T1 and T2 Gallery is directly adjacent to Paradise Row on the converted first floor of what was once St Matthews Church Hall on Hereford Street, off Cheshire Street, Brick Lane. They run joint and/or parallel shows which literally run into each other - sharing the same roof space - which makes for an interesting arrangement by the curators. Stylised documentary and investigation run through the current exhibitions, with surprisingly stimulating results. 'Moths To/From......

Step from the rush of London's business district and into Wouldn't it Be Nice at Somerset House's Embankment Galleries, and you'd be forgiven for thinking you've accidentally wandered into some eccentric multimillionaire's bachelor pad. Complete with remote-controlled cars, oversized couches, and slick furniture from the likes of Martino Gamper, the exhibition exudes a kind of aspirational cool with a touch of Alice in Wonderland about it. Cars dominate the first floor, including the contribution......

On Tuesday, artist Nils Norman will be giving a talk at London Transport Museum, discussing his public commissions and poster artworks, including 'Ideal City' and 'Fantasy Piccadilly Line' for Piccadilly Underground station and Piccadilly line trains. You and A.N.Other can be there for free by entering the no strings, no stress, no question, no problem giveaway below. We'll pick a winner on Monday lunchtime and notify them by email. You need to be able......

Sounds like a bizarre parlour game, doesn’t it? In fact that’s exactly what it was in Victorian times – and national treasure Quentin Blake has resurrected the idea for a new exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The show consists of 40 or so sketches by slebs (including Anna Ford and Brian Eno) illustrating various characteristics of their lives: they are displayed anonymously so that visitors can go round and guess which belongs to......

Any concern that Damien Hirst's audacious auction would be crimped by the financial market's manic Monday meltdown quickly abated yesterday. With more than 160 lots yet to be sold, the artist has already racked up over £70m at Sotheby's, which is auctioning original pieces direct from his show Beautiful Inside My Head with no hint of a gallery fee in sight. While Hirst's acumen is unquestioned, his auction has provoked diverse opinion: Robert Hughes lambasted......

Choreographer Wayne McGregor has compiled a giddy programme for Deloitte Ignite, Friday 12 - Sunday 14 September at the Royal Opera House. All events are free and you will see this grand building in a different light. Art installations, kinetic sound sculptures, chocolate tasting, a room full of perfumed feathers and a virtual game playing against (or with?) teams in Mile End Park guarantee a feast for all the senses. Check out the full programme......

The art world is currently buzzing about one of the biggest and least publicised shows of the year. Bucking the tradition of going through galleries, Damien Hirst, he of the diamond encrusted skull, has decided to put his new works up for sale through Sotheby's. Over 200 works will be going under the hammer Monday and Tuesday, but until then Sotheby's is hosting the biggest ever Hirst show. The works are mostly more of......

September is up to the eyeballs with amazing events and things to do. For those who like their cultural outings to be as cutting edge and experimental as possible, there is Collision, a three night festival of music, film, visual art and live performance. Aptly named not only because the other collider is going to be turned on this week, but also because you can expect artists working at the bleeding edge of their......

A relatively new space in Hoxton Square, KK Outlet is named after their publishing company KesselsKramer, which specialise in testing the boundaries of traditional publishing in their art-based book series. Through 14 September, art/retail space KK Outlet plays exclusive host to an original collection of graphic design art prints by London-based, French artist Damien Poulain. His Le Nouveau Riche exhibition holds a mirror to our cultural currency worship with notable standouts as the triptych......

Anything with the words "featuring Jedi Jugglers" fills us full of dread. Well, fills us with a mental image of middle class boys called Crispin or Nathan wearing combat trousers and flicking their dreadlocks around whilst earnestly juggling like soldiers going off to war in 1914. But this "illumination extravaganza", is in the crypt of St Pancras Church on Euston Road, which fact alone guaranteed our attendance at their public opening. Great pains were......

From tomorrow, watch out for brand new poster art works, inspired by the ubiquitous tube roundel, which is celebrating its 100th birthday, on a platform near you. The posters are teasers to tempt you to an exhibition of 100 new roundel artworks at the Rochelle School in Shoreditch, where we told you to go and see the Le Gun thing, between 8-30 October.......

Street artist Slinkachu released four new tiny sculptures into the city to mark the launch of his new book this week and five intrepid hunters from the Londonist team set out to find them in a specially designed treasure hunt. In an afternoon's muggy and damp tramping around, we went from the COSH gallery where Slinkachu's work is on display into the West End, to South Bank and right the way over to Brick Lane.......

You presumably already know about the collective of illustrators that is Le Gun, and their superb book/magazine of illustrations, and other artistic goings on. Well, this time they've put on a show. A queue? A bloody great big queue greets us as we try and enter the show, hidden away on Arnold Circus behind Shoreditch Church, like a lost location in a children's book. Thankfully the queue is only for the bar, and we......

A likeness of Kate Moss cast in gold and potentially weighing more than Kate Moss is just one of the figures that will be featured at the British Museum from 4 October. The statue by Marc Quinn (who famously created a bust of himself from eight pints of his own blood) is for the exhibition Statuephilia. Weighing in at 50kg, the British Museum has only released an extreme close-up shot of the statue, so......

Huntsmen and their hounds in Oxford Street, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) Back in days of yore, before Flickr gave ordinary Jones' ample opportunity to display their badly-framed mobile phone snaps to the world, the rhythm of London life was captured by various professional photographers, from a variety of sources, including the influential Picture Post. Such work has been diligently collected over the years by Getty, and the fruits of their Hulton Archive have......

We were rather impressed by the Hayward's Psycho Buildings exhibition when it opened back in May, and Londoners appear to have shared our enthusiasm: the show has been packed out all summer. It closes on Bank Holiday Monday, meaning this weekend is your last chance to row a jerry-rigged boat across a flooded sculpture garden or see the London skyline from atop a giant inflatable bubble. The gallery is open till 10pm tonight, tickets are......

If you're going to launch your overpriced mag in London, best make it stand out from the usual glut of freesheets, tossed-off glossy mags and flyers that clog shelf space in any hipster hangout worth its Cheap Monday jeans. At the UK launch of Brooklyn photography magazine Capricious last night, hosted at Hoxton Square's KK Outlet we lost count of how often the shop assistant had to tell people that the edition they were......

According to the British Journal of Photography, the Barbican Art Gallery will be the first exhibition space in the world to host a recently-discovered collection of photographs by war photographer Robert Capa. The "Mexico Suitcase", a collection of 3,500 negatives shot by Capa and Magnum co-founder 'Chim' Seymour, plus Capa's girlfriend Gerda Taro, was bought from the descendant of a Mexican general by the International Centre for Photography at the beginning of the year.......

London's cultural scene steams into August with an eclectic range of arty goings on. Those of you with art collections to refresh are in luck this week. Contemporary Arts Project's "Start You Collection" are offering a whole load of "highly collectible" art for under £200 from Friday, asking, "Without our art collections, how would we understand our cultural roots and trace its development to the present?" Indeed. And let's face it, if you can't......

Take care going near Chelsea Bridge tonight – you’ll need to go Against The Stream. As the sky darkens, this art event’s participants will don their high visibility jackets… and start walking backwards. This is an In Transit event by artist Aaron Williamson who will film then screen the event. Head down there and see what it’s like when you go against the stream. Are you going the wrong way or are they? Work it......