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......

We all know about the imperilled rainforests, but the world's coral reefs are also disappearing faster than you can say "So long, and thanks for all the fish". Artists Margaret and Christine Wertheim from LA's Institute of Figuring bring this wonder of nature to the Hayward Gallery via the medium of crocheting (a craft a bit like knitting, with looping stitches and a single hooked needle). The exhibition mixes together handicrafts, mathematics and ecology......

Sitting in a jerry-rigged boat, floating in a flooded sculpture park atop the Hayward as the sun bustles through the clouds and lights up the London Eye, the building's Brutalist architecture almost melts away and resolves itself into a dystopian reverie, one not entirely unpleasant: the capital has been lost, and the temples of culture abandoned to the damp elements. It's a daydream easy to believe in, until the wetsuit-wearing gallery aid comes and......

Earth shattering revelation of the day: Met Commissioner says parents key to bringing up children who don't carry weapons. Yep, apparently so. Unlikely news of the day: Hayward Gallery goes psycho. We'll be there later this week. Motoring news of the day: Lorries park up and protest Faintly amusing news pun of the day: Pawn very popular. Hah. Ha ha. Marvel-lous news of the day: 3D comic book superheroes to go on display Image......

Hooray for 4 day weeks! And hooray for many seasonal celebrations. If only it would stop raining we'd be radiant with joy. This week we definitely can't afford to see the glorious New York City Ballet at the Coliseum (up to £95 a ticket!) so we made do with the reviews. Neither can we cover the costs of a bank holiday break away from the city but, hell - why would we want to......

As you all know, Londonist doesn’t just enjoy sarcastically mocking aspects of our fair city. No, far from it – we also like to help people out from time to time. So, we were only too pleased to offer our help when San Francisco-based artist and comedian Marc Horowitz contacted us to assist him in setting up his forthcoming show at the Hayward Gallery. Not one to run from a challenge, Horowitz has agreed......

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won't already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we'll see what we can move from our sack to your stockings... For the friends and family members who seem to always be busy with art exhibitions, arthouse films, dance, theatre and music of a more......

The Mayor of London wants you to stay up late. Stay up late for the Lates October season. He wanted you to cut back on sleep and catch up on culture back in May when the first Lates season was launched, now it's October, he wants you to check out the things you miss during the day in the big museums and galleries. Have you been meaning to see something at any of the......

Dance can often seem an intimidating or impenetrable art form for the non-pointy toed punter so here are our top 4 recommendations for shows to see in the rest of 2007. All will blow your mind in different ways. Go pop your dance cherry on the coolest shows around. Zero Degrees 16-20 October, Sadlers Wells Another chance to catch this unique artistic collaboration between dancers and choreographers Akram Khan and Sidi Labi Cherkaoui, composer......

Sprawl's always-interesting Interplay festival returns to The Spitz tonight with the fourth instalment in its ongoing series of digital art collaborations. For over a decade Iris Garrelfs and Douglas Benford's collective have brought us events from some of the most exciting names in contemporary experimental electronic music, with past Interplay rosters including Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider and Pole. Focusing on collaboration in the hopes that "unlikely - like - minds meet each other and......

Sitting outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall on a sunny weekend afternoon a month or so ago this Londonista was thrown into anxiety spasms sighting a man apparently about to leap off the roof of Shell Mex House and plunge to his death in the Thames. He stayed unnervingly still balanced up there on the edge with no clothes on. Clearly, I just don’t care enough because I had tickets to a show and put......

Antony Gormley's rooftop statues are this year's Sultan's Elephant. The tourist bewilderment devices (TBDs) have been appearing on the highpoints around the Hayward Gallery like petrified chimneysweeps. In response to our first post about this, someone suggested we map them. Well, here you go. It's a work in progress, and we'll add to it as more of the iron brutes get erected. Let us know if you've spotted further statues, or if we've got......

The ever-kooky Tracey Emin wants us all to get amorous in the long grass this summer, inspired by her latest piece. The rather large flag, which is a backdrop of swimming sperm with the words “One Secret Is To Save Everything” written in large red letters, will be on display at Jubilee Gardens until 31 July as the second in a series of artworks commissioned by the Southbank Centre. Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff......

The Hayward Gallery wants you to get all freaky on their ass, and produce some bonkers video content to use in their 60 Second Surreal exhibition. The idea is that you record a minute-long snippet of video (and not just your cat asleep, it's got to be pretty damn weird), which you then send to the good people at the Hayward and then they pick the best to showcase at the National Film Theatre......

If you’re the type to enjoy a trip to the cinema at weekends but you’re getting tired of badly-lit Ukrainian experimental docu-dramas at your local art house emporium then the Brixton Ritzy offers an alternative. Instead of picking up popcorn and a migraine from hard-to-read subtitles, you can shop for some original artworks and handcrafted items at the Fair Art art fair every Saturday in the cinema foyer throughout the summer. “Young, up-and-coming designers......

Three men in their early 20s were stabbed in the ticket hall at Holloway Road Tube station last night. One is serious but stable with stomach injuries. The other two have cuts to their hands and arms. One man has been arrested. A reporter for the Daily Mirror has been arrested after trying to land a job at Buckingham Palace. The farce surrounding the rebuilding of the Royal London hospital and St Bartholomew's is apparently......

It is a truth universally acknowledged that London loves tourists and tourists love London - despite the lamentations of some patrons of our city. A new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is due to open on Thursday 6th October, and not only are you invited to view it but also contribute and become part of it yourself. Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye brings together 50 international artists who will display their......

When MTV hit the world in the 80s, did you have dreams of sporting a Flock of Seagulls hair style and introducing the newest Ah-Ha video Take on Me? When you go out on a Friday night and the DJ on decks is spinning something which you think you could definitely do better, do you wish that you could push him off the stage and take over? Do you have a knack for electronics......

Londonist visited the Hayward Gallery this weekend to see their newest exhibition, Rebecca Horn "Bodylandscapes." Londonist has never been a huge fan of Rebecca Horn, we could just not wrap our head around why an artist would strap a series of pencils to her face and proceed to draw by sweeping them back and forth across a canvas, but this exhibition was a Sunday afternoon well-spent. Horn's exhibition (although still not a favourite) is......

If, like Londonist, you've been trying to remember to tape BBC2's History of Magic series on Saturday nights (impeccable scheduling once again BBC2!), then you might want to cancel anything you had planned for tomorrow night and get down to the Hayward Gallery. As part of their Eyes, Lies and Illusions exhibition The Hayward is hosting For Example, a show by magician Christopher Howell and artist Olivia Plender "Part magic show, part séance" the......