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Your month-by-month guide to the best new events in London

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This week's hottest London events

  1. Prometheus
  2. London Zoo Lates
  3. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012
  4. Secret Cinema
  5. World Street Food Festival
  6. Field Day
  7. The Big British Tea Party
  8. David Guetta
  9. Henry Moore: Large Late Forms
  10. Coldplay
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Time Out's critics recommend the best films, shows, exhibitions, events and restaurants in London right now

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Welcome to Time Out's London events calendar. In this guide you'll find our hand-picked selection of the best new events that begin this month, next month and indeed every month. From theatre, exhibition and film openings to gigs, festivals and comedy, if it's new, it's here - dive in!

April-June 2012 highlights

April-June 2012 events in London

  • The Cabin in the Woods

    Film 

    Every few years, a horror movie comes along that promises to revitalise the genre, sometimes for ...

  • British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age

    ArtCritics' choice Until Sun Aug 12, V&A

    The V&A bigs up British innovation in this major survey of postwar design by individuals born, tr...

    Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games

  • Dave Gorman's Powerpoint Presentation

    ComedyCritics' choice Until Sat Jun 16, Queen Elizabeth Hall

    One of the pioneers of documentary comedy continues his love affair with Powerpoint as he teams u...

    Dave Gorman

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    TheatreCritics' choice Until Sat Aug 18, Apollo Shaftesbury

    After heading up a superb revival of Miller's 'All My Sons' in 2010, David Suchet returns in anot...

  • Kew Palace annual opening

    Museums & Attractions Until Sun Sep 30, Kew Gardens

    Annual opening of Kew Palace, a brick mansion with a distinctly Dutch look. In the eighteenth cen...

  • Tate Oil Tanks

    Art Jul 1-Dec 30, Tate Modern

    The first phase of Tate Modern's expansion plans opens (albeit temporarily) in time for the 2012 ...

  • Damien Hirst

    ArtCritics' choice Until Sun Sep 9, Tate Modern

    This first major museum survey in this country of the work of the most well-known 'Young British ...

    Damien Hirst, 'Pharmacy', 1992

  • The Duchess of Malfi

    TheatreCritics' choice Until Sat Jun 9, Old Vic

    Jamie Lloyd's revival of John Webster's savagely poetic 'The Duchess of Malfi' is unlikely to mak...

    Eve Best

  • The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned

    Museums & Attractions Until Sun Sep 30, Hampton Court Palace

    Beauty, debauchery and decadent art at the late-Stuart court is the subject of this exhibition. T...

    Portrait of Nell Gwyn as Venus c.1668, Peter Lely

  • Family in War

    Museums & Attractions Until Feb 29 2016, Imperial War Museum

    An exhibition looking at the Home Front during WWII through the eyes of the Allpress family, who ...

  • Animal Inside Out

    Museums & Attractions Until Sun Sep 16, Natural History Museum

    An exhibition by the team behind Gunther von Hagens's 'Body Worlds', examining the biology, anato...

  • American Pie: The Reunion

    Film From Fri Apr 6

    13 years after the original ‘American Pie’, the beloved characters return for the fourth inst...

  • This Must Be the Place

    Film From Fri Apr 6

    With ‘This Must Be The Place’, Paolo Sorrentino joins the gang of European auteurs, from Mich...

  • Titanic 3D

    Film Dir James Cameron

    The film you hate to love returns next April in a refurbushed 3D print. Mind, we can’t think wh...

  • Battleship

    Film From Fri Apr 20

    A small fleet of naval ships are pitched against a much larger unknown armada of possibly alien o...

  • Out of Focus: Photography

    ArtFreeCritics' choice Until Sun Jul 22, Saatchi Gallery

    The Saatchi Gallery stages its first major photography exhibition since 2001's 'I Am A Camera', p...

    'Anonymous, Los Angeles, Boulevard 11', 2009, by Katy Grannan

  • World Shakespeare Festival 2012

    Theatre Apr 21-Jun 9, Shakespeare's Globe

    The centrepiece of the 'Shakespeare Olympics' will be Globe to Globe at Shakespeare's Globe, in w...

  • The Avengers

    Film From Fri Apr 27

    This comic book crossover sees The Hulk (Ruffalo), Iron Man (Downey Jr), Thor (Hemsworth) and Cap...

  • Love Love Love

    TheatreCritics' choice Until Sat Jun 9, Royal Court Theatre

    Mike Bartlett's recent diversions into political sci-fi with the National Theatre have proven rat...

  • The Sunshine Boys

    Theatre Until Sat Jul 28, Savoy Theatre

    A Danny DeVito-starring, Thea Sharrock-directed revival of Neil Simon's 1972 play 'The Sunshine B...

  • Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

    Museums & AttractionsCritics' choice Until Sun Sep 9, National Maritime Museum

    The National Maritime Museum's major show for spring and summer 2012 is 'Royal River: Power, Pag...

    London: The Thames on Lord Mayor’s Day, Looking Towards the City and St Paul’s Cathedral, before 1752, Canaletto
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