Wednesday 31 March (6:30 - 8:30pm)

@ Laurence O'Hana Gallery, 35/42 Charlotte Rd., EC2 (020.739.0245) Tube: Old St.

With a snappy PR campaign and sickly-slick branding, the Lawrence O'Hana Gallery announced itself a few weeks ago to a suspicious London art world. Just who is the new Larry on the block? And what's he doing setting up a gallery on the wrong side of Old Street? (Counter Gallery excepted, the trendier galleries are all on the East side of the famous strip...). Has anyone actually been to this gallery yet? Well, here at KultureFlash, we say: ditch yer prejudices and welcome the newcomer! And there's no better time than this week! Artist/DJ/NERD club promoter Seb Patane is putting on a night of art 'n' music for all those art folk who secretly prefer music to art, and all those music kids who fancy something more heavyweight than swirling club graphics. In the gallery, Patane will set up an installation of exotic-sounding elements: from sculpture to models to -- and we quote the press release here -- "customised Sufi dancers", set to a score played live on a laptop by wacky Italian bros Loozoo. Drop in, pick up some beautiful people and cross the road to the Electricity Showrooms for the after-party, a special one-off club night courtesy of NERD!

Wednesday 31 March (7pm)

@ The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, EC1 Tube: Farringdon

Not so long ago the marriage between art and architecture was bit of a shotgun affair; put up a building, then bolt some art to it (with apologies to Charles Holden, Jacob Epstein and others!). But the entire notion of public art as monument is now being questioned by the work of German-born artist Jochen Gerz, which has evolved over the last 30 years into projects which are often not at all physical, and often involve public participation as a fundamental part of the work. In his project for the Burgundy village of Barbirey-sur-Ouche, villagers are tasked each year with finding a new name for their park, which with an annual celebration has created a new tradition. In the case of the Future Monument, created as part of Coventry's Phoenix Initiative, Coventrians (that's what they're called) were asked to name former enemy nations now turned friends, each of which will be embodied in the physical work. Gerz will be chatting with architect Sir Richard MacCormac, who masterplanned the Phoenix Initiative. Best known to Londoners for Southwark tube station, in which he collaborated with artist Alexander Beleschenko, MacCormac has himself designed a huge bridge-like sculpture for the Phoenix project, as well a Beleschenko collaboration.

NB: This is a ticketless event -- pay on the door (no pre-booking necessary).

Wednesday 31 March (7pm)

@ Islington Academy, 16 Parkfield St., N1 (020.7288.4400) Tube: Angel

Sharp-tongued oddball glamour-puss, and the glitteriest cabaret king in the West, Bobby Conn is the daddy of electro-punk-rock disco romp, and is hitting our musical halls again as he releases his fourth album, The Homeland (Thrill Jockey) -- the follow-up to the acclaimed and crazy The Golden Age. The incarnation of '70s glam rock (think Bowie with a splash of Led Zeppelin, T-Rex and Iggy Pop, then add pink sparkly platform soles), this Chicago dandy's live shows are infamously eclectic, energetic and pretty much loopy. But just as you and your spandex pants are relaxing into this retro excess, Conn's close-to-the-bone contemporary lyrics will kick in, cunningly interweaving a paintbox full of colourful and caustic verbal swipes at his home country in a flurry of glitter-tinted politics. And you thought those student union flares and feather boas wouldn't reappear till that distant invitation to a mid-life crisis party... See you in Oxfam!

NB: Support from Pink Grease, the Cribs and Art Brut.

Thursday 1 April (Daily 10am - 5:45pm, Wed and last Fri of month until 10pm)

@ V&A Museum, Cromwell Rd., SW7 (020.7942.2000) Tube: South Kensington

Vivienne Westwood is a woman's woman. She says, "I'm not interested in tailoring but in the pull and push of the garment against the body." That sums up the headstrong, individual and sexually powerful attitude that underpins her iconic designs, from punk-bondage to pirates to rococo gowns. This show displays an extensive range of work from Westwood's private collection and the V&A's archive. Magnificent as the creations are, unlike most displays of iconic artwork, it's not outside the bounds of possibility that you could purchase a Westwood for yourself. How many women have stood in Selfridges with one of her frocks in hand wondering whether they should try it on? Their biggest fear is that it will look nothing less than stunning and the purchase will have to be made. Worse than that, Westwood could be habit-forming. Ladies and fashionistas are guaranteed to have their noses pressed up against the glass, ogling corsets and crinolines, dreaming of the wonderful relationship they could be having, pulled and pushed in all the right places. (Runs till 11/07.)

NB: Various talks and courses are programmed in conjunction with this retrospective, so be sure to check the microsite.

Thursday 1 April (7:30pm)

@ Deluxe Gallery, 1st Floor, 2-4 Hoxton Square, N1 (0207.729.8503) Tube: Old St.

The second [no.signal] KultureFlash-supported event will present the first ever UK showcase of the superb Staubgold label (which includes To Rococo Rot's Mapstation, Rafael Toral and Ekkehard Ehlers among others). The line-up will be headed by SUN, the unusual pairing of world-renowned experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi and Australian music figurehead Chris Townend. This music is a magnificent sweet pop creation from a guitarist whose solo improvisations are rooted into sounds escaping the traditional instrument. Oren has released various recordings including his astonishing Suspension and Insulation on UK's fantastic Touch label. He has collaborated with John Zorn, AMM's Keith Rowe, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, laptop genius Christian Fennesz, and MIMEO's Kaffe Matthews, to cite only a few. This will also be the chance to discover the multi-layered sounds behind the post-rock smoothness of SUN (close to David Grubbs or Papa M), with members improvising solo and duo sets (guitarist Scott Horscroft teams up with Ambarchi himself, and Clare Cooper will do an experimental harp solo). Staubgold's own Markus Detmer will be doing his acclaimed DJ set which he as performed at festivals such as SONAR.

NB: [no.signal] will also present the psych drone explorations of Australian band Function performing on Sat 03/04 at the RoTa Session (Notting Hill Arts Club) alongside Piano Magic.

GIVEAWAYS: We have two tickets and four Staubgold CDs to give away. They'll go to six randomly picked Flashers who can tell us which famous electronic prize Oren Ambarchi won in 2003. The first ten Flashers who emails us will get onto the £5 reduced list.

Thursday 1 April (8pm)

@ Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, N1 (08700.600.100) Tube: Old Street

Entering the Victorian temple of amusement, a sexy storm trooper will usher you into the Music Hall, where red-clothed table awaits, accompanied by the sounds of Jonny Berliner band. Now in its second year, Hoxton Bark comes back monthly (on a Thursday), starting the Luxury Goods Season with Perfume (Thu 01/04) with new Comperes: In Bed All Day (last seen at Whoopee Club, KashPoint, Vaudeville...). A nicely scented line-up which includes the talented Mimbre acrobatics and the Widowmakers in Death by Perfume. During the interval you will be able to replenish your champagne glasses at the bar whilst famous Perfume advertisement posters are recreated on the stage as tableau vivant. You can also decide to browse the gorgeous audience. Hoxton Bark is an experience bridging the old-fashioned delights of Music Hall and the head-spinning prowess of experimental live art!

NB: The show will be performed on four evenings throughout the next four months, 01/04, 06/05, 17/06 and 22/07.

Thursday 1 April (Thu 01/04 to Sun 04/04 from 8pm - 11pm)

@ Jazz Cafe, 5 Parkway, NW1 (020.7916.6060) Tube: Camden Town

"Crap! I had a voice, but I did not know how to use it." This was Horace Andy's dilemma back in the mid-'60s, as a young man of Kingston Town. A quick resolution was found and the true emotive voice of Jah-maica was born. Over the last 35 years Andy has blessed his followers with an incredibly rich catalogue of recordings, commencing with simple rocksteady reggae, progressing to Studio One stardom and dubby masterpieces, before culminating in epic and long-standing associations with Massive Attack (on all of their studio albums) and the Mad Professor. A regular to these shores, Andy's jaunty and inimitable singing style-yle-yle-yle has regularly delighted and entranced new generations of audiences; now we are treated to a four-night residency at Camden's most civilised musical pit, the Jazz Cafe. For this week, let's rename it the "Reggae Den" and make sure the mighty Skylarking of Horace Andy is witnessed by as many new disciples as possible-lul-lul-lul.

NB: Horace Andy performs at the Jazz Cafe for four nights from Thu 01/04 to Sun 04/04.

Friday 2 April (7 - 8pm)

@ Centre of Attention, 15 Cottons Gardens, E2 (020.7729.0699 ) Tube: Old St.

"Fluxus-art-fun should just be simple, entertaining and undemanding, it should be about insignificant things, it shouldn't require special skills and countless rehearsals, it should have no commercial or institutional value," said George Maciunas, the self-styled co-ordinator of the international avant-garde phenomenon Fluxus. This concept underpins the experimental movement founded in the '60s in Germany and centred in New York. It aimed to challenge artistic tradition through accessible multi-media events and objects. "Fluxus" means "flowing" in Latin, evoking a continual state of transition that resists easy definition. It is the first inter-medial art form since Dada to lyrically intermingle different genres of art, including painting, sculpture, literature, film and music. Shaped by the influence of composer John Cage, the movement's affiliates include George Brecht, and Nam June Paik. Today, Fluxus is experiencing a well-deserved renaissance with one of its founding artists, Yoko Ono, who exhibited recently at the ICA. Now Ken Friedman, American artist and editor of The Fluxus Reader (1998) is presenting a talk that will try and answer the question: "What exactly is Fluxus?" The event will be held at the Centre of Attention, a gallery which, in true Fluxus fashion, is of no fixed premises.

Performance/Private View: On Sat 03/04 (6 - 9pm) Ken Friedman will conduct his 12 structures concert in conjunction with his exhibition that runs from 04/04 till 02/05.

NB: For tickets to the talk call 0207.225.4822 or email events@arthappens.org. There will be no seating at this event.

Saturday 3 April (Sat 03/04 and Sun 04/04 at 12pm)

@ Curzon Soho, 93-107 Shaftesbury Ave., W1 (020.7439.4805) Tube: Leicester Sq./Piccadilly

Doris Day made a career acting knowing while remaining steadfastly ignorant -- useful when Rock Hudson is her straight guy sparring partner for the virginal comedy Pillow Talk. As Ruth Etting, "America's Sweetheart of Song", in the biopic Love Me or Leave Me she has the perseverance necessary to deal with crooks and gangsters, belt out Etting's hits with aplomb and still maintain a flawless coiffure. Marlon Brando, on the other hand, never kept his menace under wraps. In The Fugitive Kind, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Rising, Brando is an unsubmissive drifter in an era of small-town bigotry. And if Day is candy, Brando is no Nutrasweet. His 1953 Julius Caesar -- playing Marc Anthony -- manoeuvring amid the likes of Gielgud and Mason is a seminal reading of Shakespeare's text; if Enrique Iglesias were pitched against Brando, he would be big cat food in no time.

NB: These double-bills, in celebration of Curzon Soho/Mayfair's 70th anniversaries and the artist's birthdays, will include talks by Tamar Jeffers (Doris) and Paul MacDonald (Marlon). They take place over two days on Sat 03/04 (Doris double-bill) and Sun 04/04 (Marlon double-bill).

Saturday 3 April (6 - 9pm)

@ Ritter/Zamet, 2 Bear Gardens, SE1 (020.7261.9510) Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars

After the joyful and jazzy abstractions of Oliver Lanz, Ritter-Zamet are now hitting us with a Punk attitude. Curated by NY-based Brit artist-gallerist Rupert Goldsworthy, with a title taken from the Human League song and Jon Savage essay, Gretchen Faust's elusive Wall Tattoo (1990) -- from The Frick Collection lecture titles -- questions it all: "Capitalist Pragmatism or Utopian Vision?" In fact it's neither, with stills from Canadian naughty boy Bruce LaBruce's latest flick The Raspberry Reich and an early print-drawing by Richard Hell, expect this to be more Sex Pistols "utopia". Simon (the artist-formerly-known-as-BANK) Bedwell's interventions and Goldsworthy's own painting-installation will provide social commentary, while Christopher Brooks' funky and absurd abstractions, which combine stickers and paint, transgress both formal painting and cartoon graphics. It is Alan Currall who sits in the middle with his cool and minimal job interview; do not let the understated, Lo-Fi quality of the work fool you, it's edgy. Like Punk music, it's a criticism of the world we currently inhabit. But don't think they provide solutions, instead there's just a little head-banging. (Runs until 15/05.)

NB: Private View is on Sat 03/04 from 6 to 9pm. Bruce LaBruce's The Raspberry Reich will be screened during the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival at the NFT, while Simon Bedwell's paintings are also included in this year's Beck's Futures.

Saturday 3 April (Sat 03/04 6pm; Sun 04/04 at 8pm)

@ Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola St, E8 (020.7503.1646) Tube: Highbury & Islington

Rotozaza's challenging explorations into "what can only be done live" (i.e. what you can't do in film or any in other medium) have produced nearly 20 productions since '98 -- ranging from seemingly familiar theatre formats to installations, mass happenings and public interventions. In the last year, though, the focus has returned to a strategy begun with their popular show Bloke, in which the performer has no idea of what they'll do before coming on stage and simply follows instructions from a voice off-stage. DoubleThink takes this idea several steps forward. Two guests take orders from the same recorded voice, with a wall between them -- they can't see each other, but the audience see both sides, and their differences. When the two operators of this voice -- Rotozaza's rehearsed actors -- are forced to take over and "assume the position of alter-ego" to the guests, they conceal their instructions from the audience (through whispers, scribbled notes, etc.) in an attempt to present a fluid communicative relationship. The result is a magnificent, hilarious chaos, with the "guests" seemingly the ones in control... Unlike anything else, this is bold and risky playing with the conventions of rehearsed performance -- and is great fun to watch.

NB: With guests, Melanie Wilson and Adam Ilhan on Sat 03/04, and on Sun 04/04, Bill Aitchison and Cecily Murray.

Saturday 3 April (7:30pm)

@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly Circus

A couple of years ago, Mission of Burma resolved to reunite after 19 years of separate projects. This long gap in their work history prompted many to ask: "Why now?". The band have answered the cynics, but their timing is also impeccable as the British music-buying public continue to turn back to real bands and artist-song integrity. This one-off London date promotes the album ONoffON, due for release in the UK at the end of May. With it, MOB bring a reprise for the Boston art-punk scene that begat many similar acts of the '80s and '90s like Sonic Youth and The Minutemen. With this lineage it's no surprise that there is plenty to hold the listener's interest as this guitar-based outfit make good use of solidly anthemic riffs, performed cohesively between each instrument and Bob Weston's antics with the tape loop. Exhibiting the tightness and rhythmic exploration in a similar vein to era-mates Fugazi, maybe MOB can inspire a new generation of music makers.

Saturday 3 April (11pm - 7am)

@ TBD (call 09057.570.102)

To those who utter the knackered cliche, "dance music is dead", we laugh heartily and raise a belligerent middle finger. The truth is that it has just gone more underground again. Which brings us to a new event held this very Saturday in the mysterious and multicultural environs of E1. To add to the mystique of this event, that's about all the information that we can reveal. How's that for a refreshing change? No flyers or never-ending marketing blurb, just a dirty all-night rave in East London. In addition to this almost self-conscious attempt to impersonate the rave days, you must phone a number and indulge in a 30-second call that will furnish you with all the details. Upon arriving at this unnamed venue, around the Brick Lane area (let's hope it's not a derelict curry house), prepare yourself for a full DJ line-up through till 7am. There's a slightly old-school flavour to the DJs, with the likes of Mark Luvdup and Bones & Ramsey playing the main room. In attendance will be rising stars like Anthony Bebawi, Blackbeard (flavour the moment) and even XFM's James Hyman. This launch night looks well worthy of your support: going back to the roots of dance.

NB: For "Secret Warehouse Location" (near Brick Lane) specifics, call 09057.570.102.

Sunday 4 April (Concert at 7:30pm; Films at 4pm)

@ Barbican Centre, Barbican Centre, EC2 (020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican

Mad Max bought us crucifix flick The Passion and now the London Symphony Orchestra celebrates 100 years in the biz with Elgar's The Apostles. If we needed an excuse to stop all those nasty bad habits (sex, drugs and fiddling of expenses) these subtle reminders that there may be an Almighty watching us maybe just what we needed! Nuff catholic guilt and more on the divine and inspirational Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)... The Apostles. Meant to be part of a sacred trilogy (with The Kingdom and the unfinished The Last Judgement), this English oratorio is rare to find live. The cast of characters includes the back-stabbing Judas, less-than-virtuous Mary Magdalene, the Virgin conceiver and the Son of God, so don't waste your time with the pastiche which is Jerry Springer: The Opera, just go catch the real thing. Elgar is one of our greatest more modern composers and to give us an insight into how to be great Andrew Youdell will be complementing The Apostles with a pre-concert film exploration of Elgar's life, including footage of him at work with contemporaries such as J.B. Priestly and George Bernard Shaw. With the LSO tempting the masses by shaving their prices, plus Jesus being sooo the new Frodo, you really must go.

NB: Various Elgar films will be screened at 4pm and the concert is at 7:30pm.

Sunday 4 April (10pm - 4am)

@ 333, 333 Old St., EC1 (020.7739.5949) Tube: Old St.

Back once again with their monthly melting pot of musical mayhem, the kinky voodoo team presents a "clash of civilisations" -- with representatives from some of the country's most talked-about clubs battling it out in an electro-sound-clash. Waging war on the ground floor are Nag Nag Nag resident and one-half Atomizer Fil Ok with some gigolo disco; Sonic Mook Experiment's Disastronaut providing some dirty electro-punk; John Taylor from The Cock and pioneering electroclash syndicate, Punx Soundcheck; and warming things up before the main event 333 residents, Punks Jump Up. Taking care of proceedings in the basement are Snapmouth (aka Posthuman-seed/skam) with a live-electropop schaffelbitch session and support from Wrong Tom with a full live band playing filthy break-driven ragga and electro-hop. The basement's DJ clash features a three-way battle between Warp DJ Tomp, Rephlex's Marcus and Wheels Instead of Hooves man James, and if that wasn't enough to whet your appetite, fresh from the release of his new "Sexy Model" single, bastard (pop) technician extraordinaire Frenchbloke & Son will be on hand to provide a live laptop/decks set featuring everyone's dancefloor favourites, but not as you know them.

Monday 5 April (Performance on Mon 05/04 at 7:30pm; Films on Sun 04/04 at 5:30pm )

@ Barbican Centre, Barbican Centre, EC2 (020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican

Lady Day, the Lady in Satin, the Lady who Sang the Blues. Of all tragic life stories of legendary jazz performers, that of Billie Holiday is clearly one of the most heartbreaking. Raped before the age of ten and consequently sentenced to Catholic reform school, she went on to become one of the best jazz and blues vocalists of the century, performing and recording what is arguably the strongest anti-lynching song ever, "Strange Fruit". In her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, she claims to have been influenced by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong -- "I always wanted Bessie's big sound and Pop's feeling" -- while there is no lack of either feeling or volume in her recordings, they clearly deviate from her heroes: Holiday's was a unique voice, delivered in an inimitable style. Sadly, her affection for booze and opiates shortened her life considerably. She died of heart and liver disease in '59, having been arrested for possession of heroin while on her death bed. This talk and films programme (part of Only Connect festival) is a rare chance to see Fred Waller's 1935 Symphony in Black, showing Billie Holiday performing with Duke Ellington, as well as Joel Katz's documentary of the classic ballad, "Strange Fruit", together with lots of performances and readings/talks, all hosted by Neneh Cherry.

NB: Absolute Zappa On Film at the Barbican (Thu 01/04 at 5:30pm), two films by Elaine Shepherd exploring the life of legendary musician Frank Zappa, complement an Absolute Zappa concert (Thu 01/04 at 7:30pm) in the Barbican Hall.

Tuesday 6 April (6:45pm)

@ Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 (020.7792.9512) Tube: South Kensington

"Let's bin the monarchy" is one of those phrases, along with "bring back the birch" or "I quite like Mick Hucknall", that's guaranteed to put a rocket up the most pedestrian conversation. OK, so the chinless wonders have downsized the civil list, opened up their palaces to fee-paying yanks and are even producing tubs of organic shampoo to fend off republican attacks. But is this enough? Can the new generation of jazz cigarette-sampling, aboriginal art-plagiarising, gap year pin-up philanthropists save Britain's longest-running soap opera from self-immolation? To help us decide is the latest debate from Intelligence Squared, a rather clever group which turns apposite issues into lively discussion. In favour of the House of Windsor crumbling into dust is Guardian scribe and professor of journalism Roy Greenslade, Dr. Piers Brendon, consultant on the ITV series The Windsors, and Roy "wear your sou'wester if you're talking to me" Hattersley. Meanwhile, defending the Corgies' bejewelled kennels is royal biographer Penny Junor, broadcaster and journo Peter Hitchens and Lord St. John of Fawsley, chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust. For added excitement, check out the latest scores on Intelligence Squared's online poll.

NB: To book your tickets call 020.7494.3345 or email info@intelligencesquared.com.

Tuesday 6 April (Tue 06/04 and Wed 07/04 at 8pm)

@ The Place, 17 Duke's Rd., WC1 (020.7387.0031) Tube: Euston Station/King's Cross

Random Dance, they say, is renowned to have the UK's elite contemporary dancers -- a squad of international repute. We say, yeah -- these guys are the business! Each is a unique, ethereal creature that has no bounds. For two nights only, seven of them step beyond Random to present their very own choreography, pushing their creative juices in a most stunning fashion. The evenings will include new work by Laila Diallo, who has been with the company since '97 (recently featured in Dice Life on Channel 4), together with the acclaimed Fred Gehrig, who has danced with the likes of Matthew Bourne's AMP (Nutcracker and Swan Lake), Bill T. Jones, Ballet Preljocaj as well as in the electrifying and sexy Oh my Goddess with Michael Clark! Also featuring exciting work from Matthias Sperling -- who also danced with danced with AMP. The line-up continues with Khamlane Halsackda (Richard Alston Dance Company, Henri Oguike), Ngoc Anh Nguyen (Rosalind Newman), Hilary Stainsby (she knows no limits!) and Frederick Opoku-Addaie (Lea Anderson, Jonzi-D, Saburo Teshigawara). Wayne McGregor must be "right-proud" of this stellar line-up -- his lovelies will rock!

NB: Rumour has it, that the wild and really sexy ones from the company are having their after-show party on Tue 06/04 at Caligula -- a raunchy, new arty-disco-club at Public Life (83a Commercial St, E1). See ya there, gorgeous!

Wednesday 7 April (7pm)

@ LSO St Lukes, 161 Old Street, EC1

Will Alsop isn't bashful about the role of architecture. For him, it is nothing less than a revolutionary mission to transform urban life. Philistines, low-brows and anyone who doesn't agree be damned! In short, he's just the kind of aesthetic extremist we need in these times of focus groups and mass poles of "The People", most of whom are ill-placed to judge the merits of a pre-fabricated conservatory let alone an important new building. Alsop is a kind of benign architectural dictator, a visionary and unique creative mind whose confidence in his own ideas gives birth to buildings that capture the popular imagination by knowing what's good for it, rather than serving up the dross it would agree to by committee. The Peckham Library is one such creation and the Fourth Grace in Liverpool will surely be another. Standing alongside the iconic Graces on the Mersey waterfront, and just a few stories shy of the Liver Building, The Fourth Grace is as bold an architectural statement as the most bonkers of Victorian structures. Tonight's Architecture Foundation speech will provide insight into Alsop's maverick methods and no doubt some refreshingly direct polemic from one of Britain's most exciting architects.

Ends Thursday 8 April (Tue to Sat 10am - 6pm)

@ Hauser & Wirth, 196A Piccadilly, W1 (020.7287.2300) Tube: Piccadilly Circus

Drawing is where the mind and heart of the artist always becomes transparent. Thus a show about touch, vulnerability and aggression titled (In Search of) The Perfect Lover seems like a lot to ask for, yet it's entirely appropriate here as touch and vulnerability are the key points to these artists' hearts. Culled from the huge personal collection of Hauser & Wirth -- normally located in St. Gallen -- this group exposes the more passionate sides of the HW aesthetic. While Marlene Dumas provides feminine existential pathos via a group of watercolours of naked women, and this certainly is a great Dumas selection, at the other end of the spectrum Raymond Pettibon -- in the vault downstairs -- taunts us with his surreal, West Coast, cartoon haikus. In between we find the hard grind of Paul McCarthy's "studies" for sculptures and Louise Bourgeois' material organic abstractions; both find different ways to get under our skins. It is a tension provided by young and old, European and American attitudes. Yes, drawing is sensitive but do not expect the sensations to be all pleasant. Do expect to be amazed that drawing can still be contemporary in the age of video, TV and the internet.

NB: Runs till 08/04.

Giveaway: We have three catalogues to give away. They'll go to three randomly picked Flashers who can tell us the countries in which each of the exhibiting artists were born.

Saturday 10 April (6pm - 4am)

@ The Coronet, 24-28 New Kent Rd., SE1 (020.7701.1500) Tube: Elephant & Castle

An old style punky reggae party at The Coronet this evening as Don Letts presents an evening of film, live bands and DJs. Letts is one of those rare figures whose biography reads like a cultural studies thesis. He's credited with introducing The Pistols and The Clash to reggae and is widely regarded as the conduit between '70s upsetter London and its Jamaican cousin. An acclaimed filmmaker and video-director, he spent the '80s in Big Audio Dynamite with The Clash's Mick Jones. Tonight begins with a Q&A with the man himself before screenings of his Punk Rock Movie (1977) and Dancehall Queen (1997). Later, there are live performances by Welsh rockers My Red Cell and the beautiful shambles that is The Libertines. Lett's own Dub Cartel will provide bass pressure until the early hours.