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London Art Fair
Business Design Centre, N1
Modern British art is the focus of this fair, which, with art from more than 100 exhibitors, claims to be the UK's largest.
Among the London galleries jostling for attention in Islington's Business Design Centre will be Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Agnew's, Purdy Hicks, Flowers, Beaux Arts and Bearspace — the gamut from fashionable East End to established contemporary dealers.
Prices for the works, by artists including Rob and Nick Carter, Keith Coventry, Barbara Hepworth and Wang Wei, range from a hot flush-inducing £1 million down to a credit crunch-friendly £20 — but those who baulk at any price at all can simply listen in on a range of talks and demonstrations.
In addition to the main stalls, there is an experimental zone called Art Projects where you will find Gavin Turk and Deborah Curtis's House of Fairytales, a project exploring the role of play in art. It features a drawing workshop for children — not the kind of thing they permit at Frieze (at least during the fair).
Elsewhere, portraitist Adam Dant will turn out pictures of visitors in sepia ink, a video booth will eject editioned video art works for £20, and the Photo50 exhibition will showcase emerging photographers.
14-18 January (www.londonartfair.co.uk)
Richard Godwin
LAST CHANCE
Edward Scissorhands
Until 18 January, Sadler's Wells, EC1 (0844 412 4300, www.sadlerswells.com) £10-£50
Tim Burton's moving tale of the boy with scissors for hands is back at Sadler's Wells after a sell-out world tour. Choreographer Matthew Bourne gives the gothic fairytale a tragic but charming poignancy in the dance adaptation of Burton's classic film. It may be a sad love story but it's compassionate, witty and lives up to its predecessor.
MEET ME AT
The Bavarian Beerhouse
190 City Road, EC1 (020 7608 0925) Mon-Thurs noon-11pm noon-1am; Sun noon-9pm £20pp ex-drinks
The beer is excellent Paulaner Munich lager and Paulaner Dunkel dark beer. The food is uncompromising. Starters include Nürnberger bratwurst, Vienna sausages or a serious goulash soup. The mains run from meatloaf, through Bavarian cheese noodles to a range of schnitzels.
From Charles Campion's London Restaurant Guide 2009, published by Profile Books, £8.99
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Keane
13-14 February, 02 Arena, SE10 (0844 856 0202, www.gigsandtours.com) £30
The piano rockers from East Sussex are back with their third studio album tour. Perfect Symmetry was voted by Q Magazine as the Best Album of the Year in 2008 and it's certainly more adventurous than the last two albums, featuring an electric guitar for the first time. There are hints of Eighties pop but enough uplifting piano harmonies to keep the lighter-waving contingent happy.
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