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London's stages, concert rooms and cinemas: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the repertory and arthouse cinemas, the clubs proper, and the rooms above pubs where things start. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
Two screens on the Mall showing the films that have no distributor, in the building that showed them first.
Cinemas
Roland Penrose, Herbert Read and a handful of friends founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1946 as a place where artists, writers and scientists could argue outside the Royal Academy's walls, and its first shows, of modern art and of 40,000 years of it, set the tone. The Independent Group met here in the early 1950s and invented British pop art over its coffee; Picasso, Pollock and Bacon were shown early, and later the punks, the video artists and the performance art nobody else would house. Since 1968 it has occupied Nash House, the eastern end of Carlton House Terrace, John Nash's last great stucco range above the Mall, which is the joke of the place: the most difficult programme in London behind the most establishment façade. Two galleries, two cinemas showing what the multiplexes will not, a theatre, a bookshop and a bar, with a membership that makes most of it cheap.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.