Arts Ahead 28 September to 4 October

October's here! The month of birthdays, Halloween, Harvest and the rest of it.

For London, October is a continuation of September's festival frenzy. Film festivals, Black History Month, Story of London, the Restaurant Festival, a Gaming Festival, and Big Draw for starters...

But I'm getting ahead of myself. There's still a couple of days left in September, and they're all about big blockbuster art exhibitions from Gauguin and Anish Kapoor. Two I quite fancy seeing, in fact.

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Arts Ahead 31 August - 6 September from londonist

It's September at last!

And that means stuff is finally starting to HAPPEN again.

Much as I love-love-love the summer, there's something quite stultifying about August in London. The more the month wears on, the more it becomes apparant that nothing new is really happening, and everyone's just trying to relax while they're cranking slowly up the rollercoaster readying themselves, inch by inch, click by click for the incredible drop, the sideways spin, the whoosh and the zoom of a September stuffed with new and exciting things to do. And a stomach-churning feeling that doesn't really stop until you get to Christmas.

It's a bit like Sunday Night Syndrome, only it lasts for about half a month. Not good.

So, happily, we survived, and while this week, it's mainly about how many big West End shows are closing (how many? Seriously, it's about 20!) while the theatres ready themselves for the Next. Big. Thing.

Unless you're the Royal Court. In which case, you have the next big thing already.

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