- The London Fire Brigade Archive goes on show for the first time, including rare photographs of well-known London fires, at the Photographers' Gallery, London, from 21st July.
- Galileo's book The Starry Messenger sits alongside work by John Cage and science fiction magazines in "Visions of the Universe" at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, from 7th July.
- David Dolan, the Guildhall's head of classical improvisation, demonstrates the art of the Mozartian cadenza, with a different piano concerto performed each Saturday in July from the 8th, at the Barbican.
- Most festivals bring in unusual people and events, but Wrights & Sites celebrates the everyday in Exeter with a week of themed day-long festivals from 10th July. Expect coquetry on Thursday, a festival of reflections in windows and glints in eyes.
- The Old Bailey hosts a one-off screening of Hitchcock's classic silent version of Blackmail, accompanied by new live music from British film composer Jonathan Lloyd, on 30th June.
- Austrian absurdist Erwin Wurm's podgy sculpture Fat House appears next to new gourmand works including The artist who swallowed the world at the Baltic, Gateshead, from 5th July.
