Much as it follows a conventional art gallery framework, Lazarides is far from a conventional art gallery.  At their gallery spaces in Soho and Fitzrovia (as well as a third physical site in Newcastle), Lazarides represent the work of artists who can honestly claim to being 'outsider' (in the most accurate sense of the word), including Banksy, JR, Invader, BAST, Jonathan Yeo and, former member of Prodigy and Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlett.  The latest show, at Lazarides' home on Rathbone Place, is a display of work by equally-outsider artists, collective Artists Anonymous.

Based between London and Berlin, this is the first show at the gallery by Artists Anonymous.  Their work is strong, and is drawn from a singular and unique voice.  The images that they present are made up with a heavy dose of after-image.  Merging photography with a form of ethereal photorealism.  Their works are born in a fantastical world comprised of war, famine, sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and self-destruction.  Taking a cue from C.S. Lewis, this world is named Alice's Apocalypse.

Most of the works here are displayed in pairs, as erstwhile diptychs.  These are artists working within the after-image of postmodernism.  In a world where everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes, Artists Anonymous' pictures are conglomerates of both form and content.  These 'paintings' are made of the spectacle of our twenty-first century remix culture.  Like it or lump it.  It's incredibly beautiful, in an incendiary or pyromaniacal sort of way.

Alice's Apocalypse by Artists Anonymous is at Lazarides Rathbone until 13 October.

Here's a first for regular Because readers: a double recommendation from your dear old Culture Editor.  Coming live from Battersea Arts Centre are two performance events, opening tonight, that explore nostalgia, history and restlessness.  Atomkraft is a play, due to have one night's performance on 21 September.  In a room that could be the core of a nuclear reactor, Greg and Sara narrate audio, video and photography to tell the life story of Roddy Magnox, Australia's richest man.  Beginning tonight is a series called Atomkraft Research Presentation.  These events will take on a diverse form - from theatrical presentation to lecture and conference - to explore the nature of money, power and powerlessness.  The aim is to open up what will become the play to bring in as many voices and opinions as possible.

Also opening tonight is Motor Vehicle Sundown by Andy Field.  It is very simple, an audio piece for two in the car park in the city.  As you drive up and park your car, you're spoken to and put on another journey, except this is one about exploring America.  Taking the mythology of the American dream as your point of departure, you travel through a series of places and objects, navigating your way through rolling fields and endless highways, as your narrator tries to extract just what it is that makes the USA highway so intricately bound within our cultural consciousness.  It's an image burned in all of our memories, despite only a select few of us having actually seen it: Sitting in a car with your darling, chasing the California sun before it disappears, maybe for good.  In this place, you're the person you dream of: anyone you want to be.

Atomkraft Research Presentation opens today and runs until 08 September.

Atomkraft takes place on 21 September.

Motor Vehicle Sundown opens today and runs until 15 September.

This is the first time your dear Culture Editor has ever written about the Horniman Museum, but a reconsideration of South London and very intriguing new exhibition has caught our eye. TheBody Adorned looks at how we dress our selves. It explores the changing face of dress in the metropolis and, further, all of those alterations and modifications that we use to punctuate our overall looks and styles.

This display explores everything from nail bars to scarification, and how the city has evolved over the twentieth- and into the twenty-first centuries in order to bring a wide range of subcultures into mainstream consciousness. This exhibition looks at gentrification and the movement of people, and examines the city's influence.

The show features hundreds of objects pulled from the Horniman Museum's impressive collection (the museum was the Victorian estate of Frederick Horniman, and the museum is a great, free attraction that includes anthropological artefacts - something that this very exhibition can claim to contain, musical instruments, an aquarium and gardens). Artworks include classic figures of adorned bodies, early tattooing instruments, the sample wardrobes of a selection of contemporary Londoners, and even a new film installation by creative media collective The Light Surgeons. A great way to spend a sunny Indian summer afternoon.

The Body Adorned is at The Horniman Museum until 06 January 2013.

image by Madam Patty