The first week in the Fall season is always the most exciting and art-full week of the year! There are great previews, artist talks, and performances all week. And First Thursday September 2012 will not disappoint - with previews in every neighborhood of London. Stay out late at Hackney Picturehouse on Friday and wake up to make it for the artist talk with Thomas Houseago at ICA on Saturday.

Wednesday:
+ Artist Talk: "IAIN BAXTER& and Christophe Domino in Conversation" In conjunction with the two-day workshop Re: Towards 'Minor' Histories of Exhibitions and Performances co-organised by Antony Hudek and Fabien Pinaroli at Raven Row

Thursday:
+ Preview: Josephine Pryde "Night Out" at Simon Lee

Friday:
+ Preview: Alli Sharma / Mimei Thompson / David Wojtowycz / N, Andrew Bracey / Jackie Chettur / Paul Kindersley / "Still" Launch of Garageland 14: Film at Hackney Picturehouse

Saturday:
+ Preview: Eileen Quilan "Twin Peaks" at Campoli Presti

Tuesday, September 4

Preview: Berlinde De Bruyckere "Book launch, dance performance and private view" at Hauser & Wirth London
Westminster: 196a Piccadilly, 6-8pm

Preview: "Maaike Schoorel" at Maureen Paley
Tower Hamlets: 21 Herald Street, 6:30-8:30pm

Preview: Ayuko Sugiura "Second Skin" at WW Gallery
Hackney: 30 Queensdown Road, 6-9pm

Wednesday, September 5

+ Artist Talk: "IAIN BAXTER& and Christophe Domino in Conversation" In conjunction with the two-day workshop Re: Towards 'Minor' Histories of Exhibitions and Performances co-organised by Antony Hudek and Fabien Pinaroli at Raven Row
Tower Hamlets: 56 Artillery Lane, 7pm

Artist Talk: "Giuseppe Penone and Achim Borchardt-Hume" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 7pm, 7pm

Thursday, September 6

Preview: Anton Henning, Chris Martin, Marcus Harvey, Mark Wright, Richard Hamilton, Robert Longo, The Bruce High Quality Foundation "Mediated Iconography" at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
City: 6 Heddon Street, 6-8pm

+ Preview: Josephine Pryde "Night Out" at Simon Lee
Westminster: 12 Berkeley Street, 6-8pm

Preview: Giuseppe Penone at Haunch of Venison
Westminster: 6 Burlington Gardens, 6-8pm

Preview: Seamus Harahan "Cold Open" at Gimpel Fils Gallery
Westminster: 30 Davies Street, 6-8pm

Preview: Bridget Macdonald "Arcadia" at Art First
Westminster: 21 Eastcastle Street, 6-8pm

Preview: Guler Ates "Threshold" at Art First
Westminster: 21 Eastcastle Street, 6-8pm

Preview: Edwin Burdis "Mega Dairy Pig Farm" at Max Wigram Gallery
Westminster: 99 New Bond Street, 6:30-8:30pm

Preview: Thomas Houseago "I'll Be Your Sister" at Hauser & Wirth London
Westminster: 23 Savile Row, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Patricia Bickers on The London Open" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, 7pm

Performance: Lucienne Cole "Sophisticated Boom Boom" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free - Meet by the Cloakroom, 8pm

Friday, September 7

Preview: Rafael Rozendaal "Popular Screen Sizes" at The Composing Rooms
Tower Hamlets: 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E16LA, 6-8pm

Preview: Kate Atkin "Like A Stone" at Acme Studios
Tower Hamlets: 44 Bonner Rd, 6-8pm

+ Preview: Alli Sharma / Mimei Thompson / David Wojtowycz / N, Andrew Bracey / Jackie Chettur / Paul Kindersley / "Still" Launch of Garageland 14: Film at Hackney Picturehouse
Hackney: 270 Mare Street, 6-8pm at Transition Gallery 7-10pm at Hackney Picture House

Preview: "Festival Britain" A solo project by Andy Harper at James Freeman Gallery
Islington: 354 Upper Street , 6-9pm

Saturday, September 8

Artist Talk: "Thomas Houseago in conversation with Michael Stanley" at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Westminster: 12 Carlton House Terrace The Mall, 5, 4pm

Preview: Aleana Egan, Emily Wardill, Maria Taniguchi, Michael Dean "A Reader of Materials and a Writer of Forms" curated by Lucy MacDonald at MOT International
Hackney: 8 Andrews Road, Unit 54, 4-9pm

+ Preview: Eileen Quilan "Twin Peaks" at Campoli Presti
Hackney: 223 Cambridge Heath Rd, 6-8pm

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