The highlight this week is without a doubt the annual London Art Book Fair. Hosted by Whitechapel Gallery, the fair celebrates the best of international contemporary art publishing. Artcards features some of the most interesting book launches, performances, and discussions. Free and open to the public all weekend the fair previews on Thursday evening. Not to be missed previews this week include Ed Atkins at Chisenhale Gallery on Thursday and Roy Voss at Matt's Gallery on Sunday.

Thursday:
+ Preview: Ed Atkins "Us Dead Talk Love" at Chisenhale
+ Preview: "The London Art Book Fair 2012 Opening Night" at Whitechapel Gallery

Saturday:
+ Lecture: "Books and Sculpture" Head of the Henry Moore Institute Lisa Le Feuvre talks to graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge at Whitechapel Gallery
+ Performance: "ABC Artists' Books Cooperative" performances by ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative members Tanja Lažetic, Jonathan Lewis and Andreas Schmidt at Whitechapel Gallery
+ Lecture: "Women and the Graphic Novel" A debate on gender and artists’ comic books with artists and writers Christine Redfern and Caro Caron, and founders of graphic novel forum Ladeez do Comics, Sarah Lightman and Nicola Streeten. at Whitechapel Gallery

Sunday:
+ Preview: Roy Voss "Cast" at Matt's Gallery
+ Lecture: "Elegant Gloom" Writer Michael Bracewell, artist Dexter Dalwood and Young Kim (former collaborator with Malcolm McLaren, Manager of the Sex Pistols) discuss how contemporary art’s relationship to popular culture has changed in Britain. at Whitechapel Gallery
+ Lecture: "Talk and Book Launch: Documents of Contemporary Art: Memory" Editor Ian Farr discusses the diverse roles of memory in art practice and theory from early modernism to the present, on the occasion of the Whitechapel Gallery’s latest Documents of Contemporary Art book. at Whitechapel Gallery

Thursday, September 20

Preview: Henrik Schrat "Report on Probability B" at IMT Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 210 Cambridge Heath Road, Unit 2, 6-9pm

+ Preview: Ed Atkins "Us Dead Talk Love" at Chisenhale
Tower Hamlets: 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, 6:30-8:30pm

+ Preview: "The London Art Book Fair 2012 Opening Night" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 6pm

Book launch: "The London Bookshop Map 2012-13" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 6pm

Book launch: "Abced" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 6pm

Preview: Elmgreen & Dragset "Harvest" at Victoria Miro Gallery
Hackney: 16 Wharf Road, 6-8pm

Friday, September 21

Lecture: "Culture Now: Philip Long and Emmajane Avery in conversation with Sheena McDonald" at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Westminster: 12 Carlton House Terrace The Mall, £5 / Free for ICA Members, 1pm

Screening: "Safar: The Friday Forum" at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Westminster: 12 Carlton House Terrace The Mall, Safar: The Friday Forum, 15:00 - 15:45: Popular Arab Cinema - academic perspectives, 15:45-16:40: Arab Cinema in the uk - the present and the future, 17:00-18:00: Arab Cinema - in practice

Book launch: "Idioglossia" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 3pm

Lecture: "Commissioning Contemporary Art" Art critic Louisa Buck with Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 3:30pm

Lecture: "Anne Wagner: Behaving Globally" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Booking essential, 5pm

Book launch: "DARKITECTURE: Optimism and Experiment in the Work of Gerrard O'Carroll" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, no booking required., 6pm

Workshop: "Printmaking with Ditto Press, 11am-12.30pm" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 11am

Lecture: "The Culture of Curating" This event launches The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), published by The MIT Press. curated by Paul O’Neill and Dave Beech at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 2pm

Saturday, September 22

+ Lecture: "Books and Sculpture" Head of the Henry Moore Institute Lisa Le Feuvre talks to graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 1:30pm

+ Performance: "ABC Artists' Books Cooperative" performances by ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative members Tanja Lažetic, Jonathan Lewis and Andreas Schmidt at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 1:30pm

Artist Talk: "Penelope Slinger and Linder" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 3:30pm

Book launch: "Film and Book Launch: Shona Illingworth: Balnakiel" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 6, 4:30pm

+ Lecture: "Women and the Graphic Novel" A debate on gender and artists’ comic books with artists and writers Christine Redfern and Caro Caron, and founders of graphic novel forum Ladeez do Comics, Sarah Lightman and Nicola Streeten. at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 5pm

Artist Talk: "Artists on Artists" David Batchelor and Simon Patterson talk about the art that influences them with Tate Etc. magazine editor Simon Grant. at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 12-1pm

Sunday, September 23

+ Preview: Roy Voss "Cast" at Matt's Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 42-44 Copperfield Road, Dilston Grove is at the south west corner of Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA Phone: 020 7237 1230 Tu, 3-5pm

Book launch: "Discussion and Book Launch: Documents of Contemporary Art: Dance" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 12pm

+ Lecture: "Elegant Gloom" Writer Michael Bracewell, artist Dexter Dalwood and Young Kim (former collaborator with Malcolm McLaren, Manager of the Sex Pistols) discuss how contemporary art’s relationship to popular culture has changed in Britain. at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 3pm

Book launch: "Launch: Schizm Issue 5" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 4pm

Artist Talk: "Nils Norman: Edible City" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 12pm

Screening: "and In Conversation: Writer in Residence Ed Atkins with Gareth Evans" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 6 - Booking essential, 4:30pm

Screening: "Film and Book Launch: Ruth Maclennan: Anarcadia" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 6 - Booking essential, 1pm

+ Lecture: "Talk and Book Launch: Documents of Contemporary Art: Memory" Editor Ian Farr discusses the diverse roles of memory in art practice and theory from early modernism to the present, on the occasion of the Whitechapel Gallery’s latest Documents of Contemporary Art book. at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 1:30pm

Lecture: "Talk and Surgeries: Variable Format" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 2pm

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