An exciting week ahead in London. On, Wednesday Ed Atkins gives a special tour of his current exhibition at Chisenhale titled "Us Dead Talk Love". A number of previews in East London on Thursday and then Saturday head West for a preview at Alan Cristea Gallery or Alison Crawshaw's Saturday Session at the Serpentine Gallery. On Sunday don't miss Art historian and critic Michael Fried, Photography Critic for The Financial Times Francis Hodgson, sustainability expert Leo Johnson and artist John Riddy debate the distinctive authority of photography within and beyond the gallery walls in a lecture titled "Prix Pictet Conversations on Photography" at Whitechapel Gallery.

Preview night is Monday in West London with the exception of a new show by Liam Gillick at Maureen Paley.

Sunday:
+ Lecture: Francis Hodgson, John Riddy, Leo Johnson, Michael Fried "Prix Pictet Conversations on Photography" at Whitechapel Gallery

Monday:
+ Preview: Heimo Zobernig at Simon Lee
+ Preview: Liam Gillick "Margin Time" at Maureen Paley

Wednesday, October 3

Preview: Robert Indiana "Sculptures" at Waddington Galleries
Westminster: 11 Cork Street, 6-8pm

Tour: Ed Atkins "Us Dead Talk Love" A coffee morning and special viewing of Ed Atkins's exhibition. Cakes are generously provided by the East End Women's Institute. at Chisenhale
Tower Hamlets: 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, 9-10:30am

Book launch: "Talk & Book Launch: Art on the Underground" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 7pm

Thursday, October 4

Preview: Luke McCreadie at Acme Studios
Tower Hamlets: 44 Bonner Rd, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Matt Stokes at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Free, booking essential., 7pm

Preview: Emma Talbot "Bad Objects, Little Deaths" at Transition
Hackney: 8 Andrews Road, Unit 25a, 6-9pm

Preview: Hannah Brown "The Unseen Landscape" at PayneShurvell
Hackney: 16 Hewett Street, Free, 6-8pm

Preview: Yasmin Müller "Copia: Modern Disbelief" at Maria Stenfors
Camden: 21 Wren Street, Unit 4, Free, 6-9pm

Saturday, October 6

Preview: Edmund de Waal "a thousand hours" at Alan Cristea Gallery
Westminster: 31 & 34 Cork Street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Alison Crawshaw "Saturday Seminars" at Serpentine Gallery
Kensington and Chelsea: Kensington Gardens, Free, 3pm

Sunday, October 7

+ Lecture: Francis Hodgson, John Riddy, Leo Johnson, Michael Fried "Prix Pictet Conversations on Photography" at Whitechapel Gallery
Tower Hamlets: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, 5, Booking Essential, 3pm

Monday, October 8

Preview: Alice Anderson "From Dance to Sculpture" at Riflemaker
Westminster: 79 Beak Street, 6-9pm

+ Preview: Heimo Zobernig at Simon Lee
Westminster: 12 Berkeley Street, 6-8pm

Preview: Lari Pittman "Thought-Forms" at Thomas Dane
Westminster: 11 Duke Street, 6-9pm

Preview: Tom Friedman at Stephen Friedman Gallery
Westminster: 25-28 Old Burlington Street, 6-8pm

+ Preview: Liam Gillick "Margin Time" at Maureen Paley
Tower Hamlets: 21 Herald Street, 6:30-8:30pm

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