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The week This week's events including a couple of talks at Whitechapel Gallery, an exhibitions at Café Gallery Projects and a......

Donald Eastwood

Some big institutions open up their autumn blockbusters this week, including Tate Britain's quintessentially Tate British exhibition 'Turner & the Masters' on Wednesday and the Royal Academy's Anish Kapoor exhibition on Saturday. Good-looking smaller openings include Head-Wig (Portrait of an Exhibition) at Camden Arts Centre and Lulled into believing at Man&Eve, both on Thursday. But as the academic year is now in full swing, I chose talks for this week.

MONDAY

The seventh London Design Festival runs throughout this week and while you can try to find out information about show's such as the Jane Withers In Praise of Shadows on the curio of their poorly designed website, there is a much more easily deciphered list of related talks at the V&A, the festival's hub here. Of particular interest is the Yves Behar talk on Thurday evening.

Also tonight is the first of the Jerwood Drawing prize's accompanying discussion and talks. This one is with two members of the selection panel Roger Malbert and Nicholas Usherwood - so if you submitted work that was not put on the shortlist, you can ask them why.

THURSDAY

2002 Turner Prize-winner Keith Tyson's Cloud Choreography and Other Emergent Systems exhibition at Parasol Unit, which opened last week, and has already whipped up a great deal of press. For this talk, independent art critic, curator and art prize panelist Sasha Craddock, will give an overview of Tyson's work at 7pm.

SUNDAY

Sunday brings the bumper-sized talk day. Rosalind Nashashibi is talking with the artist Olivia Plender about her work the ICA at 3pm, and importantly it is free to witness this discussion. However, if you are looking for a real lecture afternoon, the Whitechapel Gallery offers Goldsmith's Fine Art lecturer Richard Noble at 1pm discussing the political context of utopian currents in art practice, also free.

Then, also at the Whitechapel gallery tying in nicely with the day's Publish and Be Damned fair, Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Art Writing, Goldsmiths, and Paris based critic, curator and author Elisabeth Lebovici talk about modes of writing and publishing on the fringes of invention and discovery in Anglophone literature at 2.30pm. It is part of the Writers in Conversation series, curated by Maria Fusco, who as well as being Writer in Residence at Goldsmith's, edits my personal favorite art mag of the moment, The Happy Hypocrite.

Dean Kissick

SUNDAY

Just opened yesterday, 'Now You See It' is a new show at Cafe Gallery Projects in Southwark Park, concerning the idea of illusion: "although we know we shouldn't always believe our eyes - that the camera can be persuaded to lie, that illusions, fakes, hoaxes and phishing attacks are a part of everyday life - disbelief remains hinged on our trust in images. It's the ballast necessary for us ever to be fooled at all."

So this seems like a very topical subject, especially as it arrives the day after Derren Brown's attempt to hypnotically attach us to our sofas through the magic of television; and although this didn't work at all, his mind-warping films were very beautiful to behold. But enough digression, the exhibition is curated by Liz Murray and includes a highly impressive selection of painfully hip young artists: Cecilia Bonilla, Jemima Brown, Lucy Clout, Sarah Dobai, Andy Harper, Richard Healy, Hunt & Darton, Timo Kube and Katy Merrington. Visit Cafe Gallery Projects.

SATURDAY

My find of the week! 'NIGHT VISION' is a renegade outdoor photograph projection show in Vancouver, Canada, taking place at a secret location announced on the day. The premise of this project is "to bring focus to contemporary photographers from around the world in a community based setting"; creating an exciting social night out, a sort of underground drive-in cinema for contemporary art. So although I won't be able to attend, I think that this is a fascinating and innovative paradigm for self-organised exhibitions outside of the gallery. And what is more, the 'NIGHT VISION' blog and the photographers involved are amazing, so maybe have a look online.

SUNDAY

And on Sunday the entire young art world will descend like werewolves upon East London for 'Publish and Be Damned', the 6th annual self-publishing fair, surveying a wide range of independent publishers of magazines, fanzines, journals, diaries and periodicals. This initiative "celebrates publishing as a creative and critical space for presenting artists' work... [and] experimental approaches to making and distributing the work of artists, writers and musicians outside of the commercial mainstream." There's too many participants to list, but I'd particularly recommend: Bedford Press, Form Content - The Mock and Other Superstitions, Fun, Knights Move, Monika, Supercream, Under/Current Magazine, Unrealised Projects, X Marks the B-kship... but most everything will be cheap and brilliant! Visit 'Publish and Be Damned'.

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