HARUN FAROCKI AT RAVEN ROW, LONDON
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For his first UK exhibition the revered German filmmaker Harun Farocki is showing nine video installations from his first two-screen project 'Interface' in 1995 to 'Immersion', 2009, about the use of virtual reality in the treatment of traumatised US soldiers following the occupation of Iraq. 
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ANNIE KEVANS AT FAS, LONDON
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Annie Kevans takes the allegory 'Ship of Fools' as the title for her latest series of paintings which addresses her interest in the changing perception of madness and its relationship with notions of success and achievement. 
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PETER DAVIES AT THE APPROACH, LONDON
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The tongue-in-cheek title of Peter Davies' new show - "The Epoch of Perpetual Happiness"- shares its name with one of three new paintings in the exhibition. Each work belongs to a different ongoing series and functions as a different idea or proposition of what might constitute a painting.
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THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY, LONDON
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The National charitable body The Mentoring & Befriending Foundation (MBF), in partnership with the Saatchi Gallery, has launched a major art exhibition as part of Anti Bullying Week (16-20 November 2009). THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM is a nationwide arts project for which children have been creating hard-hitting anti-bullying messages through colourful images, statements and patterns designed onto elephant sculptures. 
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REBECCA GELDARD'S TOP 10 LONDON SHOWS
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Highlights in London this month and coming up in December include new works by Clunie Reid (below), Miroslaw Balka's Turbine Hall installation, new paintings by Katy Moran, Olivia Plender's narrative on Britishness, a survey of video work by Dara Birnbaum, GSK Contemporary 2009 at the Royal Academy, and an exhibition of three major international sculptors: Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois and Alina Szapocznickow. 
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LAST CHANCE: KEITH TYSON AT PARASOL UNIT, LONDON
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Keith Tyson's work can be seen as an ongoing investigation into the question of how and why things come into being. This exhibition by the 2002 Turner Prize, entitled 'Cloud Choreography and Other Emergent Systems', focuses on the systems and processes that inform the creation of his work. The show closes on 11 November.
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AN EXHIBITION AND AUCTION IN AID OF THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CARE OF VICTIMS OF TORTURE, LONDON
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SUMARRIA LUNN is presenting an exhibition and auction, in association with the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (MF), showcasing work by key figures in contemporary art such as Paula Rego, Sarah Lucas, Howard Hodgkin and Michael Craig-Martin. All the proceeds from the auction will go to the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture, a charity dedicated to the treatment of torture survivors and organised violence.
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BHARATI CHATURVEDI ON JAGANNATH PANDA AT ALEXIA GOETHE GALLERY, LONDON
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Jagannath Panda is as much a marker of an evolving urbanscape as he is a participant in it. The son of a temple priest in Orissa, he explores in his work the unfolding of new forms of urbanism, particularly in the splashy, overbuilt, Gurgaon in the South of Delhi, where Panda now lives. This is his first solo show in the UK. 
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STEPHEN G RHODES AT VILMA GOLD, LONDON
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'Reconstruction or Something' is the first UK solo exhibition by American artist Stephen G. Rhodes. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a new film shot in the desert involving subjects manically and inscrutably performing a fort da ritual of the Iraq archeological dig scene from the opening of The Exorcist. 
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ROBERT COOK ON ROGER BALLEN AT HAMILTONS, LONDON
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The art of Roger Ballen is impossible to forget. It goes deep. Gets at places we didn't know were there. Maybe hoped weren't there. It makes us wild. It opens us up to those uncertain, shocking and frighteningly banal aspects of the waking dream, twitching between animal and human, the clean and the unclean, the animate and the inanimate, the lived and the imagined, the natural and the performed. 
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SIMON CALLERY AT APT, LONDON
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Simon Callery's 'Thames Gateway Project' represents an engagement with the changing landscape of the regeneration zone through the medium of painting - a tradition where we are accustomed to find evidence of our shifting attitudes in relation to landscape. The aim of this work has been to develop new forms for landscape-based painting in response to this new environment. 
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ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST'S FRIEZE WEEK
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Anthony Haden-Guest does Frieze Week, taking in Damien Hirst's new paintings at the Wallace Collection, The Age of Marvellous curated by Joe La Placa (below), Ed Ruscha at the Hayward, Ugo Rondinone and John Bock at Sadie Coles, Jonas Burgert at Haunch of Venison, The Museum of Everything, and the Kandinsky Prize at the Louise Blouin Foundation. 
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NEW SENSATIONS 2009 AT THE A FOUNDATION, ROCHELLE SCHOOL, LONDON
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Channel 4 and The Saatchi Gallery are delighted to announce that Oliver Beer is the winner of this year's New Sensations prize. The prize is open to art students graduating from BA and MA courses in the UK in 2009, and 20 shortlisted students are currently presenting their work in an exhibition opening in London on until 19 October. 
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PUT DOWNS AND SUCK UPS: MATTHEW COLLINGS' WEEKLY VENTINGS ABOUT THE ART WORLD NO 37: ART SCHOOL
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This week the scandal about the sheer badness of Damien Hirst's new paintings broke in the mainstream UK press, so I don't need to go on about it any more than I already have. One thing Hirst's failure to be any good as a painter points to, though, which hasn't been addressed directly yet, is art school. What can you be taught? What should an art school be? What should it get across? And that's the subject this week. I wont be putting anyone down or sucking up to them but just recalling my own personal experience.
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MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING, LONDON
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From janitors to jailbirds, mediums to miners, The Museum of Everything features over 200 drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations created by artists living outside the boundaries of mainstream society. Presented in a former dairy and recording studio in Primrose Hill, the works have been chosen by Annette Messager, Eva Rothschild, Tal R, Jamie Shovlin, Bob & Roberta Smith, Richard Wentworth, Idris Khan, Arnulf Rainer, Ed Ruscha, Jockum Nordstrom, Klara Kristalova, Karin Mamma Andersson, Mark Titchner, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave and Anthony Hegarty, amongst others. 
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PUT DOWNS AND SUCK UPS: MATTHEW COLLINGS' WEEKLY VENTINGS ABOUT THE ART WORLD: NO 36: POP LIFE
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An uncharacteristically free-flowing quotation from Jeff Koons is reproduced in the catalogue of "Pop Life." It is about how artists are not particularly glamorous by nature, and to make themselves so they have to access systems other than art. It was actually written by me. It comes from an interview for a magazine I did with him in New York, in 1989. At one point, to be provocative, I asked him what he thought of Ruskin and the cult of Nature. He leant across the table and asked in all earnestness, "Matthew, who is 'Ruskin'?"
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ANISH KAPOOR AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY, LONDON
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Already described as 'the exhibition of the autumn' in London, the Royal Academy's survey of Anish Kapoor's career to date also features a number of new and previously unseen works, including a select group of Kapoor's early pigment sculptures, beguiling mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures and cement sculptures on display for the first time.
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JOANNE SHURVELL ON MARNIE WEBER AT SIMON LEE, LONDON
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Catch the last week of American artist Marnie Weber's eery installation at the Simon Lee Gallery in Mayfair and prepare to be disturbed. The main gallery displays five life-sized ventriloquist's dummies mounted on the walls, sculptures and colourful photo collages, all relating to a film about the Spirit Girls, a fictional progressive rock band from the 1970s and their environment.
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GRAYSON PERRY EXHIBITS MONUMENTAL TAPESTRY AT VICTORIA MIRO, LONDON
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This autumn Grayson Perry will exhibit his largest work to date, a monumental tapestry that is three metres high by fifteen metres long. The work, which explores the emotional resonance of brand names in our lives and our quasi-religious relationship to consumerism, is peppered with names such as Louis Vuitton and Tiffany as well as high street giants, Marks and Spencer and IKEA. 
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ANNE HARDY AT MAUREEN PALEY, LONDON
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Anne Hardy's practice focuses on the construction of fictional spaces that she creates and photographs in her studio. Each set is composed with the camera's perspective in mind. She makes photographs that are rich with intrigue and detail, documenting assembled places that seem to carry the behaviour and personality of fictional and unseen inhabitants. 
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RYAN MCGINLEY AT ALISON JACQUES, LONDON
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For his first UK solo show the acclaimed American artist Ryan McGinley presents 22 new colour photographs shot in caves across North America. Over the last year, McGinley and his crew explored huge underground caverns - venturing into unknown territory, seeking out spectacular natural spaces, some previously undocumented - testing their fortitude and endurance in hazardous conditions.
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REBECCA GELDARD'S TOP 10 LONDON SHOWS IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER
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Rebecca Geldard selects form the autumn highlights in London, including Neal Tait at White Cube, Keith Tyson at Parasol Unit, Rosalind Nashashibi at the ICA, Paul Carter at Matt's Gallery, and upcoming shows for heavyweights John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha.
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ZHANG HUAN AT WHITE CUBE, LONDON
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In May 2008, an earthquake reaching 8.0 on the Richter scale struck the Sichuan Province of China, killing more than 60,000 people. Amidst the tragedy, there was a pig that lived, trapped, for 49 days, surviving on rainwater, rotten wood and a small amount of foraged feed. His survival was hailed as a miracle and he was given the name 'Zhu Gangqiang' ('Cast - Iron - Pig'). According to Buddhist scripture, 49 days is the amount of time that a soul remains on earth between death and transmigration. This pig's fortitude resonated with Zhang Huan, and is the inspiration behind his current exhibition in London.
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GENDER, WARS AND CHADORS: DISCUSSION AT SERPENTINE GALLERY, LONDON
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This October Canvas magazine is presenting a panel discussion entitled Gender, Wars and Chadors, focusing on Contemporary art from the Middle East. Following a massive surge of interest in Middle Eastern art on an international level, Western collectors and institutions are hot on the heels of this next emerging art market. Questions arise: What is the impact on artists? How do curators from the region respond to this demand and combat stereotypes? How can curators develop a more informed audience through museum acquisitions and curatorial practices to discover a region beyond violence and the veil? 
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KIERAN LYONS ON MICHAEL LISLE AT MADDER 139, LONDON
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The hilarity at the core of Michael Lisle-Taylor's work arises from a dance with military service that won't let go. It's an embrace that promotes its own laughter. It probes the interfaces of insubordination while acknowledging that discipline encodes behaviour that prevails when rupture and trauma take hold.
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TILO BAUMGARTEL AT WILKINSON GALLERY, LONDON
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Painting in a formal figurative style, Tilo Baumgärtel depicts stylized scenes that seek no distinction between both painterly urban, and pastoral realism, and the encroaching fantastical elements. This new exhibition by the German artist presents a body of recent paintings and works on paper.
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FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN AT GAGOSIAN, LONDON
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Schooled on both sides of the Atlantic, Florian Maier-Aichen makes photographs which reflect on the dual influences of the history of photography and the history of painting, whether drawing on such dichotomies as German Romantic painting and the pioneers of German "objective" photography, or applying his post-factum experience of American frontier art. 
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SUKI CHAN AT A FOUNDATION, LONDON
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In a London of fast-blinking lights and speeding commuters, cars and trains leave luminous comet-trails marking their passage through the night, and individuals reflect on freedom in the urban metropolis, or seek escape from the repetitive habits and conditions it enforces. Presented as an outdoor projection at A Foundation (10-12 September, 7.30-9pm) and as a twin-screen installation at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning (14 September - 19 October) artist Suki Chan's work is inspired by ideas of freedom of expression. 
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CARLA BUSUTTIL AT GIMPEL FILS, LONDON
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How is power represented? In her first solo show in London Carla Busuttil explores notions of power and authority in her paintings of world leaders, politicians and other influential figures. 
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PHILIP MOULD ON DAMIEN HIRST'S SOTHEBY'S 2008 SALE PART 4
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After the huge success of the Pharmacy sale in 2004, Damien Hirst decided to do it again but this time with a bespoke sale and estimates of over £100 million. But there was one problem: the morning of the first day of the sale Hirst's manager Frank Dunphy was greeted with the news that Lehman Brothers had gone bankrupt and that the expected credit crunch had officially started. 
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SIMON FAITHFULL AT BFI GALLERY, LONDON
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Simon Faithfull finds inspiration in humans' limitations. His current show at the BFI Southbank Gallery, 'Gravity Sucks', brings together for the first time the complete series of his 'Escape Vehicles', quixotic devices exploring the incomprehensible scale of the earth as an object.
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ROSALIND NASHASHIBI AT THE ICA
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Rosalind Nashashibi's upcoming solo exhibition at London's ICA will be the most comprehensive presentation yet of her work, presenting 16mm films from the last four years alongside examples of her photographic output.
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'BEYOND THESE WALLS' AT THE SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
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Site-specific works transform the South London Gallery and present an inspiring variety of approaches to using space and/or architecture as media. Including works by Esther Stocker and architectural collective public works, and some 'hard hat' events around the Gallery's renovation and expansion projects.
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JOHANNA BILLING AT THE CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE
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'Often I think I am after a way of communicating - sometimes perhaps with oneself - that we have lost contact with.' Don't miss the chance to catch up with Johanna Billing's latest work at the Camden Arts Centre, which is holding the artist's first major UK exhibition, to 13 September.
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MARATHON 12-HOUR CONVERSATION AT THE ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON
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Jeanette Winterson, Susie Orbach, Ruth Padel, Sophie Fiennes and Mark Haddon will be among those taking part in the longest ever conversation relay to celebrate the inaugural live performance of Longplayer at London's Roundhouse on 12 September. The marathon Artangel discourse will run alongside the historic live debut of the longest piece of music ever written, 'Longplayer Live,' by Jem Finer, a founding member of the Pogues, conceptual artist, one-time mathematician and an award-winning composer.
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THE MULTIPLE STORE 10TH ANNIVERSARY
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To celebrate its 10 year anniversary The Multiple Store has announced a new six-month residency at Westbrook Gallery, London W1 from August 2009 - February 2010, plus an inaugural show in the space (11 September - 3 October) featuring new prints by Fiona Banner, Dan Hays and Simon Periton as well as a selection of 3D commissions by Cornelia Parker, Langlands & Bell, Anya Gallaccio and Alison Wilding.
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PHILIP MOULD ON DAMIEN HIRST'S PHARMACY SALE PART 3
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Philip Mould continues the story of one of the most significant sales of contemporary art which all began when Sotheby's Oliver Barker spotted Damien Hirst's Pharmacy Restaurant closing down from the number 94 bus. This was followed shortly after by the Momart fire which destroyed hundreds of works of art and led Hirst to decide to sell the contents of the restaurant. 
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NO.W.HERE FREE CINEMA SCHOOL AT THE SERPENTINE, LONDON
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Until September 20th no.w.here and Khalid Abdalla take up residence at the Serpentine Gallery's Centre for Possible Studies. Taking the form of a Free Cinema School, the Centre for Possible Studies will be transformed into a space for 'thinking, workshops, an archive of process and a site of film production local to Edgware Road'.
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TATE SEEKS NEW DIRECTOR FOR TATE BRITAIN, LONDON
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Tate Britain, the home of British art from 1500 to the present, is seeking to appoint a Director to lead the Gallery. The new Director will succeed Stephen Deuchar, who has been appointed Director of The Art Fund, joining Tate Britain at a time when a major programme of capital development is under way and when the opportunity to develop a vision of engagement with historic and contemporary British art has never been more exciting.
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PAULINA OLOWSKA IN NEW YORK AND LONDON
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Catch up with artist Paulina Olowska's recent work this September. 5 of her large-scale collages will be included in a show at Metro Pictures in New York, and she will be curating an exhibition at London's Camden Arts Centre.
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LAST CHANCE: 'SOUND ESCAPES' AT SPACE, LONDON
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'Why is one person's disturbing noise another's intriguing sonic landscape? In what ways are our emotions affected by sound? Are plants affected by music? Can you hear a photograph? Do ears make their own sounds? Does the microphone never lie?' 'Sound Escapes', curated by Electra's Irene Revell and Angus Carlyle and on until 15 August, invites visitors to explore some of these questions.
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PHILIP MOULD ON DAMIEN HIRST'S PHARMACY SALE PART 2
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Philip Mould continues his analysis of the now legendary Pharmacy Sale at Sotheby's in 2004 which was masterminded by Damien Hirst's manager Frank Dunphy: 'Given that Hirst is valued (by Dunphy) at $1 billion, it requires little arithmetic to understand why Dunphy soon became a serious art collector, amassing works not just by Hirst but also by Picasso and Warhol. Dunphy's favourite object is a small painting by Warhol of a dollar sign. "Every time I look at it, it reminds me of what I do," he stated laconically.' 
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LATE AT TATE: LATE NIGHT RADIO
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Tune into Late Night Radio tonight or, even better if you're in London, join performers at Tate Britain for an evening of live sounds, including a performance from 'The Great Learning' by Cornelius Cardew (pic).
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OSCAR TUAZON AT THE DAVID ROBERTS FOUNDATION, LONDON
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"An object, actually, that doesn't need any kind of support structure. It doesn't need a wall, it doesn't need lights, it doesn't even need to be displayed inside. It's just a thing." Catch Oscar Tuazon's new exhibition in London, to 19 September.
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