Pop-up shops may suggest transient, cobbled-together incursions in down-at-heel, depressed high streets, but Londonart’s temporary residence is nothing of the sort. Not only is leafy Dulwich Village one of London’s most charismatic neighbourhoods, the only sign of impermanence at the online gallery’s pop-up shop is a table with laptop that serves as office space.

Its clean, white interior is reflected outside by a plain exterior and stark signage that hints at Londonart’s digital background without imposing a house style upon the art held within. Nor should it. For 15 years, the gallery has welcomed artists of differing generations, styles and interests, so its south London exhibition is necessarily going to be wide-ranging.

Pop up Gallery

With A Year In Provence, the Channel Tunnel and even a British Tour De France winner, our nearest continental neighbour may sometimes feel more familiar than parts of our home country. That was far from the case in the early 18th century when France was Britain’s mortal enemy and its people were portrayed most widely in Hogarth’s satirical works.That began to change after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815, and one of its most diligent visitors was the watercolourist John Sell Cotman, which is how Dulwich Picture Gallery draws us into one of the most unusual careers in British painting. Cotman In Normandy runsat the Dulwich Picture Gallery until January 13 2013.

John Sell Cotman

This exhibition presented by the Royal Academy of Arts, features major works from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. These works are a part of Clark’s collection of French 19th-century art. The majority of these pieces focus on the celebrated 19th century style of Impressionism. The 70 works in the exhibition are shown by genre from landscapes and cityscapes; marine views; genre paintings depicting scenes of everyday life; nudes; still lifes; portraits and paintings reflecting the contemporary interest in Orientalism. Clark really did have a varied and impressive collection.

Camille Corot, Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, 1835–40,© Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.55

This project at the National Gallery revolves around the powerful stories found in Titian’s masterpieces. These paintings depict stories from Ovid’s epic poem ‘Metamorphoses’ and the three that are on display at the heart of the exhibition, will be seen together for the first time since the 18th century. However, these pieces become minor characters within this show as they are only the basis to the project. The rest of the exhibition is built up on responses evolved from Titian’s paintings as each dark room shows a different art form and reaction towards the myth.

Chris Nash. Image concept: Dewynters in collaboration with the National Gallery. Design: The National Gallery.

For thirty-three years, The BP Portrait Award has showcased the very best in contemporary portrait painting from around the world. The exhibition has presented outstanding and innovative new work in a variety of styles and approaches, and it continues to be a highlight of the annual art calendar. This year’s exhibition features fifty-five works, selected from 2,187 international entries as well as being complemented by the BP Portrait Award: Next Generation project.

Richie Culver by Alan Coulson, 2012 © Alan Coulson

Andy Warhol: The Portfolios.Andy Warhol, king of the reproduced image, has work on show in the Dulwich Picture Gallery until the 16th September. Dulwich Picture Gallery is England’s first public art gallery, founded in 1811 when Sir Francis Bourgeois donated his collection of old masters. This exhibition, The Portfolios, features some of Warhol’s most eminent silk-screen prints as well as lesser known sets.

Andy Warhol Muhammed Ali © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York /

Night and Day is Armstrong’s most recent photography book. It contains photos taken in New York and Provincetown, during a nine to ten month period, in 1979. Armstrong is an American photographer; most notorious for his editorial shoots often seen in magazines, such as Vogue and GQ. He is also commonly associated with ‘The Boston School’ in the 1970’s, alongside artists such as Nan Goldin and Jack Pierson, with their known style of personal snapshot portraits. Armstrong first became noticed through his intimate portraits of men, frequently studying lovers and friends, in sharp focus.

Night and Day David Armstrong

This Norwegian artist is well known for the hysterical intensity of his most famous piece The Scream, as well as its unfortunate tendency to be stolen. However, this exhibition has a surprising effect as Nicholas Cullinan, the curator of The Modern Eye, illustrates a new perspective on Edvard Munch that I personally have never come across. This show reveals how Munch was influenced by cultural and technological developments of his era and not just by social realism, and moves away from his well known work, made in the 1880s and 1890s.

Edvard Munch Self-Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed 1940-1943 Munch Museum © Munch Museum/Munch-EllingsendGroup/DACS 2012

Artist Jeremy Deller and bat scientist Professor Kate Jones (brought together by Invisible Dust curator Alice Sharp) have created an experience where audiences can listen to the cool sounds of bats and see visuals generated by the sound of bats on their night flights along East London’s Greenway overlooking the 2012 Olympic Site.

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151st Celebratory Exhibition of the Society of Women Artists 1855-2012 at The Mall Galleries. Founded as the Society of Female Artists, The Society of Women Artists has held an annual exhibition since 1857. At present, there are 150 members of the Society. Their patron is HRH Princess Michael of Kent.

Sue Jelley Hot Jazz