It's not often that your Culture section will fawn deliriously over a particular exhibition or event, we are far too aware that your decision to see things is your own and our responsibility is to filter through the frankly incredible amount of cultural activity in the capital to bring you what's hot and deserved of your oh-so frantic schedule. Today, though, is not just any day.

Oh, no. Going on display today for the very first time in Britain is one of the finest works of art ever created (and yes, today we are fawning over not just an exhibition, but a single artwork). You'll know The Scream by Edvard Munch, the onieric fantasy of a personal hell, made manifest on canvas. The image is so famous it inspired a series of Hollywood films - and their spin-offs.  Twice the painting has been stolen in recent years.  The face has become the personification of horror, itself contorted by fear, imbued within its very fabric. Like Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's smirking representation of Guy Fawkes, which has become the mask of Anonymous, this is a work of art that is now a common part of our consciousness.

The Scream, one of four painted in the 1890s, goes on temporary display at Sotheby's before it travels to New York to go up for auction on 02 May, where it is expected to sell for over $50million. You'll likely only have the chance to see this very sporadically in your lifetime (if at all, barring trips to Munch-museet,Oslo). Catch it here while you can.

We'll leave you with the text, written by Munch in his diaries explaining his state of mind at the time of the painting's creation:

"I was walking abling a path with two friends - the sun was setting - I felt a breath of melancholy - Suddenly the sky turned blood-red - I stopped and leant against the railing deadly tired - looking out across flaming clouds that hung like blood and sword over the deep blue fjord and town - My friends walked on - I stood there trembling with anxiety and I felt a great, infinite scream through nature.'

In every aspect, this is one of the most relevatory artworks ever made.

The Scream by Edvard Munch goes on display at Sotheby's today.

Marcus Coates is a shaman. He's also an artist. Shamanism occurs all over the world and over the past few years Coates has turned his search for anthropological nirvana to that most amorphous of lands: Elephant & Castle. Truly, here is a place on the fringes of the centre of arguably the most metropolitan of world cities; a place with balance in its settling and its transience. A place under the threat of the modernisation; a place defined by its blurred boundaries.

Two summers ago Coates and disco-thunder band Chrome Hoof performed A Ritual for Elephant & Castle at the Coronet Theatre. Now, playing from today, is Vision Quest - part documentary, part performance, this feature-length movie explores the redevelopment of Elephant & Castle with Coates' channelling animal spirit guides to undertake a vision quest on behalf of the area, its history and potential futures.

Screening, appropriately, in unit 237 of the Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre (everyone's known landmark) the film incorporates contributions from residents, the local authorities and property planners to evoke an alternative collective vision of what Elephant & Castle could be. It's a strange experience, but Coates is an able guide. Having completed a rich vein of work over the past couple of years, his is a strong artistic hand and the technique is assured. This is a unique film.

Vision Quest - A Ritual for Elephant & Castle is at Unit 237, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre until 22 April.

There are very few artforms more instantly alluring than portrait photography, particularly when it's portrait photography of an artist whose work spanned the bulk of post-war America and whose subjects included starlets such as Marilyn Monroe and Isabella Rossellini.

Eve Arnold learnt her trade from glossy magazines that included Harper's Bazaar. Her candid black-and-whites (and occasional colours) caught public moments and faces with a beguiling intimacy. This exhibition of one hundred pictures had been planned since before her death in January, and would have celebrated her 100th birthday. Instead, it's an 'In celebration of...', and a most fitting tribute.

Your dear Culture section has not covered the exhibitions of Art Sensus previously; the gallery (which sits on the border of Victoria and Westminster) focusses predominantly on a roster of Eastern European artists. Very interesting they are, too. It's a neat juxtaposition: 100 years, 100 pictures, and though Arnold was a great talent a hundred works is a great amount to ingest at one sitting. To get the best of this display return visits are definitely required. It's a shame that the photographer's centennial hasn't been celebrated in a retrospective at a major museum of modern art, but, like the intimacy afforded to her world-famous subjects, you get the first lady of photography all to yourself.

All About Eve is at Art Sensus until 27 April.