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Art beat: Durham lights up and the National Portrait Gallery gets flirty

Vanessa Thorpe: This week, a cartoon from 1878 retains its topicality and a record company mogul exhibits his sketchings

Published: 11:40 AM

Art beat: From TS Eliot's shelter to penguins across the Mersey

Vanessa Thorpe: It's a good week for preserving Britain's artistic treasures, from the British Film Institute's archive to the seafront shelter than inspired The Waste Land

Published: 12:28 PM

Art beat: Young talent takes the stage while the fourth plinth bows out

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: This week the arts world will witness 21-year-old writer Atiha Sen Gupta's debut play and an art show inside TV historian Dan Cruickshank's house

Published: 11:49 AM

Published: 11:49 AM

Art beat: Boris, the universe and the Museum of Everything

Vanessa Thorpe: From folk art to the Gramaphone awards via Tory satire, there's a great deal going on in the arts this week

Published: 12:33 PM

Art beat: Brian May, guitarist, astronomer and photography buff

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: The former member of Queen has published a book of vintage photographs, while Kevin Spacey is in search of new talent

Published: 11:20 AM

Published: 11:20 AM

Art beat: Knitted poetry and necrorealism

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: Next week Liverpool remembers the work of novelist Malcolm Lowry, and there's a display of brutal Russian art

Published: 12:10 PM

Published: 12:10 PM

Art beat: From Bruiser to the Brontë sisters

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: This week, Amanda de Cadenet's brother turns his hand to poetry and the Venice Biennale's largest installation lands in the Lake District

Published: 12:21 PM

Published: 12:21 PM

Art beat: Clash of the cartoonists

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: This week, the cultural world will see a draw-off between Fleet Street's finest cartoonists while Enron looks set to hit Broadway

Published: 12:41 PM

Published: 12:41 PM

Art beat: Paul McGowan's sinister triptych to Dartmoor

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: The artist frightens himself with his own exhibition, while ginger power storms Edinburgh and there's more excitement down at the fourth plinth

Published: 11:31 AM

Published: 11:31 AM

Art beat: Oliver Messel in Cumbria, Mike Figgis on the fourth plinth

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: The celebrated theatre director has a posthumous retrospective. Plus, what will become of Melvyn Bragg?

Published: 11:24 AM

Published: 11:24 AM

Art beat: Poetic justice for John Keats

The Hampstead romantic has a theatrical homecoming this summer – and also hits cinemas in the shape of Ben Whishaw

Published: 10:34 AM

Art beat: Preparing for the fourth plinth

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: Grayson Perry advised me to re-enact a Delacroix painting in Trafalgar Square. Meanwhile, artists are getting mutinous about Britain's immigation policy

Published: 12:54 PM

Published: 12:54 PM

Art beat: The original Bruno spoof, and Apollo 11 performance art

Vanessa Thorpe

Vanessa Thorpe: Join in the discussion as we ramble through the arts and entertainment hinterland, from surrealism in Leeds to art in Little Chef

Published: 11:39 AM

Published: 11:39 AM

Art beat: From Popeye to the plinth, and Penguins to Kinks

Vanessa Thorpe

Join in the discussion as we ramble through the arts and entertainment hinterland. What would you do with an hour on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square?

Published: 11:00 AM

Published: 11:00 AM