By Arifa Akbar

Mark Wallinger, the former YBA who won the Turner prize for "State Britain", his installation of anti-war posters, has created a giant steel sculpture for one of Oxford University's most illustrious colleges.

The piece, called  "Y", will be his first ever permanent sculpture and it will be installed in the grounds of Magdalen College, whose quadrangles and famed gardens were once graced by Oscar Wilde and CS Lewis.

Wallinger, who will unveil his creation next month, won the commission from a shortlist of three artists including Fiona Banner, and Richard Kindersley. He told The Independent that he was delighted by the £136,000 commission, which includes £40,000 Arts Council funding.

By Arifa Akbar

Clint Eastwood has come out in protest at the high levels of Botox in Hollywood.

The man with the craggiest face in cinema - but handsome with it - has spoken nostalgically about the "individuality" of screen starlet's from the 1940s whose faces hadn't been tampered with by Botox.

In an interview with Empire magazine, he praised Angelina Jolie, who plays the lead in his latest film, Changeling, as a "throwback."

By Arifa Akbar

Men wear tuxedos at breakfast. Women are never out of their cocktail dresses. And the dogs poking out of their owners' handbags get smaller every year. It's party time at the Cannes Film Festival again and the second biggest question - after 'what will I wear' is always 'which parties will I got to tonight'.

By Arifa Akbar

Has Toby Young finally learned how to win friends and influence people? Apparently not.

Last week, we were told at the Cannes Film Festival that Toby Young's book, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, is being adapted into a film starring Simon Pegg (of Shaun and the Dead) and Kirsten Dunst. The book, which was all about his disastrous efforts to make a success of himself at Vanity Fair magazine, has earned him more adulation for being a flop than success at Vanity Fair ever could have. But has it made him a better person? Hmmm.

By Arifa Akbar

Mark Wallinger is the artist of the moment. He won the Turner prize last year, became known as the man who dressed up in a bear costume, and now, he's among a handful of artists who unveiled their artistic visions for an Angel of the South in Kent.

But it's not his giant white horse that he proposed for the Ebbsfleet location that is most memorable to me.