By Sonia Zhuravlyova

My Own Art Collection is a new website which enables people to design and curate a virtual collection featuring real works of art supplied by galleries from across the country. Once you are happy with your collection, you can submit your room to the Arts Council for a chance to win some dosh (which of course will go towards purchasing a piece of art to hang in your real living room). This is the Art Council's push to get more people interested in modern art so get curating!

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 Alice Jones

Transferring to the West End is the holy grail for many theatre producers. But transferring to Elephant and Castle shopping centre in south-east London is decidedly uncharted territory. Until now, that is.

From tomorrow (until Saturday), the cast and crew of Oxford Street, which recently completed a sell-out run at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, will play four days in a disused shop in the soon to be demolished red monolith, alongside Tesco, Woolworths and Peacocks.

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 Ciar Byrne

“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle…This other Eden, demi-paradise”. When William Shakespeare put these words into the mouth of John of Gaunt in Richard II, he was not presenting an optimistic view of England, but speaking against the backdrop of a country that was falling to pieces, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director Michael Boyd argued in a debate on Shakespeare, England & Identity at the Roundhouse in Camden, London, on Sunday, one of a series of talks tying in with the RSC’s current sell-out season of the history plays.

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.

By Ciar Byrne

Emerging from a 29-day sojourn in Wormwood Scrubs earlier this week, with crucifixes hanging from his neck and a fag dangling from his mouth, Pete Doherty memorably described his time inside as "a lot of gangsters and Radio 4".

How reassuring to learn that the civilising influence of Radio 4 extends even to bad boy rockers serving time and that when not busy battling his drug addiction, Doherty enjoys nothing more than a spot of lively conversation with Libby Purves.

By Ciar Byrne

“I carried a watermelon?” OK, it was a cute line, in a film that touched the heart of every teenage girl. But the over-exploitation of this Dirty Dancing catchphrase by the hen night Mecca that is the current West End musical production of the same name has reached its natural conclusion in National Watermelon Day.

If you have still have “Hungry Eyes” for the oh-so-romantic coming of age tale of Baby, the middle-class girl who falls for Johnny, a dancer from the wrong side of the tracks, while staying with her family at a holiday camp, all you need do is turn up at the Aldwych Theatre by 10am on 4 August, yes, you guessed it, carrying a watermelon. The first 20 comers will win a free pair of tickets to the show that evening.

Then you too can croon, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life”. Or not, as the case may be…