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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?