Emma Hacks, from Australia, will spend up to hours painting a naked model live at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London.

   Maria Malone Guerbaa, , from Limerick, Ireland, is able to create a perfect likeness of other famous faces including A list stars Morgan Freeman and The Queen.

   The year old has been locked up in Kerobokan Prison, Bali, since after he was convicted of heroin smuggling. He only began painting in .

   Chloe Dickey drew a huge floral design on a Port Macquarie beach on Saturday in under two hours.

   Red’ Hong Yi produced colorful renderings of Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Brazil’s Neymar and Argentina’s Lionel Messi.

   A bizarre but strangely wonderful concept of classic paintings and fine art work ’improved’ by a fat ginger cat, Fat Cat Art is rapidly growing its online fan base.

   Illustrator and photographer Sarah Rosado used cereal to produce renderings of famous musicians, including Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and John Lennon.

   John Poppleton, from California, creates mindblowing works of art painted directly onto human skin using fluorescent shades.

   The masterpiece was created by food artist Michelle Wibowo, using a staggering , individual triangles.

   Tisha Cherry, a New Jersey born registered nurse, takes inspiration from films, music, and celebrities, and recreates iconic images using everyday food.

   An art fan who unwittingly bought two paintings by street artist Banksy in Central Park for just each is expected to receive a , windfall when the prints go up for auction.

   Artist Jim Bachor has been filling holes in the road in Chicago by creating mosaics which use the colours of the flag of the city and feature a fake serial number to highlight the severity of the pothole problem.

   The incredible garden took years to create, and is a hidden haven near the A in Nottinghamshire, which has now become an unofficial tourist attraction, bringing in K visitors per year.

   Artwork to show at th edition Art Basel in Miami Beach

   The first thing I notice wandering through Sao Paulo is the lack of advertising. There are no billboards, outdoor video screens or ads on buses. Instead I fi...

   Carmichael’s plaintive, plain Sonya is one of the strengths of Lindsay Posner’s exceptionally starry but disappointingly lacklustre revival. Her blushing joy when she dares to say how much she loves Astrov is wretchedly moving.

   Lang Lang is a phenomenon. Apparently, million Chinese kids are learning the piano because of him. His name is as familiar as that of any rock star. And technically his pianism is pretty phenomenal too.

   The Effect at the Cottesloe Theatre, is immersive. The audience is transported to luxurious private clinic. Comfy banquettes with flower arrangements double as a lab where drug trials for anti depressants are taking place.

   Argo, the new film from the increasingly admired Ben Affleck, concentrates on another tale that is so astonishing it is difficult to believe.

   Vaughan William’s would have enjoyed this production by English National Opera London Coliseum and felt vindicated about its original poor reception in .

   Alt J are four Leeds University graduates with one claim to fame: their debut album, An Awesome Wave, has just won the Mercury Music Prize for the Album of the Year.

   Francesco Cilea’s L’Arlesiana, is a sure fire winner at this year’s Wexford festival. In the young Russian tenor Dmitry Golovnin they have unearthed a future star.

   A hundred years ago today Gyorgy Stern was born in Budapest. His incident packed transformation into Sir Georg Solti, one of the most renowned classical musicians in the world by the time of his death years later, is a fascinating one.

   There are too many mediocre performances of this box office cert, and one can weary of its charms. But that’s not the case with the Royal Ballet’s revival of Anthony Dowell’s production.

   Jermyn Street Theatre has got permission from the estate of Samuel Beckett to stage his play All That Fall, which he wrote specifically for radio, and has cast it with two of our finest actors, Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon.

   From the outside, the Sheeran phenomenon is puzzling. In concert, though, he is more than the sum of his parts. Standing on stage all alone, he puts more gusto into the task than you get from some indie bands in a year.

   It’s . In the wake of the Falklands War and against the backdrop of the Troubles, five squaddies and an officer are laid up with injuries at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital in Woolwich.

   Everyone knows Sir Hubert Parry’s Jerusalem, but how many know his unison song England, a setting of a paraphrase of John of Gaunt’s great patriotic speech from Shakespeare’s Richard II

   Young is excellent, hitting the high notes with an effortless sweetness while something both scared and deeply scary keeps seeping through that baby face. Anything goes round here, as long as it’s sleazy.

   After Twilight Of The Gods, an experienced friend confided: Covent Garden is one of the world’s great opera houses, but this wasn’t one of the world’s great Rings.’ Just so. But why was it so

   Lest we forget how good the music of the late Fifties was, here comes a new voice who seems hellbent on reminding us. And the extraordinary thing is, he wasn’t born till . Jake Bugg, an year old from Nottingham, is almost too good to be true

   In recent years a huge enthusiasm has sprung up for them. The Tate exhibition Pre Raphaelites: Victorian Avant Garde, featuring some of their most striking and impressive paintings, is a certain crowd puller.

   Sean Hughes was once all the rage. But his stand up career stalled and he settled down to the slightly less stellar heights of team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

   You’ve probably forgotten, what with the Olympics and all, that also marks the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth. It’s a fine excuse for Simon Callow to reprise Peter Ackroyd’s The Mystery Of Charles Dickens.

   It doesn’t do to second guess old Bob. Just as you’re settling in for more of the rocking chair grandpa stuff, Tempest turns into another thing entirely.

   Stephen Hough calls his extremely generous, minute, item French Album a sort of musical dessert trolley’, but that sells it short.

   Tamsin Greig’s Hilary has hit and she’s feeling battered. She arrives home, weighed down by her groceries in hessian bags for life, but more so by misery and weariness.

   Lovers of British music can now get the complete recorded legacy, on CDs, of Sir Clifford Curzon, the greatest English pianist of the th Century, for less than on Decca.

   A bright, forgotten gem by J. B. Priestley unseen since , Cornelius is set in the London office of aluminium importers Briggs Murrison.

   Tina Turner tribute show Soul Sister is both made and saved by Emi Wokoma’s sensational impersonation of the glamorous diva.

   Mark Small, of Great Western Ambulance service, was found guilty at a conduct hearing of the Health Professions Council. The panel is still considering what sanctions to take against Mr Small.

   Boris Johnson last night denounced dismal’ MPs for refusing to project giant images of British Olympic and Paralympic heroes on to the Houses of Parliament.

   This weekend the unique Pure Festival in East London that is sure to warm your cockles, by fusing top bands and musicians with whisky tasting a heady combination.

   This stunning collection of intricate works of art by Russian jeweller and goldsmith Peter Carl Fabergé is what the Royal family has amassed in more than a century.

   A London gallery is showing artworks, most of them unnamed, that have been stored away in Transport For London’s Lost Property Office since they were left behind.

   Jammie Nicholas, a year old art student, distilled Surplus from his own excreta, urine and sebum. The limited edition fragrance costs per bottle.

   The art lover bought the original piece a self portrait by Robert Lenkiewicz depicting the artist in a nude pose with a female model at auction for , .