As he looks forward to the A Love Supreme festival, Ivan Hewett recalls when jazz fans went on a festival rampage

Artist Dame Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, wins the Design Museum Design of the Year Award.

Two new publishers in Melbourne have cast a stylish eye over an oft-overlooked genre pet magazines

Over recent months, animal lovers in Melbourne have been hunting down a new and stylish, independent magazine dedicated to cats. As Cat People vacated shops, another Melbourne publisher was putting the finishing touches to Four&Sons, also a new and stylish, independent magazine but dedicated to dogs.

Youre entitled to an eye roll. Maybe you're thinking: dogs wearing flat caps, cats wearing cardigans, dogs listening to the National, cats knitting decorative replica cats out of organic kale. Adorably stupid kittens in strategic Buzzfeed lists: Look at me yawn, then burn fat with this one weird trick.

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John Cleese and co reunite this month, but one Python will be missing from the cast. Ken Levy recalls how a chance encounter backstage led to an unlikely friendship

April 1976. There I was, a fledgling reporter for my university's newspaper, come to see Monty Python live at New York's City Centre. I somehow managed to talk my way backstage hours ahead of showtime, when journalists from more grown-up media such as the New York Times were being kept at bay. I couldn't believe my good fortune as I was led through a maze of dressing rooms and wardrobe areas. Gilliam-esque stage sets met my gaze, as did a sign on a half-opened door that read "Carol Cleveland". I remember peering briefly into the empty room and seeing Ms Cleveland's bra hanging over a chair. Heady stuff.

Introduced by his ward, John Tomiczek, I suddenly found myself in front of Graham Chapman. He greeted me affably and invited me to sit while he prepared for the evening's first skit by zipping himself into a Spanish senorita costume.

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Being invited to join the selection committee was an honour - until the changes started, says Bonnie Greer

The comedian says that science is relegated because TV executives have art degrees and 'hated science at school'

Redtory Art & Design Factory, E9 Gallery, Guangzhou
An exhibition in Guangzhou called Yiban Yiban Yellah Fellah has featured three artists of mixed heritage

Yiban Yiban Yellah Fellah opened on a sweltering summer afternoon at Redtory Art & Design Factory in Guangzhou, the sprawling capital of Guangdong province in southern China. While the contemporary art scene in Guangzhou is less pronounced than in Beijing or Shanghai, it is this Cantonese-speaking area that largely spawned Australias early waves of Chinese migration from the mid-19th century onwards. That cultural legacy lies at the heart of Yiban Yiban.

Yiban is Mandarin for half, and Yellah Fellah is an Aboriginal term for people of mixed (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) descent. Hence this exhibition, curated by the prominent, senior Aboriginal curator Djon Mundine, comprised the work of three Aboriginal artists who also share Chinese heritage: Gary Lee, Sandra Hill and Jason Wing.

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Author Denise Mina could make it a hat-trick win as she finds herself again in the running for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

The mother whose books helped ill children tackle fear

The embroiderers who finished the Bayeux Tapestry

Artist Tracey Emin on what her most famous work means to her

A Saturn-shaped vacuum cleaner - and other Soviet classics

This documentary about the world's diets was hard to swallow, says Iona McLaren

This Culture Show restored punk to its fast-moving messiness, says Iona McLaren

The professional career of the TV presenter, artist and pop musician Rolf Harris, who has been found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault

At a Whitehall party for actors, musicians and presenters, the Prime Minister say Britain has 'punched well above our weight in culture and the arts'

Prunella Scales, actor: 'I had to keep schtum about my theatre family. In those days, you had to be raw working class'

I first met David Lean in 1942. I was a gofer at Denham Studios and he was a well-known editor, though not yet a director. We took a shine to each other we were both mad about film and started going to the pictures together with our wives. I remember one time David saying: "The sound is terribly low on this let's speak to the manager." The manager said loftily: "You don't understand. The film comes to us and there's nothing we can do." David said: "Let me up to the projector room." Imagine David Lean being told he didn't know about these things!

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The Who have announced they are doing one final tour to mark the 50th anniversary of the band. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey spoke to BBC News.

Pop star Beyonce tops the Forbes celebrity power list for the first time since her debut appearance on the list in 2004.