Kentan Jackson, from Gellideg in Merthyr Tydfil, beat off competition from 55, 000 children throughout the UK and his work will be shown in a special exhibition at the new Tate Modern gallery.

BBC: Welsh pupil wins top art award

Southwark Council has been particularly innovative, encouraging the construction of the new Globe theatre (see article), an extension of the Tate gallery at Bankside and a new market.

ECONOMIST: The Thames

The Tate gallery, a New York bhangra act and a dance troupe who mix hip-hop with morris dancing are to receive National Lottery money to go on tour.

BBC: Arts tours scoop Lottery funding

To take only the two most obvious examples, Sir Nicholas Serota, a former young Turk, presides at the new Tate, Britain's most popular gallery, and Charles Saatchi's once shocking collection of Brit art is on display in museum-space that he colonised in London's staid old County Hall upriver.

ECONOMIST: Too much of a good thing