It's been 10 years since Mark Hix began writing his weekly food column for this magazine, an anniversary we'll be celebrating in next week's bumper food and drink-themed issue. Over the past decade, the quietly influential Mr Hix has changed the way we eat, though he'd be much too modest to make that claim for himself. Meanwhile his restaurants, with their clever mix of traditional comfort and contemporary art, have supplied the template for many a copycat dining room.

The scale of this Scottish art festival makes others look meagre, and the quality of the work is very tasty too

The home-from-home ambience and secluded location of this hillside guesthouse make you feel like a local

If you are unfortunate enough to have acquired any Hirsts, sell them before they become worthless

Here is a fine painter at his finest – whose pictures, despite their bulk, show humanity at its frailest in an overwhelming landscape

Chris Killip and I are looking at the same photographs. But we are seeing different things. They are dense, vivid, solid, black-and-white images of working people in the North of England in the Seventies and Eighties. To me they speak of a grim, bleak, alienated breed – unsmiling, ground-down, resigned or even perhaps crushed and defeated. To him they celebrate the resilience of the human spirit.

Still a Sensation? A chance to reassess Hirst's 'greatest hits'

The Contemporary Art Society, a leading light for the promotion of modern art in Britain, is tomorrow auctioning off 44 works by some of the biggest names in the art world, including Paula Rego, Spencer Tunick and Bob & Roberta Smith.

Been to the Acropolis or Pisa or maybe Paris and found your holiday snapshot ruined by the bustling crowds?

An exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Charline von Heyl will open at the Tate Liverpool tomorrow.

Sotheby's is to auction the only privately-owned version of Edvard Munch's painting. Nick Clark

'Mona Lisa of the Modern era' goes on sale – and it's making a big noise in the art world

A version of Edvard Munch's masterpiece The Scream is to go on display in London in April before being auctioned in New York the following month.

Turner and the Elements is exhibiting in Margate. It shows perfectly the artist's genius for capturing the power of nature, says Adrian Hamilton