Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on The Crucifixion, a painting by the Netherlandish artist Karel van Mander the Elder. This will provide a last chance to raise the money and save the painting, which is the only known work of this artist existing in the UK.

40 years after Time Magazine's famous 1966 'Swinging London' cover, the V&A explores the Swinging Sixties. Sixties Fashion will feature designs by Mary Quant, Ossie Clark, Pierre Cardin and Paco Rabanne among others. The display will explore the role of fashion in fixing the idea of London as the 'swinging' city in the popular imagination from the mid 1950s (when Mary Quant established her first boutique) to the early 1970s.

Soho Theatre, London, played host to Contact's spectacular Live & Direct launch last week. The launch gave Artistic Directors, nationally, the opportunity to meet past 'graduates' from the annual programme, and find out about the new work that is now being produced by them.

British real estate agents say that Russia's new rich are sinking millions into real estate in London and adjoining counties.