The strange case of the parole officer, the painting and the LSD is a bizarre perspective on the value of art.

A former parole officer claims that when celebrated painter Peter Doig was a teenager spending some time in a Canadian correctional facility for possession of LSD, he did a landscape and sold it to the claimant for $100. Doig says he was never in a correctional facility (though he happily admits to taking LSD), never visited this part of Canada and has never met the man, let alone sold him a painting.

How closely connected is Beyoncé with Van Gogh, Manet and Titian? Not very, you say? Think again. Tumblr page Beyoncé Art History matches the timeless hits with the priceless daubs, proving that great pop really is for ever … or something.

Name that tune, then name the artwork. And for more, see @Leigh Silver

The UK's newest theatre, the Park, opened last night in Finsbury Park with the British premiere of Melanie Marnich's These Shining Lives, about the radium dial workers of the 1930s.

The 200-seat main house and 90-seat studio space, built with £2.5m of private money together with funding raised through trusts and foundations, has received plenty of high-profile support. The wide-ranging programme for the inaugural season includes David Grindley directing Maureen Lipman in Oliver Cotton's Daytona and David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face. The latter is timely at a moment when the lack of opportunities for east Asian actors in UK productions is under discussion.

With the "furore" of the next Jurassic Park film and the vexed question of whether or not some of the non-avian starts should be bedecked with feathers, I had planned on penning a piece about dinosaurs on film. With the sad passing of Ray Harryhausen recently, that more than doubles my motivation, given the superb work he did and the inspiration I know that he was to a number of palaeontologists.

I have more than a passing interest in animation techniques, special effects and the like, and celebrate Harryhausen's work as much for the actual achievement of the effects on the screen as the actual thrill from watching his movies.