Artists and Visas

"I said to them, 'I don't have to tell you what I am doing. I am an American citizen.' But they put me in the deportation room," said Galper this weekend from New York.

The Visa rules do sound pretty daft, but I can imagine what would happen if I'd said the equivalent to a US border official

John Martin: Painting the Apocalypse

Anyone within spitting distance of Sheffield should go to the Millennium Gallery and see this - well worth an hour or two of your time (even without seeing 2012 or Clash of the Titans or One Million Years BC). On until 4 September, free. Then at Tate Britain from 21 September - I suspect not free but you never know.