Culture coach: the week's essential arts stories

? Danny Boyle unveiled his set model for the Olympics opening ceremony, which looked like a lovely big train set but without the trains. Glastonbury Tor, valleys and hills, a real plough doing actual ploughing; sheep, horses, ducks and chickens; a real cricket match; rainclouds emitting real rain: all will be part of the opening scene, but expect surprises ? the narrative will move on to present a more urban vision of Britain. (Some of my Twitter pals thought that a giant Wicker Man might be rather good to match this "mythic landscape".) Report from our Olympics editor Owen Gibson. You'd think the Mail would love this green-and-pleasant business, but they thought it resembled Tellytubbyland. The Mail also rather unsportingly published an aerial view of the set being built ? showing that the initial scenario will develop to show London and the Thames.

? Every five years the artworld gets an important tour d'horizon via Documenta, where the townscape and buildings of Kassel are filled with new work. Adrian Searle reviewed it. He missed the Spanish greyhound with the pink-dyed leg.

? By virtue of its Wagnerian length alone, Gatz is the theatre event of the week: an eight-hour-long uncorking of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel on the stage of the Noel Coward Theatre in London. Here's what our Michael Billington thought; and the Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish (four stars apiece in case you can't be bothered with the links).

? The Tonys were an unexpectedly good night for the Brits: a teary James Corden took best actor for One Man, Two Guv'nors, while Once, directed by John Tiffany and with movement direction by Steven Hoggett (who worked together on Black Watch) swept the board for musicals, with Irish playwright Enda Walsh taking the award for best book. On this side of the Atlantic Once had slipped under the radar; in due course it will find its way to London, probably via Dublin.

? Martin Amis's latest novel, Lionel Asbo, got a knocking. In the Guardian; the Telegraph; the LRB. After he said that women write sex better, we ran an amusing quiz: spot the gender of these sex-scene writers.

? Fondazione Prada bought a notorious, rarely seen installation by Kienholz. The Art Newspaper: "The lifesize tableau depicts a barbaric racist attack in which five white men pin down and castrate a black man."

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