Chris Burden created his third "Beam Drop" sculpture live before the public on 30 May at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, where a retrospective of his work is showing until September. Using a crane, the American artist dropped a series of steel beams from a height of 35 metres into a bed of wet concrete, in what was described as a performance of gravity and chance. "It's like watching a plane-crash," he said, "only without the dead people."

The restaurant Dell'Anno in Kortrijk has won the final of the outrageously popular VTM television series Mijn Restaurant! For several months, viewers have watched the temperamental chef Claudio Dell'Anno and his long-suffering girlfriend Gaëlle Six compete against four other teams to be allowed to walk away with their own restaurant. In a tense final, Dell'Anno defeated Bigarreaux restaurant in Sint-Truiden with 58% of the public vote. As with the first series last year, some tension was caused when Mobistar reported it was unable to register some votes for Sint-Truiden for a period over the weekend preceding the final. VTM decided to annul all votes for both candidates during that period, but both sides are reported to be taking legal advice. An estimated 1.5 million people watched the final, or 48% of the viewing public - the highest rating for VTM in 11 years.

Studio 100 has asked the Council of State to annul a decision by outgoing culture minister Bert Anciaux to subsidise the organisation Musical van Vlaanderen for three years. MvV is an arm of the private company Music Hall Group, which, like Studio 100, puts on theatre shows across the country. Studio 100 claims the subsidies distort competition. A spokesman for Anciaux pointed out that Studio 100 did not apply for a subsidy in the first place.