The greatest artist of the 20th century has been characterised as a bully, a narcissist and a man who feared as well as desired women. But are the stories really true? Jonathan Jones tackles the six million euro question
Fancy a holiday in Jimi Hendrix’s ‘gingerbread house’ or Kurt Cobain’s graffiti-riddled Los Angeles flat – and willing to pay a premium for the pleasure?
Despite what the great collector’s relatives are saying in a legal proceeding, her intimate museum in Venice is one of the wonders of the modern art world – and has in no way betrayed her joyous vision
A new study claims it does. Stuart Heritage puts the theory to the test in his local town centre
The record-breaking price paid for a late, ungreat work shows the foolishness of collectors infected by a dumb new buzz around the artist
Scientists review column on ocean acidification in The Australian newspaper and find it was ‘misleading’, ‘very wrong’ and ‘ill informed’.