The more time we spend glued to our iPhone cameras, the less we see

Apple’s iPhone 6 campaign is keen to remind us that we can all take beautiful photos. But while we stare into our screens we miss out on the richness of the world around us

Prada and Louis Vuitton are the new patrons of art – shame they’re so boring

Fashion houses are pouring money into shiny new art galleries across Europe. It should be explosive, but sadly they’ve left their imaginations on the runway

A Qatari sheikh, Picasso’s censored breasts and the west’s confusion over Islam

The media were horrified that Picasso’s nudes might be locked away by a conservative Middle Eastern collector – but the unfounded story only serves to highlight our hypocrisy

Why Peggy Guggenheim’s heirs should keep their hands off her collection

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

Splurging £102.6m on Picasso’s Women of Algiers is simply insane

The record-breaking price paid for a late, ungreat work shows the foolishness of collectors infected by a dumb new buzz around the artist

Don’t be sniffy about oil-rich states, Art Dubai funds the world’s most radical art

It’s not all super-yachts and spending binges: Art Dubai, which begins this week, is opening doors for some of the most marginalised voices in art