Secret doors will open, champagne will flow and VIP access to the art world will be afforded the wealthy. But it’s a curious departure for a charity that champions free museum admission
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
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
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
The record-breaking price paid for a late, ungreat work shows the foolishness of collectors infected by a dumb new buzz around the artist
From Bruegel to Nabokov and The Silence of the Lambs, butterflies have flitted through our imaginations and into our culture. Patrick Barkham pins up the choice specimens – and finds out why new film The Duke of Burgundy is awash with them