French-born painter Balthus, who died in February, rarely gave interviews and maintained that he delighted in being anonymous. His friend of 20 years, the actor Richard Gere, spent a few days at his Swiss home in December last year, where they enjoyed a long discussion, full of twists and turns

A bank robbery and its portrayal in the film “Dog Day Afternoon” are the materials used by Huyghe to explore how fantasy shapes memory

David D’Arcy reviews the rash of films about art and artists now being made in the US

The artist's life story will soon be a minor motion picture, but cinema-goers could be disenchanted with such dramatisations