The Tate of the North examines our visual relationship with celebrities

The video work will be displayed alongside other new photographic work

Actress, artist, disco diva, television star, lover of Salvador Dalí and a clutch of rock stars, talks about love, fame, fire and pain

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

London artists Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Gillian Wearing play bit-parts

Music Television and Madonna sponsor her late lover

A vanished variety of collectors: the priest, the Russian in exile, the actor, the V&A Keeper, the German and Dutch aesthetes—and a millionaire