Martin Gayford is an art pilgrim who journeys around the world to view art 'in the flesh'. We join him in Romania, Japan and Iceland, in a remote part of Italy, and in France. Show more

Naoshima in Japan is not easy to reach, as Martin Gayford discovers, but this island is home to the most extraordinary collection of contemporary art.

Lorenzo Lotto is one of Martin Gayford's favourite painters. But the quest to see his pictures 'in the flesh' in Italy turns out to be tortuous, even for the most devoted art.

Martin Gayford is used to the 'quirks' of the avant-garde art world. Still, he is curious to be invited to Iceland to view Roni Horn's collection of samples - the Library of Water.

Anselm Kiefer, one of the greatest living painters, keeps a vast museum of work and materials, like part of a ruined civilisation, in the south of France. Martin Gayford visits.