My three days at Tracey Emin's mountain hideaway on the Cote d’Azur

Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones has not always been kind about the work of Tracey Emin. So what happened when the artist invited him to stay at her bolthole? And why was she so keen get him in the water?

I’m scared of heights. I’m scared of snakes. These were just two of the fears that Tracey Emin challenged when I spent three days alone with her on top of a French mountain.

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