Golden years

The secret meaning of Vermeer’s art

The piece I’d never part with

The Big Apple’s annual Winter Show brings together handsome American furniture with Gustavian pieces, English folk art and an extraordinary samurai helmet, as a Rembrandt self-portrait stars across the ocean at BRAFA in Brussels

Exhibition of the week William Nicholson Pallant House ...

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

Ushering in the New Year are the Decorative Fair, brimming with good-quality antiques, and the London Art Fair, with its tradition of tipping artists in the early stages of their career