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

He’s photographed the world’s biggest rock stars and album covers, and tells Niall Hampton about his latest exhibition

The piece I’d never part with

14 JANUARY

STATE OF THE ART

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer made headlines when it was sold last month, but behind the dizzying price and the magnificent artwork hides the story of an ingenious ruse to escape Nazi persecution