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

Opened at last After 20 years under construction, ...

The secret meaning of Vermeer’s art

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

How and why women fall through history’s gaps

Exhibition of the week William Nicholson Pallant House ...