Exhibition of the week William Nicholson Pallant House ...

The secret meaning of Vermeer’s art

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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

No chance to travel? No problem: from Italy with Pompeo Batoni to the US with Edward Hopper, you can tour the world with artists instead, suggests Maev Kennedy