Leonardo is seen as the presiding genius of his age, but his drawings reveal a reassuringly human artist

Etgar Keret's memoir The Seven Good Years is mellow but full of deadpan humour about life's absurdities

Joseph Cornell’s shadow boxes are poetic windows on the mind of a man with a restricted life

Having stolen a Klimt masterpiece, the Nazis could only show it if they hid the Jewish identity of its subject

A superb new film vividly portrays the use and abuse of scripture by slavers to justify their evil acts

Behind the National’s interpretation of The Beaux’ Strategem is a lasting insight into marriage and money

This summer’s dumbing down is just the prelude to ditching everything this great festival stands for