Visual Arts

Portfolio: Felicity McCabe

Anyone with a cursory interest in visual art will know that fruit is never just fruit, freighted as this most seemingly banal of subjects is with grave associations of decay and mortality. And so it is with photographer Felicity McCabe's shots of peaches,

Fiona Rae; New Order: British Art Today - review

Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Saatchi Gallery, London Fiona Rae is a heron in the landscape of contemporary British art - solitary, sharply focused and so motionless she appears rooted to the spot. Ever since she was shortlisted for the Turner prize

Charles Darwent on Alexander Calder: The man who put the 'post' into modern

On the face of it, Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp make an odd pair. Calder is plump, jolly and American: the famous Pathe film of him operating his 1927 Circus shows a 63-year-old kid in a red flannel shirt. Duchamp, by contrast, was sulphurously F

Pauline Boty: life and works - in pictures

Pauline Boty was a founder of the British pop art movement and Britain's most notable female pop art painter. She died aged 28 in 1966 and her name has largely been forgotten outside the art world. Now exhibitions at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery , the

Leon Kossoff's love affair with London

All his life, Leon Kossoff has felt compelled to draw and paint his native London. In the nearest that he has ever come to giving an interview, the artist, self-effacing as ever, explains how he has spent decades trying to get it right Last summer, durin

The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution - review

How did JMW Turner make such fine sunsets? With science and an eye for all that was going on around him Think of Turner and you think of ... Anthea? No! You think of sunsets right? Plus dramatic skies, daunting crags, wild seas. Well, maybe you need to t