A song of art and fire

As British contemporary art beats all odds to remain a cauldron of inventiveness and passion, Carla Passino discovers which artists aged 40 or under are on the radar of forward-looking museum directors and curators

LORI MEHTA’S ART is all about stripping away the excess to reveal what really matters. After years in graphic design and raising her children, Lori returned to painting, finding inspiration in the lig

Exhibition of the week Seeing Each Other: Portraits ...

At the magical Goodwood Art Foundation, a pineapple perches on a chalk bank, 16th-century music bathes an ancient copse and Rachel Whiteread’s cast of the underside of stairs climbs Escher-like into the sky. Charlotte Mullins goes exploring

Creation and destruction, death and rebirth: Anselm Kiefer at eighty

As a young girl, Polly Nicolaou was almost always to be found with her playthings under the kitchen table, such that her uncle would often sing, using her middle name: “Polly Mabel, under the kitchen