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InterviewVisual Arts
Artist Frank Auerbach: ‘I was working at the very edge of my powers’
...Art historians Catherine Lampert, 77, and William Feaver, 81, come weekly. “It’s human contact now, as well. I spend all my time totally alone.”...
January 20, 2024
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
Melbourne in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening
...Until May 12; further information here Performance ‘The Almighty Sometimes’, Southbank Theatre Nadine Garner and Max McKenna star in Kendall Feaver’s award-winning play, which examines mental health,...
February 5, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Queen Elizabeth II
Portraits of the Queen tell a revealing story
...The Queen, according to William Feaver’s Freud biography, “kept silent in so far as she could” because, as she explained, “when he talks, he stops painting”....
September 16, 2022
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver — lust for life
...In fact Freud trusted Feaver with this project because he was convinced Feaver had no interest in his notorious private life. Here are now in total some 1,200 pages to prove him wrong....
September 24, 2020
House & Home
No mere truffle: could this delicacy be growing in your back garden?
...“But it was a Burgundy truffle,” says Feaver, who was called in to confirm the truffle identity....
March 13, 2021
FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
Best books of 2020: Visual arts
...Volume 2 of Feaver’s biography is affectionate as well as lively, also hard-edged, clear-eyed, as Freud would have relished....
November 21, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The home in 50 objects
The home in 50 objects #27: ‘Chinese Girl’ (Vladimir Tretchikoff, 1952)
...“Arguably the most unpleasant work of art to be published in the 20th century,” declared the critic William Feaver. “I wish it had never happened,” said another, Brian Sewell....
January 22, 2021
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver — born naughty
...in the copyrights on his published works” is about the most Feaver has to say about Sigmund’s shadow....
September 19, 2019
FT SeriesFrieze Week 2019
Captured on canvas: portraits at Frieze Masters
...One of the five people who regularly pose for the artist is the writer and art historian William Feaver. “I regard the weekly sessions as an enhanced form of psychotherapy,” he says....
October 4, 2019
Best Books of the Year 2019
Best books of 2019: Art
...The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968, by William Feaver, Bloomsbury, RRP£35/Knopf, RRP$40 You can’t like him but the outlandish, amoral antics of the painter, as reckless in life as he was fastidious...
November 22, 2019
Visual Arts
Lucian Freud and Jack Yeats — titans of modern art re-evaluated
...Freud said, according to Feaver, that “Yeats was Irish art”....
August 9, 2019
US foreign policy
Donald Trump’s ‘good soldier’ Mike Pompeo faces North Korea test
...But Mr Pompeo is serving a president “unlike any we’ve ever had in his disdain for regular policymaking process,” Mr Feaver said....
February 25, 2019
Iran nuclear deal
Iran set to break limits on uranium enrichment
...Peter Feaver, professor of political science at Duke University, said: “The administration may well try to trigger the snap back provisions of the sanctions — certainly the predicate has been met....
July 7, 2019
ReviewTelevision
Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything, BBC2 — a portrait of abstract art’s great showman
...The programme takes Scully far too much at his own and his dealers’ estimation, so thank goodness for art critic William Feaver, who sees too much bombast and self-vaunting behind the stripes....
April 5, 2019
Life & Arts
Tuscany Diary: John Kampfner on art and the making of a masterpiece
...Not too bad at all, says Feaver. Is he trying to be nice? I restrain the urge to jump for joy. I have to leave before the oil painting is dry....
September 1, 2017
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
News in-depthUS politics & policy
Trump loyalists lash out at ‘deep state gone rogue’
...“The vast majority of what Trump has wanted to do, he’s been able to get done,” says Duke University’s Peter Feaver, who worked in the White House for George W Bush....
August 10, 2017
US presidential election
US foreign policy experts round on Donald Trump
...the letter include former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff, former senior Pentagon officials Eric Edelman and Dov Zakheim, former senior state department official Philip Zelikow, and Peter Feaver...
March 3, 2016
FT Magazine
A life with Lucian Freud
...Speaking to [Freud’s friend, the art critic] Bill Feaver, Lucian had said, “If I’m putting someone in a picture I like to feel that they’ve fallen asleep there, or they’ve elbowed their own way in....
October 24, 2014
Life & Arts
Lucian Freud Drawings, Blain Southern, London
...What Feaver calls the “extraordinary allure” of Freud’s drawings was already apparent by the early 1940s, when, lacking human models, he sketched dead monkeys acquired from a pet shop....
February 20, 2012
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Frank Auerbach
...Now he has a “rigid timetable” of evening models: art critic William Feaver on Mondays; Jake on Tuesdays; curator Catherine Lampert on Fridays. “People create their own atmosphere....
October 5, 2012
Arts
The Art Market: Sales, resales and no sales
...Gallery, and now Blain|Southern and New York’s Acquavella Galleries have organised an extraordinary show of Freud drawings, borrowed from museums and private collections and curated by the art critic Bill Feaver...
February 10, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
The Pitmen Painters, Duchess Theatre, London
...Inspired by William Feaver’s book about the group, Hall takes a few liberties – reducing the group to five, for example – but tells their story with crisp humour and warmth....
October 14, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
Best books of 2012
...Lucian Freud: Portraits, edited by Sarah Howgate, National Portrait Gallery, RRP£35 Lucian Freud: Drawings, by William Feaver, BlainSouthern, RRP£40 The catalogues to this year’s two landmark Freud shows...
December 3, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Pick of the crop
...ART Lucian Freud Drawings, by William Feaver and Mark Rosenthal, BlainSouthern, RRP£40, 228 pages Lucian Freud, Portraits, edited by Sarah Howgate, National Portrait Gallery, RRP£30, 256 pages The catalogues...
June 29, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Books of the year
...more, lively, pertinent interpretations from Feaver, the artist’s long-term friend, critical supporter and model, and engaging interviews and photographs....
November 28, 2009

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