Human Presence exhibit opened at the National Portrait Gallery. As part of the gallery's youth forum, I was able to visit for free; tickets are usually £23, but free for members. The exhibit features ...
The sensational squalor of Francis Bacon's studio seems to have almost as great a hold on the public imagination as his paintings themselves: it's the 10 Rillington Place of the art world, or the ...
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...
Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon are taking the title of their next film to heart. They’re set to direct the horror-comedy project “Family Movie” and star alongside their children, Travis and ...
Join Gregory Salter as he discusses how we might look at Francis Bacon’s art from the 1950s and 1960s through a queer lens. Many of Bacon’s paintings depict lone or coupled male figures, situated in ...