The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans
Rough Version (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Artist Jonathan Yeo and myself have co-curated the permanent collection of artworks at the Dean Street Townhouse , which opens to the public on Wednesday November 25. The collection plays with the history and atmosphere of Soho and London, highlighting the breadth and brilliance of contemporary British art. The building has an amazing history. It was the location of The Gargoyle Club, a notorious hang...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
ROME (Reuters) - Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of humanity despite contrasting approaches to realism.
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Tim Parks Isia Leviant: Enigma, 1981 What happens in the brain when we look at a painting, listen to music, read a book? This was the subject of Neuroesthetics: When Art and the Brain Collide , a workshop conference at IULM University Milan bringing together a mix of neurobiologists and art historians. The atmosphere was tense and expectant, the art folk anxious that they wouldn’t understand...
Top ART News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
PARIS -- A rt aficionados have gathered in "The City of Light" this week for the 36th annual FIAC ("Foire internationale d'art contemporain"), the most prestigious contemporary art fair in France. Following on the heels of London's Frieze Art Fair last week, Paris' FIAC is hoping to capitalize on the momentum of this year's reported upswing in art sales achieved at the Frieze....
Luxist (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The big money's in Paris this season . Last night, a $24 million painting by Pablo Picasso of his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, was put on reserve at the VIP preview of the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain . The FIAC is France's largest art fair, and it follows the Frieze Art Fair in London. The French fair hopes to capitalize on Frieze's momentum, where dealers indicated that sales were...
boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Here is Victoria Reynolds ' work who take some stunning photographs of meat composing some very evocative carne-landscapes. Her work is very likely to be linked with Francis Bacon' s paintings (see former post ) as Gilles Deleuze describes it in his Logic of sensation : Pity the meat! Meat is undoubtedly the chief object of Bacon’s pity, his only object of pity, his Anglo-Irish pity. On this...
FIRST THINGS (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
In his Poetics , Aristotle observed that some works of art have a paradoxical effect. They represent things that make us cringe and recoil: Orestes kills Clytemnestra; Medea murders her children. Yet, even as we shrink from the brutality and avert our eyes in horror, we are nonetheless strangely attracted to and sometimes ravished by the scenes. What is ugly and brutal can exercise an aesthetic power...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Today at TNR, Jed Perl reviews Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective , currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition, which has already been seen at the Tate in London and the Prado in Madrid, features 130 works, including 65 Bacon paintings and other archival items spanning Bacon's career. Perl calls Bacon's paintings "modernist melodramas with just the right crowd-friendly...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
As a Brit, I am often proud that we (and I don't mean the 'royal we') manage to beat the Yanks when it comes to bacon_study1953cultural progress: the subway, Baseball, Gin and Tonic, we were there first. To this end, I managed to catch the Francis Bacon retrospective in at the Tate gallery in London last summer, and was bowled over by the range of work showcased (from the artist's early sketches to...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
The long holiday weekend is upon us, and what better way to spend the sunny hours than with an escape into the demented mind of Francis Bacon? The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just opened their Centenary Retrospective on the artist , the first major New York exhibition on the him in twenty years. The NY Times notes that it "won't do much to alter the polarities of opinion around Bacon"...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
NEW YORK, NY - The first major New York exhibition in 20 years devoted to Francis Bacon (British, 1909–1992)—one of the most important painters of the 20th century—will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 20 through August 16, 2009. Marking the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective will bring together the most significant...
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
On the eve of the Met's giant retrospective, a critic asks: Was Francis Bacon really the greatest painter of the twentieth century, or just a fascinating mess?
Luxist (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
Filed under: Events , Art , Books If you can't make it to " Francis Bacon : A Centenary Retrospective" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this month you can still enjoy the great painter's works courtesy of art book publisher Skira. Francis Bacon , a comprehensive study of the seminal 20th-century painter (and oligarch favorite ) "provides a radical reassessment of his major...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 03/22/2009
Christie's has been "sued by a Florida art collector over claims the auction house failed to sell as promised a self-portrait by Irish painter Francis Bacon for at least $40 million."...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/24/2009
Francis Bacon gambled that his paintings would deserve "either the National Gallery or the dustbin, with nothing in between". Bacon is still waiting for his show at the National Gallery, though his recent Tate retrospective is now at the Prado in Madrid. Picasso, who was appointed director of the Prado during the dying days of the Republic, now comes to the National Gallery. In 2006, 70...
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