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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.
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...we develop skills in sorting out the conflicting claims made by these competing interests. It is truly amazing that Francis Bacon was so perceptive about the obstacles to clear thinking at such an early period of philosophical activity. Allan Powell is a professor...
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...this country-house exhibition is not "Francis Bacon on Camera" – yet another show of black-and-white headshots of the troubled painter – although there are a handful of him on holiday in Athens, in front of a photographer's shop in Soho, or posing in his leather...
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Times of MaltaFrancisco Goya rubs shoulders with modern mastersTimes of MaltaSpanish painter Francisco Goya rubs shoulders with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso in an exhibit at Milan's Palazzo Reale. ...
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Herts county under fire in school places rowAdvertiser 24Samantha Jacobs from Sandridge, whose son Aaron was denied any of his ranked schools and allocated Francis Bacon instead, also read about the advice ...
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The GuardianContested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James ShapiroTimes OnlineWhy she chose Francis Bacon, the Elizabethan statesman and prophet of the scientific revolution, as the real author is a mystery. ...Contested WillFinancial TimesContested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James ShapiroThe Guardianall 4 news articles »
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No Human Way to Kill: Paintings, Drawings and a New Book by Robert PrisemanAbsolutearts.comAn interview with Priseman by art historian Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon's biographer, was published in September 2008. His series of paintings, ...
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The GuardianWho really wrote Shakespeare?The GuardianOnly slightly less loopy is the theory that Francis Bacon is the true and secret hand behind the plays. The Baconians owe their ideas to the first of ...
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An Easy-To-Love Giant of British ArtWall Street Journal... the organizers sense a dip in the reputation of the man who, along with Francis Bacon, was Britain's undisputed champion 20th-century artist. ...Moore's 'Visceral' Blobs Plop Down at Tate Britain: ReviewBloombergall 2 news articles »
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Bay Area ReporterNot quite Shanghai'edBay Area Reporter... as well as monumental Chinese landscape and Francis Bacon's propensity for drama, Zheng Chongbin plunges into pure abstraction in this giant Rorschach ...New exhibit captures wonders and turbulent history of ShanghaiContra Costa Timesall 3 news articles »
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St Albans pupils' fundraising efforts for Haiti earthquake appealAdvertiser 24The children, some as young as three, walked, cycled or scooted their way up to the ruins of Francis Bacon's House on the Gorhambury Estate, ...
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Writers Guild Awards: Words Don't FailFiredoglake (blog)Remember Sophocles, Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Aphra Behn, Moliere, Oscar Wilde? They were like WGA members of their times, ...and more »
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...were the flabby butchers in the stained, straining pants?" The wrestling session commissioned by Francis Bacon. Michael Hoppen Gallery Two bodies in a bare, drab room, experimentally trying all the things they can do to each other, from grappling, groping...
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Last Saturday, March 31, we took the Megabus up to Milwaukee, to witness the Francis Bacon exhibition, and to see firsthand the architectural design of Santiago Calatrava.
We were under the impression that the Milwaukee Art Museum was a reciprocal
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"The Appendix" is ARTINFO's daily round-up of other reading material from around the world.
- More than a Luxury: The important of arts education. [WP]
- Conceptual Art for $2.25: New York's transit card has a very special message. [NYT]
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Francis Bacon had his right eye sewn back in place after he was thrown through a window by lover Peter Lacy. Photograph: Jane Bown
The territories of Francis Bacon's soul have been explored widely; they have been the subject of a film, books and
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Guardian Unlimited
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...BANGALORE: Francis Bacon is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, alongside Pablo Picasso. And in his centenary year, a group of Bangalore artists pay homage to him with an art exhibition `The Open Cage'. Curated by Giridhar Khasnis,...
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AN EXHIBITION marking the 100th anniversary of artist Francis Bacon’s birth opened at the Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, yesterday evening, writes
AIDAN DUNNE
Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty puts on display many of the contents of Francis Bacon’
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...â and indeed paid for â by Sonia Orwell, Zette Leiris and Marguerite Duras. In the Hugh Lane Galleryâs exhibition Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty , opening next week, you can trace a surprisingly detailed account of that evening through photographs taken...
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Irish Times
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H arold Klunder at Clint Roenisch Gallery Prices on request. Until Oct. 26, 944 Queen St. W., Toronto; 416-516-8593 'Real painters never give the public what it thinks it wants," I wrote in this column on Oct. 31, 2006. One of the real painters I was
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Globe and Mail
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Hidden in private collections for decades, they escaped the artist's attempts
to destroy his early artworks which he believed were inferior to his later
masterpieces.
Experts claim the pieces give a vital insight into how his interior design
work
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The Telegraph
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The figure has revealed itself again as an undying historical constant in an ambitious centenary retrospective of work by British painter Francis Bacon. The most important aspect of this show was its demonstration of how an already relevant painter can
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Huffington Post
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Look at that perfect Sunday. Makes you want to smoke a cigarette, down a scotch, smoke a cigarette and cheat on your wife with it. Then smoke another cigarette, all the while looking like dapper Don Draper. In other words, catch the season premiere of
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I was at the Metropolitan Museum today for another look at the terrific Francis Bacon retrospective that I've written about a few times. What struck me this time is how being surrounded by galleries of Old Masters at the Met brought forward aspects of
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Time Magazine
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Saracens has teamed up with Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, Francis Bacon Maths and Computing College, St Albans and The Links Education Support Centre, to encourage students to stay in school. Over the past 10 weeks at Francis Bacon School, St
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For over 400 years, scholars have been arguing that someone other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays and poems published under his name. Through analytical research, data proves that Stratford Shakespeare is not the same person as the Author
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By Lance Esplund New York You do not have to be squeamish to dislike the paintings of Francis Bacon (1909-1992), the Irish-born British artist who painted crucified sides of beef; screaming popes and apes with gaping mouths; headless bodies, bodiless
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Wall Street Journal
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I reviewed David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster and Other Essays in 2005, and have remained vaguely bummed since the brilliant author's suicide last year. Recently, an exhibit that cribbed his title caught my eye—a survey at Bard of Rachel
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Up now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the show “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective.” If you’re interested in learning more about the show, there are two radio segment that have recently aired on WNYC worth checking out.
First, Studio 360
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Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, discusses "Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective," the first major New York exhibition in 20 years devoted to the modern
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Beginning in the 1930s, the largely self-taught Bacon made a reputation - underground at first, then increasingly public - as a gay sexual adventurer, in times and cities that then still treated homosexuality as a crime. What he saw on the down-low,
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San Francisco Chronicle
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"Francis Bacon,” a retrospective timed to the centenary anniversary of the artist’s birth (he died in 1992 at the age of 83) is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hs toothy monsters, humping, anonymous men and slabs of meat installed
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New York Observer
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Beginning in the 1930s, the largely self-taught Bacon made a reputation - underground at first, then increasingly public - as a gay sexual adventurer, in times and cities that then still treated homosexuality as a crime. What he saw on the down-low,
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[Photo: A scene from the press preview of "Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images.]
That's a relief. For years I've wondered why the old reprobate attracts such a
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[Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art]
francis Bacon took no prisoners. His reputation as one of the foremost painters of the 20th century is based on his grotesque view of humanity and nihilist disbelief in life's meaning or purpose.
And it is,
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Up for seeing the works of a disturbed artist? I thought so. Head on over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Francis Bacon exhibit. His work has some serious shock value and you can see the impact on people just by watching their faces when
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Earlier this season, in what amounted to a curtain raiser for the
Bacon retrospective, the Gagosian Gallery mounted a show pairing work by Bacon
and Giacometti. There could not have been a better demonstration of the poverty
of Bacon's method. There is
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The Colony Room (1962) by Michael Andrews, showing, from right, Bacon, with back to viewer; the clubs proprietor, Muriel
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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
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Jed Perl is the art critic at The New Republic.
Is there such a thing as a wrongheaded tradition? I believe there is. And the most enduring one is surely the tradition of the artist as a romantic outlaw, which in the last
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Just read ArtsJournal colleague Jon Perreault's extensive and erudite blog entry about the Francis Bacon retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The opening paragraph sums up Jon's thoughts about the artist:
When it comes to Francis Bacon (19
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If you missed the Francis Bacon exhibit at the Museo Del Prado in Madrid back in the early part of the year, you have a second chance this summer. The reclusive artist, who produced only around 1,000 paintings in his 83-year life, is well represented
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The long holiday weekend is here, 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
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Francis Bacon did for despair what Michelangelo did for faith. He made it majestic. That's the conclusion you can't help taking away from the Bacon retrospective that opened May 20 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. I caught the show
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NEW YORK - Embarrassed by our former selves, we often recoil from the art we loved as adolescents. Artists we ardently fall for in our teens are frequently - and sometimes savagely - "dropped" later in life as our tastes become more sophisticated (or
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Boston Globe
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Francis Bacon: Three Studies for a Self Portrait
Francis Bacon: Head IV
Francis Bacon: Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne
Francis Bacon: Triptych in Memory of George Dyer
Francis Bacon: Three Studies for a Crucifixion
When they think of Francis Bacon,
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Francis Bacon is an artist for our time. You may love or hate his work, which is still vigorously polarizing after all these years. But more than that of any other artist who emerged at the end of World War II, his work tells us about the strengths and
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Francis Bacon believed there was beauty in the colour of meat, and it was possible "to be optimistic and totally without hope." Megan Buskey gets inside the artist's head on the centennial of his birth ...
If you were in London in the 1960s and wanted
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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.
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New York, May 25
The cover story looks for "the benefits of distraction and overstimulation" resulting from a generation's technology-induced "attention crisis." An expert on multitasking sees "a cognitive plague that has the potential to wipe out an
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