The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in London: Spring 2022
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see right now in museums and institutional art galleries. Each one comes with a… Read More
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The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in Mayfair
Destruction, revisiting art history, augmented reality, Bacon and charred wood.
Francis Bacon’s First Pope to be unveiled in London exhibition.
Gagosian to exhibit Francis Bacon’s first treatment of the papal image—a subject that would preoccupy the artist on and off… Read More
In the Shadows of Bacon
The Royal Academy’s ‘Man and Beast’ offers the chance to see many prime paintings by Bacon
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in Mayfair and Fitzrovia
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see this month – this time they’re all located close to each other… Read More
Francis Bacon ‘Man and Beast’ at the Royal Academy of Arts
For the first time in a decade, a major retrospective of paintings by 20th Century master Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is on display in London.
Francis Bacon’s ‘Pope with Owls’ estimate $35-45 Million to lead Phillips’ Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art.
On 17th November, Phillips will offer Francis Bacon’s ‘Pope with Owls’as the star lot of the New York Evening Sale of 20th… Read More
The Royal Academy of Arts to present Francis Bacon: Man and Beast.
In January 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts will present Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart… Read More
11 Art exhibitions to get excited about in 2021
What a year 2020 was! Glad to get that over but seems like the beginning of 2021 is going to… Read More
Watch Francis Bacon talking about his art in this 1965 interview
This week the RA announced details of their upcoming Francis Bacon exhibition. So we thought at FAD TV we would bring you this 1965 BBC video interview of Francis Bacon.
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
In January 2021, the Royal Academy of Arts will present Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart the development of the artist’s work through the lens of his fascination with animals and its impact on his treatment of the human figure.
Watch Damien Hirst talking about Francis Bacon
Here is the first video of a new occasional series of found video gems of the world wide web which we are calling FAD TV up first Damien Hirst talking about Francis Bacon
Surprises from Art UK
Art UK is the online home for every public art collection in the UK, recently represented to make 250,000 works easily searchable with a facility to curate your own show. Faced with so many options, I took took the simple approach of looking for less usual examples from some of my favourite C20th artists.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
Migration, couples, razor blades, a naked mole rat, swirls, demons and mirrors.
A new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s double-figure paintings
Gagosian is to present Couplings, an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s double-figure paintings. Bacon’s disturbing images—his portrayals of friends and fellow artists, and the deformations and stylistic distortions of classical subjects—radically altered the genre of figurative painting in the twentieth century.
Police recover three stolen Francis Bacon paintings
Spanish police have recovered 3 of 5 paintings by Francis Bacon, stolen in 2015. The 5 works by Bacon are estimated to be worth more than £22 million
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
A trippy tunnel, Bacon and Freud, Paris underground, contemporary Georgian and a starship trooper.
Cricket in Art : Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #197
Were there an Olympics for sports and games in art, I could imagine table tennis, chess and football as medallists. Cricket is a rarer presence, partly I suppose due to its limited geographical scope, so the yet narrower history of cricket pads in art, rather than mere genre paintings or celebratory statues of cricketers wearing them, is less than extensive.
Bacon, Picasso & Velázquez; together at last
Brit badboy Bacon’s Spanish and French influences on show in Bilbao
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week.
Francis Bacon’s painting gloves are going to auction
The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right
Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms; Maria Lassnig review – an embarrassment of riches
Tate Liverpool
The raw melodrama of Francis Bacon meets the humour and humanity of Maria Lassnig in this superb double bill
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Another 7 interesting exhibitions for you to visit chosen by art critic Tabish Khan
Francis Bacon drawings, never before exhibited in London
A selling exhibition of Francis Bacon drawings, never before exhibited in London, and extraordinary new paintings by Darren Coffield