4 January 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
2 October 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Brit badboy Bacon’s Spanish and French influences on show in Bilbao
12 June 2016 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week.
2 June 2016 • Mark Westall
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
22 May 2016 • Syndicate
Tate Liverpool
The raw melodrama of Francis Bacon meets the humour and humanity of Maria Lassnig in this superb double bill
15 May 2016 • Tabish Khan
Another 7 interesting exhibitions for you to visit chosen by art critic Tabish Khan
11 April 2016 • Mark Westall
A selling exhibition of Francis Bacon drawings, never before exhibited in London, and extraordinary new paintings by Darren Coffield
14 March 2016 • Mark Westall
5 paintings by Francis Bacon have been stolen from the private residence in Madrid of J. C. B., a Spanish friend of the legendary painter who inherited the artworks when Bacon died, in 1992.
14 March 2016 • Mark Westall
A Francis Bacon painting has been discovered on the back of two paintings by Irish artist Tony O’Malley.
25 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms will be the first dedicated exhibition to survey an underexplored yet significant element of Bacon’s work.
4 December 2015 • daniel barnes
On the 24th anniversary of Francis Bacon’s death, 28th April 2016, the artist’s first definitive catalogue raisonne will be published, including over 100 previously unseen works and missing 4 that remain untraceable.
9 November 2015 • Mark Westall
“After the fascinating experience of working with Damien Hirst for our exhibition Self, in October 2014, I approached Damien again to see if he would consider another collaboration to coincide with Frieze this year” says Pilar Ordovas. “We embarked on a series of conversations, from which Damien conceived the idea of an exhibition, curated by Ordovas gallery, on the theme of the sea.”
3 July 2015 • daniel barnes
But then something mystifying happened, something so strange that it feels like we are free-floating in some kind of art market panic room of a cosmos. Francis Bacon’s Study for a Pope 1 did not sell.
28 May 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner-Prize nominated artist James Richards has selected Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait (1953) for this fourth and final presentation of works from the V-A-C collection, Moscow to be shown at the Whitechapel Gallery.
7 February 2015 • Staff
There is a great eclectic exhibition at Pace London titled ‘A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense’that takes as inspiration the character and career of celebrated art dealer and pioneer, Robert Fraser, curated by Brian Clarke.
30 November 2014 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features colossal art, LEGO, creepy sound art, self-portraiture and Chinese artefacts
26 October 2014 • Mark Westall
A scholarly institute dedicated to Francis Bacon will open this week in Monaco on Tuesday 28th October 2014, to coincide with the anniversary of the artist’s birthday.
9 September 2014 • VC Maurer
His birth name is Eric Inkala, but most people refer to him as: Ink. He draws, he sketches, he paints, he shoots and he is currently grindin’ in Brooklyn, NYC. Read more…
14 August 2014 • Mark Westall
WIN a pack of Artists’ Trump Cards
14 August 2014 • Mark Westall
You can now pit your favourite artists against each other,
1 July 2014 • Staff
The jewel in the crown was Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer..
3 March 2014 • Staff
The prolific career of Richard Hamilton, Britain’s pioneer of ‘pop’, is currently on show, being celebrated in style, as both the ICA and Tate Modern host exhibitions dedicated to the life, triumphs and innovations of one of the best of British art.
14 February 2014 • daniel barnes
There is a point at which the prices of artworks cease to be shocking, like when a tragedy reaches such biblical proportions that emotional responses make way for pragmatism.
12 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Skarstedt to open a Chelsea gallery, adding to their two existing locations in New York’s upper east side and London.
