Painting trauma: Francis Bacon’s suicide paintings
Francis Bacon, a painter known for his obsession with the male figure, painted the last moments of his lover's life as he ...
Pope Francis back home after a 5-week hospital stay for life-threatening pneumonia
Francis made his first appearance in five weeks. Doctors say he needs two months of rest and convalescence at the Vatican.
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Queer art has shaped the world and how we see it
During the Harlem Renaissance, queer Black artists and writers helped shape American culture, even as they faced persecution ...
The New Yorker9d
What Will Jonathan Anderson Transform Next?
The Irish designer turned Loewe into fashion’s most coveted brand by radically reinterpreting classic garments. Now he seems ...
New Statesman15d
What was the millennial?
while Francis Bacon and the doomed George Dyer exemplify raw passion. Trend spans the amorous range, from the unrequited and secret entanglements to love triangles and serial lovers, and his ...
The New York Times17d
Balloon Art You Won’t Find at a Children’s Birthday Party
Its teeth were bared and its yellowed eyes popped from its face. The girl’s face was ... twisting balloons into large recreations of Francis Bacon’s disturbing “Study After Velázquez ...
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Sitdown Sunday: Why people are flocking to Reddit as the rest of the internet gets worse
Barry Joule has claimed for years that a trove of paintings and papers that he has were given to him by his friend Francis Bacon before his death ... splotches of dried blood caked to her face and the ...
Liverpool Echo19d
Face of rapist who is today starting sentence for his 'heinous crime'
A man has been jailed for raping a woman in Ainsdale. Adam Francis, 32, of Holmdale Ave, Southport, denied the rape but was found guilty and sentenced today, Friday March 7, at Liverpool Crown Court.
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Lisa Cholodenko’s ’90s Lesbian Drama ‘High Art’ Will Premiere Its 4K Restoration at NewFest’s Queering the Canon
An unflinching, stylized portrait of painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) and his tumultuous love affair with small-time crook George Dyer (Daniel Craig) from visionary filmmaker John Maybury.
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Shuvaprasanna on his new series of paintings, ‘Face’
On the side lines on his ongoing solo exhibition Journey of Shuvaprasanna, that will be on till March 9 at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, he speaks with us about the same. One of my recent series, ...
Gloucester Daily Times21d
A weak Pope Francis thanks people for prayers
ROME (AP) — A weak and breathless Pope Francis thanked people for their prayers for his recovery in a remarkable audio message broadcast Thursday, the first public sign of life from the 88-year ...
Observer23d
The Courage to Choose Art
Art is not a luxury but a necessity—an essential tool for living. Francis Bacon’s work made this clear ... for the truths it demands you face. Choose it for the life it calls you to lead ...