WOULD to heaven there were unquestionable evidence that Bacon did write the plays contained in the famous folio volume published at London in 1623! Would that, as there is now what some folk think it ...

“I have always been very moved by pictures about slaughterhouses and meat,” the painter Francis Bacon said to an interviewer in 1962. He regarded meat with fellow-feeling. “If I go into a butcher’s ...

The facts of Francis Bacon’s life are the ones that tend to envelop interpretations of his work: he was an alcoholic, atheist, gambler, and homosexual in an intolerant age. This fraught ...

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This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...

The Houston Museum of Fine Arts’ new blockbuster is Francis Bacon: Late Paintings, which opened at the end of February. Organized by the MFA and the Pompidou Center in Paris, it looks at Bacon, an ...

LONDON, March 15 – A dark Francis Bacon painting of a screaming pope, said to be the earliest in his series of papal depictions, went on display in London on Tuesday, the first time the artwork has ...

July 8 is actor Kevin Bacon’s birthday. While his birthday alone is worth noting – he is an iconic figure onscreen, and there is that “Six Degrees” game – Bacon’s birthday reminds us of another iconic ...

Francis Bacon (b. 1909). Painting, 1946. On view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Estate of Francis Bacon; DACS; ARS) Warning: This graphic requires ...