The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Francis Bacon nearly lost an eye after being thrown through a glass window by his "psychopathic" lover Peter Lacy a biographer has recounted.
time4time (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Francis Bacon had his right eye sewn back in place after he was thrown through a window by lover Peter Lacy. Photograph: Jane Bown via guardian.co.uk Posted via web from lichtconlon's posterous
{ feuilleton } (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Demons and beefcake – the other side of Francis Bacon
Lloyd Austins (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
RT @Dputamadre: GREAT! || Francis BACON :: A Terrible Beauty (recreating his studio). http://ff.im/bUj3I
Amrita Paul (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
In 1957 John Moores (1896 - 1993) sponsored a competition for contemporary artists at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, with the intention of showcasing the best of new British painting. The John Moores, as it is always known, has since been held approximately every two years. It has become one of the most familiar events in the British Art world and now forms one of the four main strands of the Liverpool...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
"Before the Sistine Chapel meeting, the invited artists are being taken on a guided tour of this collection which includes works by Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Matisse and Georges Rouault. They will be gently encouraged to make a gift of one of their works to the Vatican collection."...
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Francis Bacon was once thrown through a plate-glass window by an enraged lover, damaging his face so badly that his right eye had to be sewn back into place, according to a biographer
Lloyd Austins (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Sado-masochism and stolen shoe polish: Francis Bacon’s legacy revisited http://bit.ly/86Uomy
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
"In 1950, Bacon's studio would become the focus of attention for a three-day celebration that, in retrospect, was the coming-out party for a new variety of bohemia. In its excess it could also be seen as Bacon's debut as a star. The occasion was the wedding of his close friend Ann Dunn … Francis painted the chandeliers red to match his maquillage; an old queen belted out campy versions...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Art historian John Richardson's revelations on the troubled artist he knew as a young man Francis Bacon's was a life lived to extravagant extremes. His drunken excesses in the Colony Room Club in Soho; his carnivalesque, ruinous generosity; the formative occasion on which, as a teenager, his father found him wearing his mother's underwear and beat the living daylights out of him – all this is...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The territories of Francis Bacon's soul have been explored widely; they have been the subject of a film, books and endless speculation. But the senior art historian John Richardson – who, at 85, is working on the last volume of his acclaimed biography of Picasso, and who knew Bacon from his 20s – has now laid down his views and recollections of Bacon, amounting to a reappraisal of his...
Rough Version (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Artist Jonathan Yeo and myself have co-curated the permanent collection of artworks at the Dean Street Townhouse , which opens to the public on Wednesday November 25. The collection plays with the history and atmosphere of Soho and London, highlighting the breadth and brilliance of contemporary British art. The building has an amazing history. It was the location of The Gargoyle Club, a notorious hang...
Lens (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Roger Ballen's style may bring to mind painters like Jean Dubuffet and Francis Bacon rather than the work of other photographers. His haunting, cramped images, as Kristen Joy Watts reports, thwart any expectations of a clear narrative.
Elizabeth Robillard (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Guiltless Heart by Sir Francis Bacon
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
ADDRESS OF THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ON THE OCCASION OF HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE ON THURSDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2009, TO CELEBRATE THE UNIVERSITY'S EIGHT HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ON THE OCCASION OF HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE...
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