On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, his body will be displayed ...

Frida: The Making of an Icon” traces Frida Kahlo’s posthumous transformation from relatively unknown painter to global brand.

Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

UPDATE: Francis Bacon’s Portrait of a Dwarf (1975) has sold above its £6 million to £9 million estimate, hammering down at £13.1 million with fees, or approximately $17.6 million. The painting, which ...

Matthew Sharpe receives funding from the ARC on the history of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. In our guides to the classics, experts explain key literary works. It’s 400 years since the ...

Christie’s offers Francis Bacon’s Portrait of Man with Glasses III (1963; estimate: £6,000,000-9,000,000) as a major highlight of its 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2025. Coming ...

The painter, like the filmmaker, created images that resonated with a specifically modern sense of horror. Some images recur. They’re spectral. They come out of the darkness — out of somewhere far ...

Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory and Head of the School of the Arts, University of Hull In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The ...

“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution’s first exhibition of the artist’s portraits. Featuring more than fifty key paintings from across his career, ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...