In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” ...

This compact yet brilliant show looks at how painters responded to the subjugation of real life in the 1960s media age, with its explosion of photos, film and mass reproduction.

Indeed, the careful, even tight-arsed handling of the circular forms protruding from the artist’s face contradicts everything ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was a giant of modern art, maybe the twentieth century’s greatest painter. He’s been analysed and over-analysed for decades. It makes you walk into this exhibition ...

Stephen Wakelam's play for Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow, reveals how Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to have a solo exhibition in the Soviet Union. This is the story of an ...

Their ethos – that art should be treated as a “living entity” – permeated the entire event. Between a Richard Avedon portrait of Francis Bacon and looming bronze sculptures by Alberto ...

how it has influenced her music In an exclusive extract from his monumental new book *Francis Bacon, or The Measure of Excess* for ACC Art Books, the French author Yves Peyré recalls long afternoons ...

Recorded in 1965, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies. Show more Recorded in 1965, this pilot for a ...

Image credit: CR No. 54-13. Estate of Francis Bacon/DACS/Artists Rights Society/National Gallery of Art/Photo: Greg Williams ...