Summer begins with Cherry Blossom, wood, music and art festivals, plus The Weeknd and Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

Rouy says that he isn’t a party animal, although “I like a drink ... cannot be read—have drawn comparisons to Francis Bacon’s paintings, but Bacon is just one among a pantheon of ...

It’s arguable whether or not that bliss is preserved in the Florentine artist Jacopo Ligozzi ... for as Ligozzi’s contemporary Francis Bacon infamously wrote, “Knowledge itself is power.” ...

(Ralph Steadman Art Collection) Review by Sebastian Smee ... You can feel the Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon behind Steadman’s attempts to capture the anguish and perplexity beneath ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness ... Yet Bacon was radical in striving to uncover man's base animal nature through portraiture.

splendid new show Francis Bacon: Human Presence. In vital, varied ways, Bacon’s paintings mostly depict the human figure. The NPG opens with a wistful “Self-Portrait” splattered with red ...

We present an extract from Francis ... palette that defined Bacon’s work. In the final of author Maylis Besserie's Irish-French trilogy, her preoccupation with the art and lives of artists ...

The New York Sales at Sotheby's run concurrently with Christie’s Spring Marquee Week auctions and offer a similar lineup of storied masterpieces and works seemingly handpicked for the serious ...

Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan ... He claims the artist’s central goal was to “trap the fact” of our animal nature through painting. For Bacon, even truth itself is ...