The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

The Louvre-Lens Museum is shining a spotlight on the clothing styles of painters, visual artists and sculptors through July.

London's National Portrait Gallery has revealed three exceptional finalists for its Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait ...

It’s been seven years since Victoria Beckham has been in New York with a new collection. She’s not giving up Paris, where she ...

He is best known for artworks such as 1946, Study after Velázquez's Portrait ... A plaque at the building recognises it as Francis Bacon's former home. Although artist Francis Bacon moved around ...

In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1998’s Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon, a sensual, sensitive biopic of the titular artist, which is screening right now via ...

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 ... Lacy in Study of Figure ...

“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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... some of the second-hand images that obsessed Bacon for decades. In Study for a Portrait (1952), the gaping mouth and shattered glasses of a woman shot ...

So, a show of Bacon’s portraits is, in a sense, perverse – which is plain from the off in Francis Bacon: Human Presence. Study for a Portrait (1949) isn’t a study for a portrait at all ...

Crime is a gamy ingredient in the story of Francis Bacon, the Irish-born British figurative painter who was best known for his writhing portraits and screaming popes. Like a mafia don, Bacon never ...