Tag: Francis Bacon

  • Jasper Johns: Regrets

    Jasper Johns’ new works at the Courtauld Gallery, Regrets, take inspiration from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the photographer John Deakin. The result is a powerful, if enigmatic exhibition

  • Ben Johnson: interview

    Studio International visited the Alan Cristea gallery to talk to the painter Ben Johnson. This is his second exhibition at the gallery, comprising five new paintings of half-real, half-imagined interiors. Born in Wales, a graduate of the Royal College of…

  • Rachel Howard: Northern Echo

    Blain|Southern, Hanover Square, London 7 February – 22 March 2014

  • A Delicate Game of Cat-and-Mouse

    The experience of art is not merely a matter of looking at it, but thinking and talking about it. For nearly 50 years, English critic and biographer Michael Peppiatt has been getting artists to talk about the art they create,…

  • The Mystery of Appearance: Conversations Between Ten British Post-War Painters

    The phrase “School of London” has frequently been applied to the artists showcased in Haunch of Venison’s latest exhibition, Mystery of Appearance, ever since R B Kitaj first used the term in relation to post-war British painting in 1976. Yet…

  • Francis Bacon: Five Decades

    Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 17 November 2012–24 February 2013

  • Eadweard Muybridge: Shaping and Shifting Our Point of View

    Linbury Galleries, Tate Britain, London 8 September 2010–16 January 2011

  • Francis Bacon at Tate Britain

    Francis Bacon (1909-1992) at Tate Britain heralds the artist’s centenary in 2009. It is the first retrospective since 1985, enabling a re-assessment of his work, although the exhibitions in Edinburgh, Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads (2005) and Norwich, Francis Bacon…

  • Seduced by the Oldest Topic in the World

    Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now Barbican Arts Centre 12 October 2007–27 January 2008 Sex is an extremely popular subject, but ‘sex appeal’ is nearly impossible to define. People seem to seek this elusive quality in everything they…