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Things to do in London this weekend, from Billie Eilish to Bill Bailey

Mike Daw returns with his pick of the best things to see, do and hear this weekend

Evening Standard

Interns, vampires and a nice piece of Bacon – what to see and do this week

What else is January for but hunkering down with a good book or film, spinning out the time till payday? If your Christmas spending has just about left you with the price of a cinema ticket, there’s plenty on offer to enjoy this week.

The Conversation

Francis Bacon: Human Presence – a compelling look at how the artist redefined portraiture

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the National Portrait Gallery demonstrates.

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National Gallery to stay open overnight to meet huge demand for Van Gogh exhibition

Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale today as gallery opens for 24 hours for just second time in its history

Evening Standard

National Gallery pulls all-nighter for Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers final weekend

Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale as gallery opens for 24 hours for second time in its history

The Guardian - UK

Pirates invade Falmouth, camels trek London and Aus goes gaga for Kusama – the week in art

Yayoi lands in Melbourne, the Silk Road runs through the British Museum and corsairs real and fictional dock in Cornwall – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

The best art and architecture of 2024

Our critics’ highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio’s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art

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Inside the distorted world of artist George Rouy

Frequently drawing comparisons with Francis Bacon, painter George Rouy is gaining peer points for his use of classic techniques to distort the human form

Wallpaper

The making of ‘Queer’: Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino in conversation

As the reimagining of William Burroughs’ book, 'Queer', hits cinemas, Wallpaper* speaks to director Luca Guadagnino, screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes and star, Daniel Craig about bringing the text to life

Wallpaper

Surreal landscapes, psychedelic techno visions and pop art fairground rides – the week in art

Pre-internet computer creations get rebooted at Tate Modern, Graham MacIndoe documents his drug use, and a Keith Haring carousel is on show in New York

The Guardian - UK

Frank Auerbach death: Famed painter who fled from Nazis dies aged 93

‘A true giant is gone, but his remarkable legacy will continue to inspire and endure’

The Independent UK

Frank Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis, dies aged 93

Saved from the Holocaust by a sponsorship that took him from Berlin to London as a child, the artist later fell in with Soho’s artistic crowd including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: how Leonardo, Van Gogh and Monet help us to transcend the gloom

Four exhibitions in London this autumn remind us that creativity and imagination are the opposite of authoritarianism

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon: Human Presence; Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound – review

Likeness is almost beside the point as Bacon’s wild originality transcends simple portraiture. At the Turbine Hall, Mire Lee’s floating ‘skins’ are a one-hit spectacle

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Things to do in London this weekend, from Frieze to Francis Bacon

Join 60,000 others uncovering their new favourite artists at Frieze 2024

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Francis Bacon at the National Portrait Gallery is an emotional tour de force

‘Francis Bacon: Human Presence’ at the National Portrait Gallery in London puts the spotlight on Bacon's portraiture

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst

Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career lows to prove that his brutally frank portraiture can still take the breath away

Evening Standard

Francis Bacon at the NPG review: a gut punch of a show that's oddly uplifting despite all the darkness

Each canvas is full of feeling, soaked in volatile emotion

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The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon: Human Presence review – ‘This whirligig of horrors is the best Bacon show I’ve ever seen’

The hard-living artist’s distorted figures – deformed to reveal mortality, sex and death – often left their subjects feeling injured. But this biting show should leave crowds astonished

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Heath Ledger’s Joker was based on a Francis Bacon painting, says Christopher Nolan

Hollywood director is one of several leading creatives to speak of Bacon’s influence ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon gets personal, the poetry of decay and a sensory wonderland arrives – the week in art

The modern master’s portraits take the genre apart, Mire Lee explores entropy in the Turbine Hall and Haegue Yang enlivens multiple media

The Guardian - UK

‘Spend up, drink up, eff off!’ My 12-hour Babylonian crawl in search of old Soho’s louche magic

It was a bohemian enclave of drinking dens, dodgy bookies and after-dark decadence. As a famous book about the London quarter’s bygone charms reappears, our writer downs a breakfast negroni and sees if they can still be found

The Guardian - UK

Uncanny Visions: Rego and Goya review – it’s Little Miss Muffet vs the horrors of war

Goya’s disturbing etchings, full of terrors plucked from the edge of the abyss, leave Rego’s mildly subversive Nursery Rhymes looking like superficial sketches

The Guardian - UK

From Van Gogh to Le Va, Rego to the Renaissance: the best exhibitions for autumn 2024

From this year’s Turner prize and pioneering scatter art to Monet’s London and Goya’s surreal visions – there’s something for all art lovers

The Independent UK

Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach form part of Sotheby’s summer exhibition

Exhibition showing Britain as ‘melting pot’ for world renowned artists

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