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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 · Nov 9, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024

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

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

Evening Standard · Oct 11, 2024

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 · Oct 8, 2024

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 · Oct 4, 2024

‘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 · Oct 2, 2024

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 · Sep 26, 2024

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 Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2024

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

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

The Independent UK · May 24, 2024

Need proof who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor

Set for revival at the RSC, this perfectly structured revenge comedy has an earthy vitality that no aristo or scholar could have created

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2024