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The national archives of the Centre Pompidou in Paris is to receive a large collection of works donated by a close friend of the British painter Francis Bacon. Barry Joule said he had chosen to the French museum as a recipient instead of the Tate gallery in London after he…

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Barry Joule says he is cancelling plans to donate a collection to the UK gallery because it failed to exhibit works in earlier gift

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The artist’s progress from raw young punk to pretentious money-lover is on show in this collection of formaldehyde works. Even the shark is getting very shrunken around the mouth

Today’s Diary: Smelling a rat in Knightsbridge / Francis Bacon at the RA / Delia Smith’s distaste for other TV chefs / Parliamentary book club channels Fincher’s Fight Club

From Frida Kahlo’s sickbed to Cindy Sherman’s Manhattan loft and Picasso’s 60s chateau, this superb show exploring where artists work is nothing less than a portal into their minds

A new Francis Bacon exhibition at the Royal Academy in London is considered so extreme it’s been given a ‘trigger warning’.

The painter’s preoccupation with our animal urges is laid bare in this magnificent collection of nightmarish brutes and lovers in torment

Whether it’s Spanish melodrama or beastly visions you’re after, our critics have your plans for the week covered

Animal cries and distorted bodies confront us at every turn in this dramatic survey of the artist’s shocking paintings