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Resistance review – a captivating century of protest and photography

Turner Contemporary, MargateMarches, strikes and other acts of defiance covering causes from anti-fascism to the Iraq war are captured in compelling detail in an exhibition conceived by Steve McQueen

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2025

National Trust planting 800 football pitches worth of woodlands over winter

The project comes as part of wider efforts to tackle climate change and bring communities closer to nature.

Evening Standard · Jan 17, 2025

Booze, bleach and bad blood: writer Iain Sinclair recounts tales of old Soho

Joanna Taylor discovers how one forgotten photographer helped forge the legend of Soho past — and immortalise the likes of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud forever

Evening Standard · May 14, 2024

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‘All of them were drunk’: Iain Sinclair on Freud, Bacon and the postwar Soho arts scene

The author on his new book about photographer John Deakin, being at ease in his 80s – and walking amid London’s fast-moving phone zombies

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud sells for £43 million

A Francis Bacon painting of Lucian Freud has sold for a record-breaking £43.4 million at auction.

Evening Standard · Jun 29, 2022

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud sets records in £43.4 million sale

The painting has become the most valuable work of art sold at auction in London this summer season so far, according to Sotheby’s.

The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2022

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud expected to sell for over £35m at auction

Painting, based on black and white photograph, last exhibited in 1965 as part of a triptych

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2022

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Francis Bacon portrait unseen for 60 years to make auction debut

Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud was painted by British artist Bacon in 1964

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

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