Curated by Sara Chyan—a jewellery designer, artist, alchemist of volatile materials, and coach on the Innovation programme at ...

Large canvases, bold colors, and youth culture's hopeful influence reflect 'the right and wrongness of today.' ...

From Tudor art to The Wire, the gallery’s new director shares the music, books and places that have shaped her.

The Sainsbury Centre’s new films see well-known masterpieces of historic and modern art leave the confines of the museum and go out into the world.

"I believe that Jenny Saville is a genius," said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph; and of the 45 works in this "stunning" retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, there are "at least a ...

The artist has built a career treating anatomy as a canvas, as much as a subject.

They depend heavily on "those who get it " – "friends, family or romantic partners", who more likely than not "will often also be artists". Unsurprisingly, these collaborators frequently end up ...

Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure.

In Portrait of Man with Glasses III we see the artist celebrate the natural qualities of the raw canvas, celebrating both negative and positive space.

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 ...

The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.

Art the week recommends Francis Bacon: Human Presence – a 'stirring, splendid' exhibition 'Riveting' show at the National Portrait Gallery explores the artist's 'wild' portraits Newsletter sign up ...