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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 ...
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.
There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint portraits. At least, not in any conventional sense. Sure, he ...
Twentieth century greats Francis Bacon and Tom Wesselmann feature in a pair of must-see exhibitions starting in October at London’s National Portrait Gallery and Paris’ Fondation Louis Vuitton ...
There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint portraits. At least, not in any conventional sense.