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Raphael, Cézanne, Sickert, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois: this year promises plenty of big art shows

Read an excerpt from the book "New Waves: Contemporary Art and the Issues Shaping Its Tomorrow" by Marta Gnyp.

For her debut solo exhibition Heart of Anchor in the United States and at a href= https://salon94.com target= _blank Salon 94 /a , Zhang Zipiao has

Barry Joule, a close friend of the artist, says the gallery has not kept to a pledge to stage exhibitions of the works

Mehr Rauschgift, mehr Waffen, mehr Morde: Das Drogenmilieu wird immer gewaltbereiter. Das geht aus dem aktuellen Lagebild zur Rauschgiftkriminalität hervor. Der Drogenbeauftragten der Bundesregierung, Daniela Ludwig (CSU), macht das Sorgen: Immer mehr Waffen würden sichergestellt, "wir müssen das sehr ernst nehmen." Niederlande: Hohe Gewalt im Drogenmilieu Als abschreckendes Beispiel verweist Ludwig auf die Niederlande. Hier tobe sich die Gewalt der Banden offen aus. Auch das Attentat auf d...

Preserving the Don Banks Collection This appeal closed on 30 June 2016. Any donations received after this date will be directed towards The National Library of Australia Fund, which supports conservation and digitisation of the Library’s collection. Portrait of Don Banks in front of poster for UNSW Opera performance, photographer unknown, c1970-1980, nla.obj-136826587 Join with us to preserve and digitise the work of internationally acclaimed composer Don Banks (1923–1980). In a career spa...

                               Of Babylon, led by a child. his tears run down his beard   The ever-present genius of William Blake will be the subject of a series of literary walks this summer in London. Following the pandemic hiatus, Niall McDevitt returns with ‘Five August Blake Walks’ to take place on the five consecutive Sundays of August 2021. McDevitt, an Irish poet resident in London for 30 years, believes that the best way of getting to know Blake is by going out i...

Francis Bacon, 1984. (Photo by Ulf Andersen / Getty Images) In August of 1998, a team of curators, conservators, and archaeologists arrived at 7 Reece Mews, a small flat in London’s South Kensington neighborhood, to start work on the month-long task of transporting its contents to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. There, over the next five years, the team labored to painstakingly reconstruct the flat, which for some 30 years had served as the home and studio of Francis Bacon. The artist had ...

Knopf, 880 pp., $60.00 This episode suggests ruthless careerism, but as the Pulitzer Prize–winning critics Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan write in their new biography,  Francis Bacon: Revelations, the reality turned out to be more haunting. Beginning in 1972, Bacon regularly checked into the hotel room where Dyer died. He slept in the same bed where Dyer had cheated on him; he sat on the toilet where Dyer took his last breath. Bacon wasn’t spiritual, but these private rituals, which could l...

Country Life Trending: February 12, 2021 English painter Francis Bacon poses during portrait session in Galerie Maeght Lelong in January 1984. Photo by Ulf Andersen via Getty. Credit: Getty Images Martin Gayford considers the importance of snarling creatures, human and otherwise, in the art of Francis Bacon. Although the late Francis Bacon was a brilliant conversationalist, almost as gifted with words as he was with a paintbrush, he was deeply reluctant to expound on one point: w...