Francis Bacon is something of a Marmite painter. There are those who love him – his searing honesty and the existential ...

Francis Bacon’s work doesn’t pull punches. His portraits—distorted, raw and brutally emotional — are on full display at the ...

A packed survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London reveals an artist who was the architect of his own myth ...

Famed actor Kevin Bacon and his brother, Emmy-winning composer Michael Bacon, will perform in Crockett as The Bacon Brothers ...

After an extensive search and a candidate's rejection of an offer, the Los Angeles Lakers named former NBA player JJ Redick the franchise's next head coach in June. Dan Hurley, who coached the UConn ...

Autumn has arrived bringing with it the return of Frieze London. Running from 9 to 13 October, the contemporary art fair is ...

The last bit of the show focuses on those closest to him. His friend Henrietta Moraes is all sensual red swirls, fellow artist Lucian Freud is brutish and ape-like, the artist Isabel Rawsthorn is ...

Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career lows to prove that his brutally frank ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint ...

The triptych, which depicts Dyer variously as he was found, slumped on the toilet; vomiting into a sink; and heaving with ...

One of the artist’s many portraits of Henrietta Moraes, who was known as ‘the Queen of Soho’, is the highlight of a new show ...