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...More than 7,000 items were catalogued in Francis Bacon’s studio when it was moved to the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, while the Whitechapel Gallery had a whole show about studios last year....
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...Rawsthorne, featuring Bacon’s portraiture after 1950 and his impact on the genre....
...This passion goes back to shooting’s zenith 100 years ago, when success was measured by the size of a hunt’s bag: a party led by George V holds the record for killing 3,937 pheasants in one day....
...It’s about the 25 years of British art from the second world war to the ’70s – Hockney, Bacon, Freud and so on....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...V Vaccination Pretty much the only thing that stood between Novak Djokovic and this year’s Australian Open title. Oops....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...The message from the V-A-C Foundation, which runs the recently opened and vast GES-2 House of Culture museum in Moscow, is more muted....
...The bacon was grey. In a heap of fat and cholesterol, nothing had any taste. Charlie said French ships do a worse version....
...Saumarez Smith is an artist who began her making life working as a bookbinder, creating some of the most memorable and dynamic of contemporary bindings shown in museums including the V&A....
...“I went to see Savage Beauty [the 2015 Alexander McQueen retrospective at the V&A] many times. It felt like the opposite of the fashion industry, which was really speeding up....
...Her opening show is of about a dozen works by Ayana V Jackson, who questions the colonial gaze in the history of photography (works priced between $15,000 and $25,000)....
...This month it begins a series of special exhibitions that showcase the V-A-C collection, a trove of international modern and contemporary work that ranges from Modigliani to Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon...
...One of the most heart-wrenching paintings by Francis Bacon comes to Christie’s next month (October 6)....
...In response, Ben Affleck’s Batman must recruit a mob of caped bacon savers, which at length and volume he does....
...It was at the Arms Park in 1973 that Gareth Edwards scored a try for the Barbarians v the All Blacks, which experts say has never been matched....
...Collaborating with Stuttgart’s Staatsgalerie, Liverpool has garnered stellar German-owned works: Düsseldorf’s caged “Man in Blue V”, Stuttgart’s “Chimpanzee”, eerily close to Bacon’s bestialised human forms...
...Bacon!” one volunteer yells into a megaphone. “Where do we want it? Congress!”...
...Books appeared on Erasmus and Francis Bacon — both characterised by rigorous scholarship and acute critical method but also lit by the gift of historical imagination....
...Bernie Sanders brought home the bacon in his home state of Vermont and also Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota....
...controversy with “La Nona Ora” (1999), a wax image of Pope John Paul II being decked by a meteorite; “Him” (2001), a replica of Hitler in an attitude of prayer (up for auction at Christie’s) and in 2010, “L.O.V.E...
...A morale-boosting 89 per cent of the lots found buyers, and big prices were set for blue-chip British names: David Hockney, Lucian Freud, Peter Doig and Francis Bacon....
...The spaceship was a non-starter: Von Braun’s Saturn V, the rocket that powered Apollo, had killed it off....
...’s studio, which Bacon had used as a source for “Study for Self-portrait”....
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