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...Its former chief executive, Francis deSouza, quit the company last month after a bruising proxy battle against activist investor Carl Icahn, who criticised the deal as a “reckless decision”....
...October 9 to 13; further information here ‘Francis Bacon Portraits’, National Portrait Gallery An autumn show of the Irish-British artist’s paintings of himself and sitters such as Lucian Freud and Isabel...
...It turns out that Fee Hudson Francis, 27, and Matthew Bartram, 35, are staying in one of the other cabins....
...Auerbach, now 91, was an associate of Francis Bacon and is a contemporary of Lucian Freud and David Hockney....
...Finding Fame is the third film in Francis Whately’s Bowie trilogy, after David Bowie: Five Years and David Bowie: The Last Five Years and is by far the most intriguing, with new interviewees, previously...
...The houses were primarily rudimentary wooden homes built by people with boats but no planning permission, says Francis Stickney, associate director at Riverhomes....
...And Eno, in turn, left his fingerprints on the meditative, pulseless drones of Low-era David Bowie and Aphex Twin....
...The foundation has also produced an in-depth catalogue on Tintoretto’s “Angel Foretelling the Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria” (1560s), which Colnaghi sold in the 1980s to David Bowie....
...If you can read the signs, you can still spot where Francis Bacon stalked, where Bowie lounged or where Cliff Richard bongoed, but the olfactory signature is now purest Louisiana backwoods barbecue....
...“Francis Bacon said you should always be ready for the catastrophe in life....
...In a year in which the world lost performers such as David Bowie and Prince, RIP came in ninth....
...He has since built a collection of works by artists including Peter Joseph, Ryan Gander, Thomas Schütte and Francis Alÿs....
...And as the recent deaths of David Bowie and Johan Cruyff remind us, behind the dismal 1970s façade there were creative forces brewing....
...David Bowie holds himself aloft for “The Jean Genie” (1982), his body merging with the printed patterns on the record, art and creator as one....
...David Bowie was my huge number-one hero as a teenager”. A monumental canvas in the new show, “Lady Grinning Soul”, pays homage. “I was madly in love with him and his beauty, the lyrics sound so great....
...He became friends with Francis Bacon and David Hockney – exchanging frames for artwork with the latter....
...It felt like being inside the cinematic David Bowie songs that I played incessantly, with images of ice-cream parlours in the rain, conjured up in The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust album (the back cover...
.... £10,000-£15,000) once owned by David Bowie. Fine European Furniture, Sculpture and Works of Art Bonhams London, July 4 Fancy owning a 17th-century gem-studded ebony cabinet?...
...Hughes showed a clip of Francis Fukuyama discussing his book The End of History and the Last Man on The Late Show in the early 1990s....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...“Except for Francis Bacon, Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg and a few others, Andy didn’t really like artists very much. They were boring to him....
...The Ends of the Earth Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford Granta Books £25, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £20 A hundred years ago the Arctic and Antarctic were vast blank spaces, unknown and...
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