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...The elegant, wood-panelled Bar Cock — a favourite of the artist Francis Bacon, who died and was cremated in his beloved Madrid — is the place for old-fashioned cocktails....
...Home to the heavenly but bearing “a whiff of the demonic”; both piously ascetic and intensely luxurious – the beguiling contradictions of the Vatican have fired the imaginations of everyone from Francis Bacon...
...Glorious disarray — mulch and junk, torn photos, scraps of notes (“the brutality of fact”, “highly controlled chaos”) — around the twisted “Study for a Portrait of John Edwards” in Francis Bacon’s studio...
...Above the fireplace hangs Louise Bourgeois’ I Am Rouge, while a ruby-red hologram also by Bourgeois adorns another wall; Scarlet Mist by Vietnamese artist Ti-a Thuy Nguyen sits near the elegant curved bar...
...The ruby-coloured refreshment is the creation of global bar manager Tibor Krascsenics, who touts it as the perfect recovery drink: “The [white balsamic] vinegar settles the stomach, the tomato gives a kick...
...Jones’s tenure at the house has been punctuated by bold art partnerships, while his personal collection includes works by Matisse and Bacon....
...Francis Bacon’s gaping terrified mouths, of men and monkeys, come to mind. Moreau’s glittery fabulist world delights and engrosses, surprises and reveals....
...Emily Ruby Knight, brand partnership manager at Show Studio, married Daniel Alexander Harris last summer at York House, Twickenham, followed by a meal for 13 people at The Ivy, RichmondWe had only three...
...A kind of Disneyland of food where your burgers will be flipped by a grillman called Nigel and a milkshake shaken by your waitress, Ruby....
...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...
...Inevitably, I give the cold turkey the Sichuanese treatment, shredding or slicing it and tossing it in a spicy dressing that glows ruby-red from home-made chilli oil....
...They weren’t bad — but more bacon with its fat would have countered the acidity....
...At the same time, 38 miles away, Adam Denton opened a butcher’s shop called Ruby & White in the Clifton district of Bristol, next to his restaurant, Cowshed....
...The dancehall next door has Terry Allen’s photographs of Francis Bacon’s studio....
...With her press secretary trailing behind, she cuts a slender, polished figure in a ruby-red trouser-suit as she leads the way to a vacant table in the noisy centre of the room....
...Sterling Ruby has just opened a massive new studio in California; Anselm Kiefer has a studio in a former warehouse near Le Bourget airport, where he can churn out work....
...● Pour the bacon and onions into a bowl and set aside, leaving a little of the bacon fat in the saucepan (make sure there are no onions left)....
...Among its living artists are the Chinese Zhang Xiaogang, the Americans Sterling Ruby and James Turrell, and British artist Keith Tyson....
...So to acquire an original creation by one of the greatest jewellery houses in the world has now taken on the same status as locating a rare painting by Picasso, Rothko or Bacon....
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