Sadly on this day, in 1992, the world-famous raw Irish artist  Francis Bacon passed away. Here we look back on his life and ...

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Matthew Sharpe receives funding from the ARC on the history of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. In our guides to the classics, experts explain key literary works. It’s 400 years since the ...

Fig. 1 – Triptych, Homing the Celestial Unseen (Oil on canvas, 3D print,2024). Curated by Sara Chyan—a jewellery designer, artist, alchemist of volatile materials, and coach on the Innovation ...

Elaine Wynn, the co-founder of Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts, billionaire art collector and philanthropist, has died. She was 82. The Elaine P. Wynn & Family Foundation announced her death on ...

Some images recur. They’re spectral. They come out of the darkness — out of somewhere far away and half-forgotten — and there they are. Again and again. Since David Lynch’s death, everyone has been ...

The painter, like the filmmaker, created images that resonated with a specifically modern sense of horror. Some images recur. They’re spectral. They come out of the darkness — out of somewhere far ...

Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory and Head of the School of the Arts, University of Hull In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The ...

In 1985, a 15-year-old Christopher Nolan was on a school trip to London’s Tate Britain when a poster caught his eye. It’s easy to see why. A streaked, shifting face hangs in darkness, its expression ...

“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution’s first exhibition of the artist’s portraits. Featuring more than fifty key paintings from across his career, ...

Masahiro Ito took to social media to break down the specific visual inspirations for the Silent Hill 2 enemies known as the Mandarin and Flesh Lip. Ito discussed the creatures at length and how ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...