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The Guardian - UK

Letters: more Tory MPs must stand up to Boris Johnson

Caroline Nokes called for the prime minister’s resignation, but surely she isn’t the only one who is listening to constituents

The Guardian - UK

Nicolas Cage faces off with a new foe: Himself

“Metropolis.”

The Independent UK

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Large Francis Bacon collection to be donated to Paris' Pompidou

The national archives of the Centre Pompidou in Paris is to receive a large collection of works donated by a close friend of the British painter Francis Bacon. Barry Joule said he had chosen to the French museum as a recipient instead of the Tate gallery in London after he…

Radio France Internationale

Let’s be honest - faiths divide us. It can be hard to see the ties that bind

As Easter, Ramadan and Passover festivals converge, it was a week in which I got to test my convictions

The Guardian - UK

Friend of Francis Bacon snubs the Tate to give art works to Paris instead

Barry Joule says he is cancelling plans to donate a collection to the UK gallery because it failed to exhibit works in earlier gift

The Guardian - UK

Things to do in London this Easter: Your guide to cracking the Bank Holiday weekend

A heatwave and a bank holiday? London, let’s do this. From free festivals to rooftop raves, David Ellis on how to smash Easter

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‘This is art for the penthouses of oligarchs’ – Damien Hirst: Natural History review

The artist’s progress from raw young punk to pretentious money-lover is on show in this collection of formaldehyde works. Even the shark is getting very shrunken around the mouth

The Guardian - UK

Londoner’s Diary: Nasty niff gets up noses in wealthy Knightsbridge

Today’s Diary: Smelling a rat in Knightsbridge / Francis Bacon at the RA / Delia Smith’s distaste for other TV chefs / Parliamentary book club channels Fincher’s Fight Club

Evening Standard

A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020 review – congealing palettes, fading light and magic

From Frida Kahlo’s sickbed to Cindy Sherman’s Manhattan loft and Picasso’s 60s chateau, this superb show exploring where artists work is nothing less than a portal into their minds

The Guardian - UK

The Leader podcast: Why this Francis Bacon show’s been given a ‘trigger warning’

A new Francis Bacon exhibition at the Royal Academy in London is considered so extreme it’s been given a ‘trigger warning’.

Evening Standard

Francis Bacon: Man and Beast review – the brutal truth

The painter’s preoccupation with our animal urges is laid bare in this magnificent collection of nightmarish brutes and lovers in torment

The Guardian - UK

From Parallel Mothers to Francis Bacon: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s Spanish melodrama or beastly visions you’re after, our critics have your plans for the week covered

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon: Man and Beast review – ‘I want to run away, but I can’t stop looking’

Animal cries and distorted bodies confront us at every turn in this dramatic survey of the artist’s shocking paintings

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Francis Bacon: Man and Beast at the Royal Academy review: astonishingly potent

The first show to focus on the painter since 2008 shows his unsettling understanding of humans as animals

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon – Man and Beast review: Post-Holocaust surrealism that still feels raw and challenging

Co-curated by writer Michael Peppiatt, author of one of the more entertaining Bacon memoirs, this exhibition at the Royal Academy is the first to look at Bacon ‘through the lens of his fascination with animals’

The Guardian - UK

Bacon in Moscow by James Birch review – darkly funny account of art behind the iron curtain

Spats, KGB threats, dodgy Soviet plumbing… a London gallerist’s vivid memoir of organising a Francis Bacon show in the USSR really brings the artist to life

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