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Buggers review – phenomenal flesh and blood portrait of Francis Bacon and George Dyer

The painter and his lover are played with real intensity by Alistair Hall and Peter Clements, in a visceral psychodrama of contained violence and sadness

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WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge wanted to ‘bid farewell’ to writing at 22, letter reveals

Young poet details low mood and disappointment in love in 1795 letter, written not long before he met Wordsworth

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Kiwi flavour, Wallabies hopes in 36-year rugby first

A host of Wallabies hopefuls have been added to the final 30-man, trans-Tasman squad to tackle the Lions in Adelaide.

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Francis Bacon: Human Presence – a compelling look at how the artist redefined portraiture

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the National Portrait Gallery demonstrates.

The Conversation

Francis Bacon: Human Presence; Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound – review

Likeness is almost beside the point as Bacon’s wild originality transcends simple portraiture. At the Turbine Hall, Mire Lee’s floating ‘skins’ are a one-hit spectacle

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst

Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career lows to prove that his brutally frank portraiture can still take the breath away

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Francis Bacon at the NPG review: a gut punch of a show that's oddly uplifting despite all the darkness

Each canvas is full of feeling, soaked in volatile emotion

Evening Standard

Francis Bacon: Human Presence review – ‘This whirligig of horrors is the best Bacon show I’ve ever seen’

The hard-living artist’s distorted figures – deformed to reveal mortality, sex and death – often left their subjects feeling injured. But this biting show should leave crowds astonished

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon portrait of lover George Dyer to go on sale

Artist chose study to appear in first big retrospective in 1971. Dyer was found dead in couple’s hotel room 36 hours before show’s opening

The Guardian - UK

10 Times A Major Celebrity Appeared Fully Nude In A Movie And Why It Worked

From R-rated comedies to award-winning dramas, here's our list of 10 actors who were fully nude in a movie and why it worked.

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Daniel Craig’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

With Craig about to return as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion, we take a look through the blond Bond’s action-packed filmography

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Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed

From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernesss

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Other lives: Tailor whose Threadneedle Man shop in south London attracted an appreciative celebrity clientele

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