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Mark Rylance on royalty, method acting and the Iraq war: ‘I’ve talked with the King about who wrote Shakespeare’s plays’

The generational stage actor speaks to Chris Harvey about Timothée Chalamet, his ‘failure’ at the Globe, and his new play ‘Dr Semmelweis’

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Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition

You can’t move for masterpieces – most of them owned by the Taiwanese collector Pierre Chen – but this supposed journey through painting and photography is rambling and at times comically simplistic

The Guardian - UK

Picasso, Warhol and Hockney artworks to be on display at new Tate Modern exhibit

The new display, titled Capturing the Moment, opens to the public on Tuesday June 13.

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Capturing the Moment: a Journey Through Painting and Photography at Tate Modern - all killer, no filler

Sure, the substance of this show is a little lightweight, but with banger after banger it’s totally forgiveable

Evening Standard

How You Can Own a Francis Bacon Painting for Only $100

$100 for a piece of Francis Bacon’s $55 million painting? That’s the kind of opportunity investors will have when “Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer” IPOs in July.

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‘Astonishing, luminous beauty’: readers’ cultural highlights in Europe

The secrets to ancient Greek innovations, art in its rightful place, and gorgeous statues and views from Dublin to Albania

The Guardian - UK

Roald Dahl threatened publisher with ‘enormous crocodile’ if they changed his words

Conversation with Francis Bacon emerges amid the row over updating controversial language in the children’s author’s books

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The Artist’s Studio by James Hall review – lust, crime and creativity

From Bernini to Bacon, the artist’s studio has long been a place of passion and tragedy, offering a unique glimpse into the creative mind

The Guardian - UK

Did Western philosophy ruin Earth?

Much of western European philosophy, from ancient Greece to the present, has led directly to unspeakable evil

Salon

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art

Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Lovers’ drunken brawl nearly cost Francis Bacon an eye, diaries reveal

The spat and injury inspired Bacon to paint his violent expressionist canvas Self-Portrait with Injured Eye

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve got a feeling I won’t be on stage again’: Derek Jacobi on age, ego, Igglepiggle and unrequited love

Sixty-five years after his first rave reviews, the star of I, Claudius and Last Tango in Halifax is still drowning in work – and self-doubt. Can a man who won Ian McKellen’s heart really see himself as ‘bland and uninteresting’?

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon triptych sells for record £24.3m at auction in London

Artwork had been on show at New York museum since death of media tycoon owner in 1990

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The Independent UK

Francis Bacon triptych sells for £24.3m at auction

Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes was sold on Friday.

The Guardian - UK

Rock snapper Kevin Cummins: ‘I still leave space for the NME logo in the corner’

The man who created more than 250 cover images for the rock weekly has put together a book of almost 40 years of photographs of the Fall. ‘We put Manchester on the map,’ he says

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon triptych could sell for more than £30m at auction debut

The work is being previewed at Sotheby’s in London.

The Guardian - UK

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag review – memory maps and rumours of djinns from mystical Sudanese painter

Inspired by William Blake and Francis Bacon, Ishag traces winding webs of families and friendships with depictions of plants, neighbourhoods and – her main subject – women

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The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

HellSans by Ever Dundas; Leech by Hiron Ennes; Jackdaw by Tade Thompson; The Green Man of Eshwood Hall by Jacob Kerr; and The Black Maybe by Attila Veres

The Independent UK

David Hockney painting pictured ahead of first public sale in more than 30 years

The piece could sell for as much as £10 million.

The Guardian - UK

Love Lucian by David Dawson and Martin Gayford review

Lucian Freud’s letters reveal the artist in all his rambunctious, irreverent and amusing glory

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

September design news: Francis Bacon and fry-up chic

Green graduates set to save the future, turning scraps into kitchen knives and new art from director Mark Cousins

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Claes Bang’s cultural highlights

The Danish actor on a horror film from his homeland, the physical impact of Francis Bacon and his favourite London restaurant

The Guardian - UK

‘A class of his own’: Sale of rare Bacon works marks 30th anniversary of artist’s death

The auction will include rarely seen paintings, a rug, photographs and letters

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