One-Minute Read
Thu 15 Nov, AT 12:02
Sotheby's New York takes record $375m in a day as 'Teflon-coated' art market proves its resilience again
First Reaction
Tue 7 Aug, AT 11:04
Shock of the New brought Hughes a mass audience, but he felt like piano player in a whorehouse
News
Wed 20 Jan, AT 09:08
Self-Portrait with a Black Eye
goes on sale 32 years after
fight with London taxi driver
Tate Britain's Francis Bacon show has a family programme, which gives children the opportunity to 're-enact the lying, crawling, bending, standing, turning and falling figures' seen in Bacon's paintings - but for some reason it leaves out the buggering, evisceration and paraplegia. Bacon always sought to attract attention, to which the world's response included some remarkable interviews by David Sylvester, a foolishly credulous book by Giles Deleuze and a prim put-down by Margaret Thatcher.
