The New York Times

‘His Pictures Rather Put Me Off Meat’: Animal Experts on Francis Bacon

A new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy highlights Francis Bacon’s paintings of animals. We showed them to some specialists in their subject matter. By Alex Marshall LONDON — The painter Francis ...
CultureMap

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents "Francis Bacon: Late Paintings"

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents "Francis Bacon: Late Paintings." Organized by the Centre Pompidou, where it debuted in September 2019, this is the first in-depth museum consideration of ...
Wall Street Journal

Francis Bacon Painted the Human Animal

Francis Bacon spent the first 16 years of his life growing up on a stud farm in Ireland surrounded by horses and dogs. For Bacon, an asthmatic, danger lurked in animal fur, and forever after the ...
The Conversation

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

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 ...