Barry Joule, Francis Bacon’s friend and former handyman, has cancelled plans to donate a collection of work by the artist to Tate out of frustration with the museum’s failure to exhibit an earlier ...

LACMA recently installed a $142 million triptych by Francis Bacon in its new David Geffen Galleries. The gift from Elaine ...

In 1985, a 15-year-old Christopher Nolan was on a school trip to London’s Tate Britain when a poster caught his eye. It’s easy to see why. A streaked, shifting face hangs in darkness, its expression ...

"Each case is like a detective novel," says the head of the heritage brigade. "Of the five paintings by Francis Bacon that were stolen, we have already recovered four, and the fifth one will fall too, ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second half of the 20th century, the Irish-born painter’s unstinting bleakness, ravaged flesh and sado-masochistic homoeroticism made him the outrage ...

The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple. Comprised of five essays, Bacon and the Mind: ...