* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

Francis Bacon

Bohemian rhapsody

Francis Bacon – Anatomy of an EnigmaMichael Peppiatt Constable, 448pp, £12.99 “Includes confidential new material”, cries this updated edition of Michael Peppiatt’s 1995 biography, just in time for the Tate’s blockbuster...

What?

Excerpt: The first release from Severin Films, Anthony Nield takes a look at their Region 2 disc of What?, arguably the forgotten film in the Polanski oeuvre. Review: What? could lay claim to be the forgotten film in Roman...

Public Art Is Taking Center Stage This Fall With the Hallelujah - Public Art Fest

Making Life Artful... on Broadway WEST HARLEM, NY--(Marketwire - The West Harlem Art Fund will again offer its successful Hallelujah - In 2006, the West Harlem Art Fund placed sculptural works in park settings and digital...

And Another Thing

People who are infuriated by the huge sums paid for stuffed animals in tanks and the adulation heaped on Francis Bacon’s squiggly horrors should grasp that there is no reason or logic in aesthetics. Andy Warhol, no mean...

Francis Bacon painting sells for £14,400

This is the fragment of a Francis Bacon painting that has been sold for an amazing £14,500. The 31in x 10in scrap of mutilated canvas shows what appears to be part of a foot against a black background. The Dublin-born artist...

Art sales: Art blossoms in the desert

Colin Gleadell on the Middle East Unlikely as it may have seemed seven years ago, following the September 11 terrorist attacks, many people in the art world are now asking: is contemporary Middle Eastern art the next big thing?...

Import / Export - Cinema Two 1710, 2020

Dir: Ulrich Seidl 07 Austria 141 mins Subtitled Cast: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann screenings from: Fri 03 - Thu 23 Oct Both confrontational and compassionate, Seidl’s tale of migration and social borders weaves its way through...

Bacon painting could sell for 10m

Bacon painting could sell for €10m Sunday, October 05, 2008 By Dick O’Brien Garech Browne, the aristocratic owner of the Luggala estate in Co Wicklow, could make close to €10 million from the sale of a Francis Bacon painting...

Painter puts pursuits in perspective

Few students are fortunate enough to study and make a career out of something they love. If you're painting and printmaking senior Vianney Paul, you're discovering that this tedious balancing act is no simple feat. From his...

MCASD doffs hat to Davies in exhibit

They are some of Henri Matisse's most famous words. “What I dream of, is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter,” the iconic 20th-century painter wrote in 1908. He then...