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Art world gavel-to-gavel: Spring auctions kick off in New York despite market setbacks, cyberattacks

With sales of $14.9 billion last year, the art market saw a 14 percent drop compared to 2022

Latin Times

New York Gears Up For Major Spring Auctions After Soft 2023

New York's major auction houses were preparing for the start of their all-important Spring sales on Monday even as Christie's came under a cyberattack that affected its website.

International Business Times

Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiatt review – glimpses of a demon-driven genius

Despite the painter’s lack of ‘epistolary fluency’, this collection of his writings – from drunken interviews to begging letters – offers some insight into his working methods and private life

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May Contain Lies by Alex Edmans review – fake news rules… and that’s a fact

In our age of misinformation, this unsparing study of the many ways in which we can be deceived and how to counter the pernicious effects couldn’t be more timely

The Guardian - UK

‘All of them were drunk’: Iain Sinclair on Freud, Bacon and the postwar Soho arts scene

The author on his new book about photographer John Deakin, being at ease in his 80s – and walking amid London’s fast-moving phone zombies

The Guardian - UK

34 Facts That Might Teach Quite A Lot Of People Something New

People online shared some facts that they think not many people know about. The post 34 Facts That Might Teach Quite A Lot Of People Something New first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Marlborough Gallery: ‘blue chip’ art institution to close after nearly 80 years

Locations in London, New York, Barcelona and Madrid to be shut ‘after long and careful consideration’

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Francis Bacon portrait of lover George Dyer to go on sale

Artist chose study to appear in first big retrospective in 1971. Dyer was found dead in couple’s hotel room 36 hours before show’s opening

The Guardian - UK

10 Most Expensive Paintings: Brushstrokes Of Value

In the world of contemporary art, a handful of paintings have attained legendary status through their staggering prices at auction. These masterpieces, spanning various eras and styles, epitomize artistic excellence and the vision of renowned creators.

International Business Times

10 Times A Major Celebrity Appeared Fully Nude In A Movie And Why It Worked

From R-rated comedies to award-winning dramas, here's our list of 10 actors who were fully nude in a movie and why it worked.

Cinemablend

Exhibition revives work of anti-careerist British artist Neil Stokoe

Art school contemporary of David Hockney shunned self-promotion but is now subject of retrospective

The Guardian - UK

The best art and architecture shows to visit in 2024

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

The Guardian - UK

The Colony Club Room: All hail the return of London's drunkest drinking den

The Colony Room was a club for the rich, famous and often the ruined. Charlotte Lytton raises a toast as it opens once again

Evening Standard

‘Delicate, dangerous, anarchic’: Daniel Craig, Michael Mann, Matthew Macfadyen and more remember Michael Gambon

He wasn’t just a magnificent actor – he was also a raconteur, mentor, joker, engineer and pilot. Friends including Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton, Simon Callow, Nicholas Hytner, Matthew Warchus and Rupert Goold pay tribute to the star

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Passing on great wealth to our children spells the end of society. Just ask Aristotle

If, as speculated, the PM scraps inheritance tax, the stench of money will just grow stronger

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians

Corruption agency hopes portal will ‘make it difficult for Russian oligarchs to sell such assets’

Inverse

300 Years Before the Industrial Revolution, the UK’s Wildlife Looked Strikingly Different

In the early modern period, wolves, beavers, and probably some lynxes still survived in regions of Scotland and Ireland.

The Conversation

Wildlife wonders of Britain and Ireland before the industrial revolution – my research reveals all the biodiversity we've lost

Travel back with me a few hundred years to before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: while there are now less than ten left in Britain’s only permanent (and non-breeding) resident population, around 250 years ago the English cleric and…

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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’

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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.

Evening Standard

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

Barchart

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.

The Guardian - UK

‘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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