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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’

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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.

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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

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

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’

The Guardian - UK

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.

Inverse

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…

The Conversation

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 Independent 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

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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

The Artist’s Studio by James Hall review – lust, crime and creativity

From Bernini to Bacon, the artist’s studio has long been a place of passion and tragedy, offering a unique glimpse into the creative mind

Salon

Did Western philosophy ruin Earth?

Much of western European philosophy, from ancient Greece to the present, has led directly to unspeakable evil

The Guardian - UK

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art

Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Craig’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

With Craig about to return as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion, we take a look through the blond Bond’s action-packed filmography

The Guardian - UK

Lovers’ drunken brawl nearly cost Francis Bacon an eye, diaries reveal

The spat and injury inspired Bacon to paint his violent expressionist canvas Self-Portrait with Injured Eye

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve got a feeling I won’t be on stage again’: Derek Jacobi on age, ego, Igglepiggle and unrequited love

Sixty-five years after his first rave reviews, the star of I, Claudius and Last Tango in Halifax is still drowning in work – and self-doubt. Can a man who won Ian McKellen’s heart really see himself as ‘bland and uninteresting’?

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