News
Oregon Brings Home the Bacon (Triptych)
Everyone's favorite triptych will be taking a trip to Portland, Oregon, the New York Times has reported.
Lucian Freud
Books
The Harshly Lit Darkness of Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud, as presented in the gossipy new biography, Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Grieg, lived for 88 years entirely guilt-free, which is a remarkable bit of pathology in itself, but especially so for the grandson of the man who tagged guilt as the glue holding civilization together.
Francis Bacon
How to Talk About Art: Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud Edition (#H2TAA)
As Christie’s preps to sell off Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" for a possible record price of $100 million, it may be a good time to bone up on your talking points for both of these canonized artists.
Art
Lucian Freud’s Wrong Turn
I recall the 1993-1994 Lucian Freud retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as possibly the dreariest exhibition I’d ever seen there.
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Painter Lucian Freud Dies at 88
Renowned portraitist and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud died yesterday.
Opinion
Five Awesome Artist Studios
Until an artist version of Cribs is invented, the best way we can get inside an artist's life and work is to get inside their studios. Photographs of artists in their studios are kind of like snapshots of an artistic career, a whole body of work compressed into a single room. A working and living sp