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  • Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1967 by Francis Bacon
© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

    Francis Bacon: Human Presence review – ‘This whirligig of horrors is the best Bacon show I’ve ever seen’

    The hard-living artist’s distorted figures – deformed to reveal mortality, sex and death – often left their subjects feeling injured. But this biting show should leave crowds astonished
  • Denzil Forrester, pictured with Lisa Nandy, standing by his painting depicting a dub-reggae dancehall in Cornwall.

    Lisa Nandy vows to move national art collection ‘into communities’

    Government collection can inspire new artists, says culture secretary at Robson Orr TenTen award announcement
  • Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.

    Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, Rembrandt’s triangle and real art’s appeal

    Letters: Dr Keith Snell on Rembrandt’s painterly device and Geoff Ribbens on how society and culture frame our perceptions
    • Heath Ledger’s Joker was based on a Francis Bacon painting, says Christopher Nolan

    • Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum

    • Haegue Yang review – a must-see show if the slats of venetian blinds make you cry

  • Visitors at last year’s Frieze

    Outside Frieze’s big tent, the London art world faces severe headwinds

    Galleries have closed and auction sales are down as Brexit boosts European events such as Art Basel Paris
  • Sunflowers field near Arles in Provence, France<br>M5XF0H Sunflowers field near Arles in Provence, France

    Vincent van Gogh’s Arles: visiting the pretty Provençal city that inspired his greatest masterpieces

  • A canvas with stuffed animals, rag dolls and knitted blankets accompanied by a table of multicoloured phallic-shaped candles.

    Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit review – arrested development

  • Standing Figure: Knife Edge, 1961. In Athens, with the Acropolis in the background.

    ‘He saw how architecture and sculpture could coexist’: why Greece fell in love with Henry Moore

  • Abel Rodríguez (Mogaje Guihu), Terraza Alta II, 2018. Picture credit: Courtesy Abel Rodríguez (Mogaje Guihu) and Instituto de Visión / Photo: María Paula Bastidas (page 147) Ink on paper, 70 × 100 cm / 271/2 × 393/4 in, Private collection

    Evergreen art: depictions of trees over the centuries – in pictures

  • Oil painting from 1920, Mrs Dalloway’s Party by Vanessa Bell, with a woman in a low-cut gown holding a drink and standing in front of other people talking at a party

    Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

  • Plates from the Famous Women Dinner Service (clockwise from top left): Murasaki, Greta Garbo, Virginia Woolf, Theodora, Pocahontas and the Queen of Sheba.

    ‘A great work of feminist art’: how the Bloomsbury group’s Famous Women Dinner Service got a place at the table

  • ‘There is a sense of safety here’: the artists keeping culture alive in Kharkiv

  • Smart shot
    ‘It makes me feel light, happy and free’: Justin Attah Mensah’s best phone picture

  • The Q&A
    Marina Abramović: ‘Describe myself? Long hair, big nose, large ass’

  • Going out, staying in
    From Joker: Folie à Deux to Francis Bacon: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  • McLachlan Artwork Images

    Ed McLachlan obituary

    Cartoonist whose work appeared in Punch, Private Eye, the Spectator and the Oldie in a 60-year career
  • Marina Pribaz’s entry, inspired by a fairytale party – and completely functional as a teapot too.

    Sydney Teapot Show 2024: fantastic spouts and whimsical handles – in pictures

    With more than three decades of history, this year’s exhibition at Gallery Lowe & Lee features over 140 wildly imaginative takes on the tea set – including a duck, parrot and pineapple
  • Corpo Coletivo (Collective Body), 1970, by Lygia Clark.

    Lygia Clark and Sonia Boyce review – pull on a bodysuit and play!

    Clark’s excellently unmuseumlike exhibition invites you to handle sculptures, wear eye-magnifying goggles and tactile suits, while Boyce extends the taboo-breaking theme with touchable dreadlocks
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