Francis Bacon (1561–1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on ...

Francis Thomas Bacon invented the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell a clean, high-efficiency power source that helped propel Apollo ...

Francis Bacon's New Organon ... together with an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets the work in the context of Bacon's scientific and philosophical activities. Plan of the work The second part of ...

Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and ...

No one summarised the gilded gutter life of Francis Bacon better than the man himself. ‘I might live in squalor, but I don’t see why I should drink filth,’ said the artist, who fuelled ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said ...

In a somewhat spooky coincidence, a new Francis Bacon exhibition ... always just enough humanity left for us to grasp on to. Bacon’s work has always had a close relationship to cinema.

Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery has the perfect subject in its stirring, splendid new show Francis Bacon: Human Presence.

First of two parts AFTER the announcement of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, I remain bothered ...

Francis Bacon’s distorted ... Taking you from Bacon’s early portraits in the 1940s, through self-portraits and portraits of friends in the 1950s, to the personal relationships that defined his work in ...

Gagosian is presenting The Street, an exhibition conceived and curated by the artist Peter Doig, opening November 1 at 980 Madison Avenue, New York. Read our pick of the best New York art exhibitions ...