Francis Bacon: Couplings Kunsthalle Basel In an interview with Brooklyn

In an interview with Brooklyn Rail publisher and artistic director Phong Bui

frenetic lines that recall Asian calligraphic characters and pre-Columbian hieroglyphs

Takashi Murakami’s New Day initiative began as an open call for visual responses to the disaster

On one side the pillow shows an “awake” face adorned with a wide smile and open eyes

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects at Gagosian

Francis Bacon: Couplings Kunsthalle Basel In an interview with BrooklynThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Bacon: Couplings at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. It highlights a theme that preoccupied Bacon throughout his career: the relationshipboth physical and psychologicalbetween two people. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these interrelated works, Bacon did not return to