Malika Browne talks to James Birch about Francis Bacon's exhibition at the Union of Artists in Moscow in 1988, the first by a foreign artist in the USSR since 1917. Why did Francis Bacon agree to it? How hard was it to organise a Western art show in the USSR in 1988? Find out by listening!

Further reading:

Bacon in Moscow by James Birch, Cheerio 2022

With Gilbert and George in Moscow by Dan Farson, Bloomsbury 1991

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