Along with her husband the poet Willard Maas, Menken was a founding member of the Gryphon Film Group. A selection of their rarely seen work includes Maas' lyrical film Geography of the Body, filmed by Menken, and Boultenhouse's mythical Dionysus. The scre

Marie Menken's films are fragmentary encounters with friends, landscapes and her urban surroundings. This screening is introduced by Melissa Ragona, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Critical Theory at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and a

Since Francis Bacon died in 1992 his reputation increases in stature and his paintings continue to break auction house records. But what is the state of Bacon scholarship and what do we know of Bacon's practice now?

Since Francis Bacon died in 1992 his reputation increases in stature and his paintings continue to break auction house records. But what is the state of Bacon scholarship and what do we know of Bacon's practice now?

Since Francis Bacon died in 1992 his reputation increases in stature and his paintings continue to break auction house records. But what is the state of Bacon scholarship and what do we know of Bacon's practice now?

Since Francis Bacon died in 1992 his reputation increases in stature and his paintings continue to break auction house records. But what is the state of Bacon scholarship and what do we know of Bacon's practice now?

Coinciding with the publication of the Tate Britain/Yale Center for British Art three volume History of British Art, leading political columnist, writer and broadcaster, Andrew Marr considers what makes art British, and articulates his own responses to wo

Stemming from his recent travels in the Congo Belgian artist Carsten Höller presents a slide lecture in conversation with Gulbenkian Curator of Contemporary Art, Nicolas Bourriaud.

Distinguished artist Maggi Hambling talks on the life and times of Francis Bacon and his importance to contemporary art. Henrietta Moraes, queen of Soho in the 1950s, was both model and muse to Bacon then and to Hambling later. Hambling has said 'when you

Since 1958 the Curwen Studio has enabled artists to explore the medium of lithography. To coincide with the display in the Goodison Room celebrating the Studio's fiftieth anniversary, artist Paula Rego, Studio Co-Founder Stanley Jones and Alan Powers, aut