There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits ... Mostly, though, Bacon made them resemble murder victims, or cartoon characters squished by a 10-ton anvil.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery ...

“I have always been very moved by pictures about slaughterhouses and meat,” the painter Francis Bacon said to an interviewer in 1962. He regarded meat with fellow-feeling. “If I go into a ...