Belated monday portrait: Cerith Wyn Evans

Image c/o White Cube

Artist Cerith Wyn Evans' take on the self portrait 'Inverse Reverse Perverse', 1996.

Read more about the installation at White Cube's Duke Street gallery here, the work is now in the Tate Britain collection.

Shakespeare & Memory

Friend and collaborator on our Greater Shakespeare project, Hester Lees-Jeffries continues to enlighten us and give us new ways of understanding Shakespeare in her latest book 'Shakespeare & Memory', published by the Oxford University Press.

Highly recommended by all at Kit Grover. See what the Times has to say here. 

Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969

As Francis Bacon's triptych of Lucien Freud 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969' became the most expensive painting ever bought at auction (£89m), we got to thinking where Freud's fabulous stolen portrait of Bacon might be.

Thirteen years after the theft, Freud circulated the poster below around Berlin and even asked the thief if he would lend the painting for the duration of Freud's 2011 Tate retrospective, but sadly nobody came forward. We wonder what happened to all the posters, whether they were steamed off walls by art-lovers...