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...surprised as Dedousis was about being selected to compete, his friend Peter G. Bacon ’11 said that he was “not at all” shocked...
...Anthony is incredibly bright…as soon as he told me he was trying out for Jeopardy, I could see him on the show,” Bacon said...
...swine flu were really serious about being viral, it would find a way to transmit through Facebook, Twitter or Myspace. But being that it's not a sentient being and has actually done some serious harm (death, panic, a drop in bacon sales), maybe a more appropriate way to joke about the topic is via an online game that has spread across the Internet with pandemic-like speed over the past few days...
Oddly, the steel-tube furnishings that Bacon favored as an interior designer in the '30s also found their way years later--in ghostly outline, stripped of any associations with fashion or taste--into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his pictures. You detect them for the first time in his series of paintings from the 1950s that were drawn from the great Velzquez portrait of Pope Innocent X. Flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury. Why a Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for visual and psychological...
That picture of the Holy Father might also bear traces of Bacon's anguished dealings with his own father, who had rejected his girlish son. But it's a mistake to read Bacon's work too quickly by way of his life. That's true even of the ferocious triptychs he made after the suicide of his lover George Dyer, a onetime London hood who killed himself in their hotel room on the eve of Bacon's first big retrospective, in Paris in 1971. In those pictures Bacon didn't simply unload his grief. He used it to find...