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Mohammed Shakil, 32, and Waheed Ali, 25, were sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to attend a terrorist training camp but were cleared of conspiracy to cause the deadly July 2005 London bombings...
...despair what Michelangelo did for faith. He made it majestic. That's the conclusion you can't help taking away from the Bacon retrospective that opened May 20 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. I caught the show last year at its first venue, London's Tate Britain, and left it convinced that it was one of the most powerful exhibitions I'd seen in more than 40 years of museumgoing...
...exhibition, which runs through Aug. 16, marks the centenary of Bacon's birth in 1909 in Dublin. His father, a truculent British army officer turned horse trainer, shuttled the family for years between Ireland and England. But by the age of 16, Bacon was in London, and living on his own with a small allowance from his mother and the assistance of various older men. Eventually he drifted into a career as an interior decorator while trying to find his way as a painter. But it wasn't until the 1940s that he arrived at the vocabulary of tortured forms...
...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 his way to the even bleaker abbreviations of a pitiless world he produced...
...style. From France and Italy it spread to the rest of Europe and beyond. Sculptors, designers and painters of the day took the art of Greece and Rome and made it their own: bigger, better and more vulgar. "Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence," at London's Victoria & Albert Museum until July 19, seeks to unravel Baroque's complexities while celebrating its influence across the globe. The show captures the opulence of the era by presenting key decorative objects - from silver furniture to theater costumes - alongside images of cathedrals, and reconstructions of performances and modern-day religious...