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How art world is putting changed times in picture

Surveying the global market, Des O’Sullivan says when the going gets tough, the tough get going

Sat, 06 Jun, 2020

Sotheby's to auction Francis Bacon's Oresteia of Aeschylus in New York

Bacon’s 1981 triptych (one of 28 large-format works created between 1962 and 1991) will be offered with an estimate north of $60m (€55m).

Fri, 27 Mar, 2020

Fertile tradition of retelling epic poems of Homer is revived

With these novels, Pat Barker and Michael Hughes revive the long and fertile tradition of retelling Homer’s great epic poems. The Silence of The Girls and Country deliver new and original recitations of ‘The Iliad’ — the final weeks of the Trojan War — in two different but very satisfying and successful ways.

Sat, 03 Nov, 2018