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Low Culture Podcast Six: Nadine Shah On Robert Palmer

The sixth in our series of subscriber-only podcasts features Nadine Shah talking about how Robert Palmer's 1994 album Honey helped through her Mum's illness and, as unlikely as it sounds, how it has influenced her music
Art

Portrait Of The Artist: Yves Peyré Remembers Francis Bacon

In an exclusive extract from his monumental new book *Francis Bacon, or The Measure of Excess* for ACC Art Books, the French author Yves Peyré recalls long afternoons on the Rive Gauche in the company of the great British painter
Books

We Have Also Sound Houses: How A 17th C. Utopia Foresaw Electronic Music

The English statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote his utopian tale New Atlantis at the very end of his life in the early 17th century. Three centuries later it was heralded by Daphne Oram and others as a prophecy of modern electronic music. In an exclusive extract from his introduction to a new edition of the book for Repeater Books, tQ's books ed Robert Barry explains why
Art

A Thousand Words: Artists, Critics, & Curators Choose Books On Art

Artists, critics and curators talk about the art books that sustain and inspire them
A Quietus Interview

Blitz Kid: Etienne Daho Interviewed

Etienne Daho is the French pop star who loves life in London town. He speaks to David McKenna about Soho nights and South Kensington days
Art

The London Scene: Recalling 60s Soho With Bacon, Freud, & Kossoff

Richard Assheton takes a stroll through the Soho of the 60s in time for a new book from Thames & Hudson and an exhibition at Ordovas, both devoted to the art scene around Bacon, Freud, Riley et al
Art

Colouring Out: Queer British Art At The Tate

Exploring Tate Britain's survey of Queer British Art from 1861 to 1967
Art

Elementary My Dear: Michael Andrews At Gagosian

From debauched scenes with Bacon and Freud to the gritty earth of the Thames Estuary, the paintings of Michael Andrews have a creeping sense of the uncanny
Art

Double Portraits: Sebastian Smee On The Art Of Rivalry

From the story of Degas‘s portrait of Manet to Freud's struggle with Bacon, Sebastian Smee talks to Craft/Work about the productive history of artistic rivalries

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