The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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- When
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May 20, 2009 – Aug 16, 2009
Tuesdays–Thursdays (9:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays (9:30am–9:30pm)
Saturdays (9:30am–9pm)
Sundays (9:30am–5pm)
- Where
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
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$20
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While the peripatetic, 20th-century artist may only have been the second most famous Francis Bacon to bless English shores, he was truly a rare bird. A savant with the paintbrush, Bacon's biomorphic figures (generally pieces of distorted flesh) appear in anguish, often squared away in cages. His ravishing and subversive triptychs, master "studies," and thematic series (i.e. sinister, half-effaced heads) are part of the Met's exhaustive survey, the first such New York exhibition in two decades. His manifold influences — from Eisenstein to Egyptian art, Titian to the crucifixion — are also presented. If only they'd screen the biographic Love is the Devil (1998), in which Derek Jacobi assumes his notorious persona and Daniel Craig his ill-fated lover, George Dyer.
