He won medals at the Royal Academy, killed his father in 1843 and painted for forty-two years in Bethlem and Broadmoor. The first Dadd retrospective in fifty years, the painting Freddie Mercury named a song after, and where his pictures live in London once the show closes.

Francis Bacon: Man and Beast ran at the Royal Academy from 29 January to 17 April 2022. A record of the paintings, the sources behind them and where to see Bacon in London.

Did you know there’s a free public outdoor exhibition across Piccadilly this summer? The Royal Academy of Arts has teamed up with Art of London to spark Londoners’ imagination by transforming the area surrounding Picadilly Circus into a huge pop-up exhibition space. Passers-by are invited to discover 13 zebra crossings, 30 colourful floating canvases, and even a 780-metre film, all created by some of the UK’s most original and inspiring artists working today, exclusively pick