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It’s not over until the bald lady sings, and in this case Ireland’s brilliant vocalist Sinéad O’Connor is not retiring from the limelight quietly. As her swan song, she is releasing her final record
She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty on September 9 on Vanguard Records. The two-CD release features 19 studio tracks on Disc one and Disc two is a live album with 13 tracks recorded from one of her concerts in Dublin last year. The package offers plenty of material to satiate fans before O’Connor ducks out of the music industry for some peace and quiet.
John Minihan on Francis Bacon: Champagne and paint splatters in Soho John Minihan
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The Francis Bacon I knew had a reserve in him. He also had that Irish love for gambling and drinking and a perpetual desire to be somewhere else
Francis Bacon was a man whom I both knew and did not know. There was a reserve in him that discouraged familiarity, and he was happier in the company of photographers, terrified of writers and biographers, and he had more reason than most.
Born in Dublin in 1909, certainly Irish by birth, if not by blood, he had the Irish love for gambling, drinking and perpetual desire to be somewhere else. I first met Bacon outside Marlborough Magistrates Court in London in 1971. The Daily Telegraph published a story, Irish Artist on Drugs Charge. He was acquitted. In his defence, he told the magistrate that he could not have smoked the can
Cambodianess.
I’m sure that the artist may have had good intentions, but this really was boneheaded in the extreme by him and by Vice in publishing the photos.
The Cambodians have actually done a pretty good job (as well as you can) in memorializing Tuol Sleng without overdoing or over-commercializing or politicizing it. Its one of the most moving places I’ve ever visited (although it was many years ago, it might have changed more recently). We should be learning lessons from them, not using them for virtue waving or self promotion, or whatever it was that motivated the artist.
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