Francis Bacon's loyal 'Miss B'

Even for an arts world where the unusual is quotidian, the decision by the painter Francis Bacon was remarkable. After his death in 1992 at the age of 82, his will left most of his £11m fortune to a former Cockney barman and gay model, John Edwards, then aged just 41.

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Graham Sutherland Crane Kalman Gallery, London SW3

He always denied their existence. But do the drawings really dispel the myth of his paintings' spontaneity?

DESPITE THE neat packaging, which unites the twin peaks of PiL's career - the seminal new-wave industrial-dub epic Metal Box and the solid, generic Album - there's something about the band that remains fundamentally ill- suited to the retrospective box format. It's the antithesis of the rebellious spirit they once personified. In the way it smoothes the group's spiky iconoclasm with historical pomposity, it's like a turkey voting for Christmas.

Sir: The only wholly accurate statement about GM foods was made by Francis Bacon about 400 years ago: "Those counsels to which Time hath not been called, Time will not ratify." Such was the case with asbestos, DDT, Thalidomide, umpteen poisonous agricultural chemicals, animal offal in cattle feed, BSE and so on. The public obviously share Bacon's common- sense view.

Going out

Francis Bacon's sado-masochistic love affair

Aberdeen Art Gallery (left), unlikely as it may seem to the London- centric South, has one of the best collections of 20th-century British art in the country. This is due to the happy combination of well-structured bequests and brilliant curators who have consistently bought the best work new, when prices were still within their reach. They bought Augustus John in the 1920s, Wood and Wadsworth in the 1930s, Ravilious and Sutherland in the 1940s, and a Francis Bacon as early as 1956. It's a terrific collection, of which the city should be extremely proud, but the powers that be have recently cut the gallery's purchase grant by 97 per cent, effectively crippling any further development. So much for living in enlightened times.

Atom Egoyan and John Maybury, ICA, London SW1 (0171-930 3647) 7.30pm