Bacon bites

Tate Britain's Francis Bacon show has a family programme, which gives children the opportunity to 're-enact the lying, crawling, bending, standing, turning and falling figures' seen in Bacon's paintings - but for some reason it leaves out the buggering, evisceration and paraplegia. Bacon always sought to attract attention, to which the world's response included some remarkable interviews by David Sylvester, a foolishly credulous book by Giles Deleuze and a prim put-down by Margaret Thatcher. He made works of genius, but also a lot of very silly caricature - this excellent show should help us decide which is which.

Neal Brown