"Did Freud come to tower in contemporary art, or did the ground around him sink?," ask the New Yorker.

Umberto Giordano's "André Chénier," will be performed on a floating stage in Austria recreating David's masterpiece,  "Death of Marat".

Sue Tilley, dubbed "Big Sue" after Freud's portrait of her called "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" remembers her artist.