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How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself

13 June 2026 at 18:26
A Brit, he became a symbol of the city’s culture, stylish and alienating, with his vivid swimming pool paintings and embrace of SoCal light, hedonism and gay liberation.

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David Hockney repainted his own pool — and signed and dated it July 8, 2017, the day before his 80th birthday.

David Hockney and the Bliss of Not Standing Still

13 June 2026 at 10:00
“As important as the boys and the pools and the light,” a memoirist writes, “the most important thing was becoming the driving.” It would inspire an obsession with moving focus into the future.

David Hockney, una salpicadura demasiado grande

13 June 2026 at 04:30

El gran pintor David Hockney —fallecido este jueves— debió de sentir la misma sorpresa, ambivalencia casi, que nos invaden a los europeos al llegar a LAX, el aeropuerto de Los Ángeles. Hockney llegaba muy pronto además, a mitad de la década de los sesenta. Llegaba a una ciudad contradictoria y fascinante —la que sigue siendo— que fluctuaba entre Hollywood y su paseo de la fama y las protesta de UCLA, una universidad muy activa políticamente en aquellos años, como ahora, a la cual estuvo muy vinculado.

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David Hockney posa delante de la obra 'Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)', en el Met de Nueva York, en 2017.

Remembering revolutionary painter David Hockney and his artistic legacy

British artist and painter David Hockney, one of the most celebrated art icons of the 20th and 21st centuries, died at the age of 88. Jeffrey Brown has a look at his life and legacy.

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