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David Hockney and the Bliss of Not Standing Still
“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.
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Framing David Hockney’s Greatest Art
Whether in Los Angeles, in his native England or traveling the world, the artist always reinvented the world he saw, with psychological insight.
David Hockney’s Sense of Style Never Wavered
The painter David Hockney’s clothes roared with mirth and maximalism.
Color, so integral to David Hockney’s paintings, was part of his outfits as well.
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David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.
What I Learned From David Hockney
The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.
Journalists looking at David Hockney’s work before the opening of the exhibition “David Hockney 25” at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris in April 2025.
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With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech
Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.
“Mulholland Drive, June 1986,” a homemade print from a photocopier.
© David Hockney; Photo credit: Richard Schmidt
Vance Blames Migrant ‘Invasion’ for UK Stabbing
British officials accused Vice President JD Vance of trying to “stir up division” in his comments on the murder of Henry Nowak, whose killer was sentenced to life in prison last week.
Tributes for Henry Nowak outside the Portswood Police Station in Southampton, southern England, last week.
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