How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself NYT - Top Stories By: Jori Finkel 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. © Nathanael Turner for The New York TimesDavid Hockney repainted his own pool — and signed and dated it July 8, 2017, the day before his 80th birthday.
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