“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.

Whether in Los Angeles, in his native England or traveling the world, the artist always reinvented the world he saw, with psychological insight.

The painter David Hockney’s clothes roared with mirth and maximalism.

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His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.

The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.

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Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.

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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.

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