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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.

With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech

12 June 2026 at 11:19
Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.

© David Hockney; Photo credit: Richard Schmidt

“Mulholland Drive, June 1986,” a homemade print from a photocopier.

David Hockney, revolutionary British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88

Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sunkissed visions of California and never stopped breaking barriers, going on to become one of contemporary art’s most important figures, has died
‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’
David Hockney’s life in pictures

David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88.

He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies.

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© Photograph: Aurélien Meunier/Getty Images

© Photograph: Aurélien Meunier/Getty Images

© Photograph: Aurélien Meunier/Getty Images

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