From Stanley Baxter to Peter Ustinov, not to mention Cliff Richard and Billy Connolly, so many big names have entertained ...

David Hockney, who died on 11 June, aged 88, was never shy about experimenting with technology. In April 2020, then almost 83, he was interviewed by The Spectator's art critic, Martin Gayford, saying ...

David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was widely considered to have been Britain’s greatest living artist, said The Daily Telegraph. Instantly recognisable, with his bleached-blond hair, round glasses, ...

David Hockney’s death at 88 closes one of the most remarkable careers in modern art. He was admired by critics, loved by the public, and endlessly curious about what painting could still do. Few ...

In 1972, when David Hockney was thirty-four years old, he was a guest on “Desert Island Discs,” the long-running British radio program in which an interviewee is asked to name the handful of musical ...

There was always something wonderfully unfashionable about Hockney even when he was fashionable. Photo: Michael Childers/Corbis via Getty Images There was always something wonderfully unfashionable ...

Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval. Hockney ...

The British have a term for people like David Hockney: national treasure. It’s an informal title reserved for people who achieve success so substantial that their name becomes synonymous with the ...

British artist David Hockney died at age 88 last week, leaving an oasis-shaped void in our collective imagination. In sun-bleached paintings of California swimming pools, psychological portraits, and ...

When David Hockney in the 1960s turned his attention to a photograph of a splash-splattered swimming pool, he did what most of us today, immersed in an endless stream of digital images, do not. He ...

It is no accident that Los Angeles has been most memorably captured by those who hail from places far from the 405. A metropolis of hopeful outsiders, L.A. has been etched indelibly in our minds—and ...

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