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Our own Morgan Meis in The Smart Set: Driving through the hills of northern San Diego County in the evening is lonely. The sun sets due west over the Pacific Ocean, red sinking into blue. There's the scrub brush and...
Arts of Innovation blog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
Conceptual innovator David Hockney won fame as an artist at age 26, then achieved new success in his 60s by plunging into art history. As such, he’s a prime example of a conceptual innovator achieving renewal through a change of focus. For economist David Galenson, Hockney is “a wonderful example of a young genius conceptual artist,” [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
David Hockney is over 70 years old, and very angry. With the passing of the years, the Sixties working-class wonder boy has metamorphosed into a very cross pensioner. That he is Britain's greatest living artist might be disputed by Lucian Freud devotees and others, but surely he, and no one else, holds the title of Britain's Grumpiest Artist.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
Does starring in a famous work of art raise the value of a home? Jonny Beardsall asks the experts and the seller.
Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
David Hockney has given the Tate his largest painting (he has painted some big ones) to date. "Bigger Trees near Warter" is about 40 feet by 15 feet or 5 meters by 12 meters and is made up of 50 panels. Also, I'm told that "Warter" is an actual place, so it's not a misspelling of "water" like I thought it was. Hockney said "I thought if I'm going to give something to the Tate I want to give them something...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
David Hockney may leave a large number of his works to public collections on his death, he has revealed, as he announced the gift of the largest picture he has ever painted to the Tate galleries.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
David Hockney has given a whacking great picture to the Tate. At 14ft by 40ft it would not fit above most mantelpieces. Let us hope that Bigger Trees, as the work is called, fares better than big canvasses by painters thought fine in their own day.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
David Hockney called on Britain’s most celebrated artists yesterday to donate works to the Tate, as it emerged that fewer than half had fulfilled a promise to do so.
The End of Cyberspace (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
Painter David Hockney-- who has in the last few years made some very interesting speculations about the history of art-- has a piece on the Guardian about "Pictures and Power:" Michael Curtis, one of the founders of Hollywood and director...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008
David Hockney: Whoever controls images has great social influence. Did the camera damage the church's popularity?
The First Post (Free subscription) | 24/03/2008
David Hockney is giving the largest painting he's ever created to the nation. Entitled Bigger Trees Near Warter, the 40ft by 15ft work - made up of 50 separate canvases…
Times Online (Free subscription) | 22/03/2008
David Hockney is to give his largest painting to the nation to fulfil what he regards as his patriotic duty.
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 23/01/2008
David Hockney in East Yorkshire, 2006 / RICHARD LACAYO I caught up with David Hockney recently by phone from Los Angeles, where he was supervising the re-installation of his 1987 sets for the LA Opera production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde . Hockney still keeps a home in L.A., but spends most of his time lately in Bridlington, a coastal town in East Yorkshire close to where he grew up, and where...
LAist (Free subscription) | 14/01/2008
You probably relate David Hockney's name with his famous California photograph called " Peach Blossom Highway #2 ." But one of the contemporary artist's early loves was opera and he's back, for the third time ever with Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" with the LA Opera , a "great ode to sexual ecstasy," the production company writes in the tag line of the title. It's a five-hour piece, but you can guarantee...
The UK SF Book News Network (Free subscription) | 28/11/2007
Detail: A Hayward Gallery touring exhibition of artwork by British-born artist David Hockney inspired by the Grimm Brothers' famous fairy tales, will be showing at the Turnpike Gallery in Wigan between December 1st and January 5th. According to a press release from Wigan Council: "Hockney applies his unique interpretation skills to six fairytales including the familiar [...]
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Hockneys Mad
and thank goodness he is, this Maria Eagle woman is a certifiable loon, where have we gone wrong.
Professor Sapient - (not a member) - 07/06/2008