The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
How wise is it for a brand new art centre in a major provincial city to open its doors with a show by David Hockney? Isn't the Hockney story – and aren't Hockney's works in general – just too well-known to deserve yet another outing?
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
DAVID HOCKNEY’S famous painting, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, went on display at the Walker Art Gallery yesterday.
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
"We're all being choked to death by the State fumes Hockney" was the headline to an article about the artist and an exhibition of his early work in yesterday's Times. In the article Hockney goes to town on the government slamming politicians for intruding into his life, he says: I don't want to live my life dictated to by doctors, we're being treated like children...There are 3000 new laws,...
ian gordon craig (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Nottingham Contemporary has put a little slice of London standard art gallery on my Nottingham doorstep. This morning, more than a little excited, I went to view the David Hockney exhibition which marks the opening of the venue, and focuses on his work from 1960 - 1968. Although I’ve seen paintings like “ A Bigger Splash ” and “ Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool ”...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
NOTTINGHAM, UK - A major exhibition of over 60 works by David Hockney from national and international museum collections will open Nottingham Contemporary, one of the most interesting new spaces for art in the UK. Designed by leading architects Caruso St John, the public opening is on Saturday 14 November 2009. The exhibition will re-examine Hockney's work 1960-1968, his early years in London and...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
This exhibition is a selection of 50 of these, borrowed principally from the Tate and British Council collections but with a few international loans and one work never exhibited before (it came from a private collector who, hearing of the forthcoming show, rang up and offered his picture). Together they present a portrait of an artist struggling in the face of the fashion for abstraction, to make figurative...
Splat! (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Here is an interesting article on British artist David Hockney. The front pages promotes Hockney as “Britain’s Greatest Living Artist”.…
Lloyd Austins (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
David Hockney: portrait of the old master http://bit.ly/4zUoBo
Relevant History (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
He's mainly into painting and the iPhone these days, but David Hockney took time to do a Polariod collage of my daughter at Cafe Barrone this morning: (via Hockeyizer) [To the tune of Sophie B. Hawkins, "Nocturne," from the album...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
David Hockney with Bigger Trees Near Warter. Photograph: David Levene David Hockney is no fool. He understands art history – he has, after all, written books about it. For almost half a century he has succeeded in maintaining a place in the world of art, however unfashionable or odd the directions he happened to be taking. [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
NEW YORK and BERLIN, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- artnet Auctions is now featuring the Modern + Contemporary Sale, an online auction featuring 70 artworks by 50 artists representing some of the most important artistic movemen...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
NEW YORK and BERLIN, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- artnet Auctions is now featuring the Modern + Contemporary Sale, an online auction featuring 70 artworks by 50 artists representing some of the most important artistic movements from the 20th century to the present.
The Devil Reads Poetry (but not the sort you'd think) (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Vulture (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
David Hockney is better known as a portrait painter, but moving in 2005 from Hollywood back to his childhood town of East Yorkshire, in England, inspired him to create these poppy landscape paintings. He spent much of the past year sitting in a field with an easel, quickly painting the lush scenes before him, and then attaching, in some cases, up to fifteen canvases together for works as wide as 27...
Lemmingworks (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
David Hockney’s iPhone Passion is a neat article. I read it and downloaded the Brushes. I love painting on the computer… though suckage results, but I thought I’d try it out. Will post one here in a moment.
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