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David Hockney’s 5 Most Expensive Paintings Sold at Auction

The 88-year-old artist David Hockney is still active in his studio practice and his market has been growing in recent years.
Yahoo

David Hockney in lockdown: How the artist found his perpetual spring in a horrible year

What do you do on lockdown if you are one of the world’s most popular and highly regarded artists? If you are David Hockney, you draw. All day. Every single day. “I knew that to do anything really ...
Yahoo

‘Critics aren’t convinced by him’: David Hockney’s curator on art world snobbery

Sir Norman Rosenthal on the work of David Hockney: ‘In his own indirect way, he explains the world’ - Clara Molden It was, Norman Rosenthal says, one of those moments you never forget. “People say, ...
Laweekly

Art News: David Hockney Makes A Splash In Palm Springs, Plus What’s In The Cards

From Saturday, November 23 to Monday, March 31, 2025, the Palm Springs Art Museum will present David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His ...
Artnet

‘Affecting’ or ‘Passionless’? Critics Are Divided on David Hockney’s Newly Opened Immersive Light Show

Move over Immersive Van Gogh. Here's how a living artist is taking on the craze for projected, animated art light shows. David Hockey at Lightroom. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe. The show is the ...
Observer

This Honolulu Exhibition of David Hockney Prints Trades One Paradise for Another

Viewers are encouraged to explore Hockney’s works from different perspectives. Courtesy the Honolulu Museum of Art / Jordan D Schnitzer and his family foundation For most, landing in Hawaii means ...
The Washington Post

This 1968 David Hockney painting suggests complex social relationships, partly by leaving them out

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. David Hockney painted this electrifying double portrait of two art ...
The Southern Illinoisan

Artist David Hockney gives close-up look at self in exhibit

LOS ANGELES — The aspiring artist was 17 when he took pencil to paper in 1954 and sketched a stunningly mirror-like image of himself as a student at England's Bradford School of Art. In the 63 years ...
Wall Street Journal

David Hockney’s Adventures in Printmaking

When David Hockney visited New York for the first time in 1961, he had little money and a lot of ambition. Straight off the plane, the young British artist made his way to the Museum of Modern Art, ...
AOL

With a new David Hockney show in Palm Springs, we visit the artist's L.A. haunts

Artist David Hockney was a driver: after visiting and then moving to Los Angeles in 1964, he zipped around the Hollywood Hills in his red 450 SL Mercedes, perhaps to Chateau Marmont, his spot in ...
Queerty

Inspired by the great David Hockney, this artist wants his work to be gayer, sexier & even more personal

Not everyone can say they’ve literally written the book on one of their heroes. But Evan Turk can—and he drew it, too! Turk is a Southern California-based author, animator, and artist, whose work ...
The Atlantic

Artist David Hockney's Assistant Died, and, Yes, There's a British Mystery

Dominic Elliott, the 23-year-old personal assistant to David Hockney — arguably Britain's greatest living artist — is dead. He was taken from Hockney's home on Sunday morning to Scarborough General ...