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David Hockney

August 2024

  • Painted side-on to conceal an eye lost to jousting … the Duke and Duchess of Urbino by Piero della Francesca, c1475

    ‘One of the most charismatic artists ever’: Piero della Francesca, adored by everyone from Hockney to Heaney

  • Tim Adams

    Notebook
    I swear by almighty river: an ancient practice is making a comeback in Britain’s courts

    Tim Adams

July 2024

  • A vivid iPad still life of dandelions, buttercups and violets; a red- and purple-toned iPad self-portrait of David Hockney smoking a cigarette, wearing glasses and looking directly at the viewer; still life of a pink lily in front of a window with its blinds drawn.

    My friend David Hockney: Martin Gayford on the prophet of painting

    Thanks to his sharp wit and turn of phrase, the British artist’s voice is almost as distinctive as his line. A new book introduced by the art critic Martin Gayford gathers his musings on art, life, nature, creativity and more

June 2024

  • Lynn Barber and David Hockney smoking outside a building

    A Little Art Education by Lynn Barber review – pocket portraits that are a breath of fresh air

    Star interviewer, provoker of the Chapman brothers and the woman who made Howard Hodgkin cry… Barber’s slim book about her obsession with artists – particularly those who smoke – is wonderfully entertaining

February 2024

  • Cornelia Parker at the National Gallery with her favourite painting, The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck

    ‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery

  • The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square

    Hang on to National Gallery’s 1900 cut-off date

  • From left: Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli's ‘unabashedly gorgeous' Lust For Life (1956); ‘raw, restless' Jeffrey Wright in the title role in Julian Schnabel's Basquiat (1996); the Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint in Halina Ryschka's documentary Beyond the Visible (2019).

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best films about artists

  • Three people look at a painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

    National Gallery should scrap 1900 cut-off date, says art expert

January 2024

  • Collage of photographs and art from Stokoe's life

    Exhibition revives work of anti-careerist British artist Neil Stokoe

    Art school contemporary of David Hockney shunned self-promotion but is now subject of retrospective

December 2023

  • David Hockney - "Perspective Should Be Reversed" 2014, photographic drawing printed on paper, mounted on Dibond. Edition of 25. 42 1/4 x 69 1/4"

    Hockney in Hawaii: museum curates artist’s largest print exhibition to date

    An expansive show that makes the largest retrospective print exhibition of David Hockney’s career to date goes from the 50s up until 2022

November 2023

  • Nicolas Cage in Dream Scenario

    Going out, staying in
    From Dream Scenario to the Prodigy: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  • Benedict Birnberg, civil rights solicitor

    Benedict Birnberg obituary

  • A preview of the David Hockney: Drawing From Life exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

    Don’t knock mindfulness – it helps us artists see the world as it is

  • Life drawings by David Hockney on display at the new exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery  in London

    The life-enhancing gift of life drawing

October 2023

  • A new bloom … Self Portrait, 22 November 2021, in the Drawing From Life show.

    David Hockney review – a dazzling victory parade from a boundless lover of life

    Whether channelling Picasso, depicting Celia Birtwell or capturing Harry Styles, the artist communicates profound joy – and his most recent paintings really boom with energy and hope
  • David Hockney painting Harry Styles

    No one can draw from life like David Hockney – but more than ever are trying

    Growing numbers of hobbyists are attempting to emulate the artist and capture the truths of the human body at life drawing classes
  • David Hockney "Self Portrait, 22nd November 2021" Acrylic on canvas 36 x 30" © David Hockney Photo Credit: Jonathan Wilkinson

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Hockney bounces back, a Myanmar blockbuster and fantasy in the library – the week in art

    Hockney’s life and art, the crises of modern Myanmar, new works by Yinka Shonibare, and a celebration of the many worlds of fantasy

September 2023

  • Lady Sleeping in Bed won the Hugh Casson drawing prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2006.

    Rachel Heller obituary

  • Ruth wilson in a pub with her arms folded, looking hunted/defiant

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Woman in the Wall; David Hockney: A Celebration; The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies; Starstruck – review

July 2023

  • Graham Coxon

    On my radar
    On my radar: Graham Coxon’s cultural highlights

    The musician from Blur and the Waeve on the magic of Spain’s Alhambra, chip butties and his love of jazz biographies
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