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Six Decades of David Hockney on View in Gloucester, MA
“Hockney Reproduction(s)" explores the artist's innovation through reproductive media at the Manship Artists Residency. Opens September 11, 2026
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Art Review
You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings
No amount of curatorial artspeak counters the sense that the late artist’s massive digital painting lacks the inventive mark-making and use of color that characterized his life’s work.
Obituary
Painter David Hockney, Who Made the Everyday Otherworldly, Dies at 88
His work over a prolific six decades ranged from psychologically precise portraits to luminous depictions of California pool sides.
News
Paris Metro Bans David Hockney Exhibition Ad Over a Cigarette
The famed British artist called the transit network's decision “complete madness” ahead of his major retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
Art
David Hockney Celebrates His Renaissance Inspirations
The core message of visual analysis and close looking in Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look is an apt mantra for the National Gallery's history.
Art
How David Hockney’s Early Experiments Shaped His Iconic Style
The Bruce Museum will shine a light on the friendships, influences, and experiments that helped shape the artist’s visual language.
News
David Hockney’s New Portrait of Harry Styles Unveiled
The painting will join other works by the 86-year-old artist in a forthcoming exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
News
Drake Pours Millions to Salvage Historic Avant-Garde Carnival
A Basquiat-painted Ferris wheel, a Keith Haring carousel, and more are part of the project, to be rebooted in LA next year.
Film
Films About Bosch and Hockney Among OVID’s New Additions in April 2020
The streaming platform has added new documentaries about artists, joining its existing collection of films on Pina Bausch, Roy DeCarava, and others.
Art
David Hockney’s Life in Drawing
The history of Hockney and his lifelong life-drawing itch, pursued now over seven decades.
Art
Paintings by the Famous, the Forgotten, and the Emerging
Two exhibitions explore the work of three painters in a chain of influence: Alan Davie, David Hockney, and Christina Quarles.
Film
Reveling in the Languor of David Hockney’s World
A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan's 1974 documentary on Hockney's circle, basks in the full-frontal, day-to-day details of their tightly interwoven emotional lives.