Tag: David Hockney

  • Hockney – Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature

    For those hoping to see the shared sensibilities and sensitivities of two of the world’s most famous artists, disappointment may be in store: the similarities explored are mostly superficial and the exhibited work is 90% Hockney

  • Billy Apple interview: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else 1961–2018

    Billy Apple is not just an artist – he’s a trademarked brand. He talks about exchanging his art for a knee operation and his new exhibition at the Mayor Gallery, London

  • David Hockney: Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]

    Coming off Hockney’s stunning retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating his 80th birthday, this new body of work proposes to resolve the artist’s lifetime pursuit of accurate perspective with a radical new way to authentically see

  • Guy Yanai: ‘Every work that leaves my studio is part of an inexhaustible autobiography’

    The Israeli artist Guy Yanai explains the stories behind the bold, colourful oil paintings in Speak, America, his solo exhibition in New York, and talks about being influenced by Vladimir Nabokov, David Hockney and Matisse

  • Masterpiece Fair 2017

    The fair is a theatrical display of extravagance, peppered with instantly recognisable works by big names, which it is a joy to stumble across. But there are also rarer treasures, from a previously unseen Andy Warhol sketch to a recently…

  • Queer British Art 1861-1967

    To mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of sex between men, Tate Britain’s contribution to the plethora of queer exhibitions across the UK is a well-curated, well-balanced, aesthetically compelling tribute to sexualities and genders across the spectrum

  • David Hockney

    Celebrating 60 years of Hockney’s work, this exhibition charts the art of a modern great through decades of change

  • Century: 100 Modern British Artists

    The UK may be struggling with its identity in a globalised world, but the artists of the past century knew exactly who we were, as seen in this joyous and playfully curated sweep through 20th-century British art

  • David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life

    The brightly coloured faces lining the walls of this exhibition show a human fascination with people. Hockney is the lens through which these images have been captured, the characters are the story of his life

  • Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth

    This exhibition explores the genre of the self-portrait, looking at the ways in which more than 50 artists from the 1400s onwards have sought to visualise the self