NYTIMES (Jori Finkel) - How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself
A Brit, he became a symbol of the city’s culture, stylish and alienating, with his vivid swimming pool paintings and embrace of SoCal light, hedonism and gay liberation.
NYTIMES (Lawrence Weschler) - David Hockney and the Bliss of Not Standing Still
“As important as the boys and the pools and the light,” a memoirist writes, “the most important thing was becoming the driving.” It would inspire an obsession with moving focus into the future.
NYTIMES (Holland Cotter) - Framing David Hockney’s Greatest Art
Whether in Los Angeles, in his native England or traveling the world, the artist always reinvented the world he saw, with psychological insight.
NYTIMES (Jacob Gallagher) - Hockney’s Sense of Style Never Wavered
The painter David Hockney’s clothes roared with mirth and maximalism.
NYTIMES (Alex Marshall) - With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech
Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.
NYTIMES (Norman Rosenthal) - What I Learned From David Hockney
The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.
NYTIMES (Holland Cotter) - David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.