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Sydney Morning Herald Column
David Hockney: Current
Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 Sydney Morning Herald Column,In 1988 a London critic described David Hockney as “the lost boy of contemporary painting.” A decade later, another newspaper columnist compared him to the Ancient Mariner, as a garrulous old codger. It’s a measure of Hockney’s elusiveness over the course of a very long, very successful career. There’s some truth in both claims. The […]
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David Hockney
Thursday, November 24th, 2016 Blog,David Hockney is crazy about those tiny drawings Vincent Van Gogh would include in letters to his brother, Theo. “These days he’d be sending them on his iPhone,” says Hockney, who has emailed thousands of iPhone drawings to friends around the world. His romance with the iPhone continued until the iPad came along. In a […]