Philip Conisbee, 62; former curator at LACMA, National Gallery Jan 22, 2008
Charming and funny, the bespectacled, silver-maned Conisbee was known for friendships with curators throughout the world, as well as such contemporary artists as David Hockney. Conisbee wrote widely about art in a number of books and publications such as Art in America magazine and the London-based Times Literary Supplement. (Los Angeles Times)
Duo scoop inaugural art prize Jan 18, 2008
The prize aims to reinvigorate the north's long tradition of leading artists, from Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth to David Hockney and Damien Hirst. More optimistically, it seeks to tempt them to stay in the region. (Guardian Unlimited)
Emin condemns the British Council Jan 13, 2008
Artists Damien Hirst, David Hockney and Tracey Emin have joined more than 100 British artists who have signed a letter condemning the British Council. They are angry over claims made in the Guardian newspaper that the council is planning a radical shake-up. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
More of this story Jan 12, 2008
The L.A. Opera production is a revival, featuring artist David Hockney's colorful sets ... It's a singing actor's dream," he said of his role, despite having to sing practically without interruption for 45 minutes in the third act.This production was first staged by L.A. Opera in 1987. At the time, its accolades were as much for the sets, by noted artist David Hockney, as for the singers. Watson said that because Hockney's set design is not limiting in time or place, it helps her overcome some... (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
More than 100 of Britain's leading artists, from Lucian Freud to Bridget Riley to David Hockney to Rachel Whiteread, today put their names to a condemning one of the country's most respected institutions: the British Council. It is a battle which has the potential to be protracted as well as acrimonious, and which is still largely shrouded in secrecy. (Guardian Unlimited)
The MuseumsQuartier Vienna in 2008 Dec 28, 2007
To name just as few: "Matthew Barney. Drawing Restraint" starts in March,"Punk - No one is innocent" is slated for May and October gives insights into the work of David Hockney with "Lovers, Friends, Still Lives, Landscapes and Some Dogs". Architecture fans have a lot to look forward to as well: as of February, the Architecture Center Vienna will present "The White City of Tel Aviv - Tel-Aviv's Modern Movement", in June the "Linz Texas" exhibit will open ahead of the celebration of European... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Personal gallery from Kitaj's kitchen wall goes on sale Dec 21, 2007
Work by artist and friends including Hockney, Freud and Auerbach at auction. Maev KennedyFriday December 21, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
* Pot luck art u@H@Dv Nb Nov 27, 2007
Previous contributors have included artists Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and David Hockney as well as Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, former Beatle Paul McCartney and photographer David Bailey. The cards were sold on Nov. 24. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Pop artist celebrates new works Nov 26, 2007
Jones, a contemporary of David Hockney at the Royal College of Art, has produced more than 30 works for the exhibition, which opens on Monday. They include paintings, prints and watercolours made over last two years in England, China and New Mexico. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Pro or con? Emin's miniature artwork keeps its secret Nov 25, 2007
Previous sales have included postcards by such luminaries as David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood, David Bailey, Julian Opie, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Manolo Blahnik and Sir Paul McCartney. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)
Vanity Fair photo archive to go on display Nov 20, 2007
Now photographers like Irving Penn and Helmut Newton dominated the pages of the magazine - Newton making even the tubbiest and most shambling subjects (for example David Hockney) look like. bermenschen. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
R.B. Kitaj, 74; paintings conveyed historical, literary themes Oct 25, 2007
Along with such peers as David Hockney, a classmate at the Royal College of Art in London, he largely rejected passing fads, including pure abstraction and pop art, as too detached and devoid of passion. Instead, Mr. Kitaj allied himself with the great artists of earlier generations, particularly Cezanne and Picasso, as well as such contemporaries as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. (Boston Globe)
R.B. Kitaj, 74; figurative L.A. painter Oct 24, 2007
He was urged to apply for the Royal College of Art and was accepted there in 1959, with 19 other students, one of whom was his lifelong friend David Hockney. Kitaj's early paintings seemed to reflect a fascination with surrealism. (Los Angeles Times)
Leafy lawn is an artist's canvas Oct 19, 2007
There are enough leaves still to fall that by the time this is published, I will be able to get out there again and play Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or David Hockney. (I am into pop-art lawns these days). (Anchorage Daily News)
The influence of Pop Art Oct 16, 2007
"Pop Art Portraits" contains works from 28 artists from Britain and the United States, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney, and is designed to show how the genre revolutionised portrait painting ... On the British side, canvasses by David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Patrick Caulfield are also in evidence. (iAfrica.com)
Francis Bacon a highlight of sale Oct 15, 2007
In addition to well-known artists like Bacon, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy and Damien Hirst, the sales are also offering works from other parts of the world, with a strong Italian and Chinese presence, including Zhang Xiaogang and Zeng Fanzhi. AFP. (iAfrica.com)
Germaine Greer Oct 8, 2007
He has never explained why some of our most distinguished artists - David Hockney, Anthony Caro or Peter Blake as well as Sarah Lucas, Jenny Saville or Marc Quinn - have never featured on the shortlist. There is every possibility that an un-Turner prize, for which the only qualification for candidates would be that they had never been shortlisted, would be more interesting and more fun, and heaven knows it could easily be worth more money, than the Turner prize itself. (Guardian Unlimited)
What's the point of the Turner Prize? Oct 3, 2007
Since any prize must be partly judged by its omissions, here are some artists who have not won the Turner, and are now either dead or too old to qualify: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Paula Rego, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Helen Chadwick, Susan Hiller. They're not all my favourites, just artists with a reasonable claim. (Independent)
Could you all please relax? Oct 1, 2007
As David Hockney once said to me: "It's funny how people worry about paintings fading, when artists' careers can fade even faster". In pictures. (Guardian Unlimited)
NPG buys Hockney portrait Sep 29, 2007
Self-portrait with Charlie, by David Hockney ... The pioneering scheme which puts Gift Aid receipts into a ring-fenced purchasing fund has paid 149,000 to David Hockney for a recent and striking study of himself and a friend. (Guardian Unlimited)
He doesn't have muscle, but he has chutzpah Sep 21, 2007
He remembers the date he first met David Hockney by the fact that Stravinsky had just died. Rosenthal has no formal qualifications in art or art history. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Old songs inspire artist's cross-country walk Sep 19, 2007
6 million on a six-panel landscape, A Closer Winter Tunnel, by British artist David Hockney. The painting is now on display at the gallery. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
London Fashion Week Sep 19, 2007
The thing about my clothes - they are just about people," Paul Smith said backstage on Wednesday, deliberately separating himself from the wild creativity of young London and joining designers who turn fashion into a buck or, in his case, millions of them. Is Smith being disingenuous? Yes. But he has a point. For the purpose of his fast-growing women's line is to replicate the masculine success on which his empire was constructed. So the inspiration of this show, as for the menswear shown in... (International Herald Tribune)
David Hockney, Chris Orr Paintings May Lure Collectors at British Art Fair Sep 10, 2007
Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The 20/21 British Art Fair opens tomorrow in London's Kensington district, where dealers such as Richard Green, Alan Cristea and Jill George will offer works by U.K. contemporary artists from David Hockney to Chris Orr. The six-day event has 56 British dealers, down from 61 last year, and organizers said attendance has changed little, at 12,000 to 14,000 visitors a year. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Bacon's 'rent art' to fetch 9m Sep 4, 2007
Former alumni of the Royal College of Art include Tracy Emin, David Hockney and Henry Moore. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Spring bidding budding Aug 24, 2007
The Art Gallery of NSW's Edmund Capon was also swanking about his latest acquisitions, artworks by Australia's Jeffrey Smart and James Angus, and Britain's David Hockney. Capon himself secured a de Chirico last year, paying a modest $384,000 for Les Chevaux Divins ", a later work sporting snorting stallions amid a faux classical background. On hand at the NGA festivities were wives Annabel Myer and Beverley Mitchell, along with a brace of young Myers. But clearly it was Dada who was pulling the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Young blood rules as Belgian designer makes his debut at Dior Jul 2, 2007
Smith was inspired by the do-it-yourself spirit of impoverished British art students and the primary color combinations of painter David Hockney. Models paraded in blonde wigs and Hockney's signature round glasses wearing boating jackets with contrasting silk trim. (International Herald Tribune)
Britain butts out Jul 2, 2007
July 1, 2007 at 9:19 AM EDT. LONDON England slammed the door on smoking in bars, workplaces and public buildings on Sunday in what campaigners hail as the biggest boost to public health since the creation of the National Health Service in 1948. (Globe and Mail -- International)
England bans smoking in public places Jul 2, 2007
David Hockney, the artist who has been waging a campaign against the ban, called it a "grotesque piece of social engineering" imposed by a "political and media elite.". (Agencies). (Xinhuanet, China)
602000 return on Lowry painting Jun 28, 2007
Works by David Hockney, John Piper and Keith Vaughn also featured, but a sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth failed to sell. The brass and string sculpture, Theme On Electronics (Orpheus), has been expected to raise 600,000. (BBC News)
A decade on ... the Dome works Jun 24, 2007
When asked, David Hockney said it would be best left empty, but New Labour abhorred a vacuum so it was filled with patronising rubbish. And when that was cleared away, it was left in pitiable desuetude. (Guardian Unlimited)
Resale royalties well short of what they are painted to be Jun 22, 2007
The British lobby group Artists Against Droit de Suite, which has included David Hockney, Karel Appel and Emma Sargeant, says the scheme, while designed to benefit artists, creates a shameful inequality between famous artists on the one hand and struggling artists on the other. In the indigenous context this inequality could exist between the few "descendants of famous artists" and the many more deserving living artists and other members of the communities in which they live. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
And the geeks shall inherit the earth Jun 21, 2007
THE artist David Hockney recently complained that our iPod age was an aural culture, inured to the visual world. Most musicians complain of the opposite, citing an increasing demand to augment the musical experience with visual distraction. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
iPods to blame for total eclipse of the art, says Hockney Jun 16, 2007
The artist David Hockney believes the ubiquitous music player is contributing to a decline in visual awareness that is damaging art and painting in particular. It even makes people dress badly. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Hockney hails 'fresh' Turner art Jun 12, 2007
Artist David Hockney has said he picked watercolours which offered an insight into JMW Turner's technique for a new exhibition of the late painter's work. "The pictures I have chosen come direct from the heart," he said at the launch of his show at Tate Britain in London. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Hockney fumes at the 'dreary people' threatening his beloved habit Jun 12, 2007
In the foreground: David Hockney. And an irascible Hockney was not content to talk just about the paintings. (Independent)
Hockney selects watercolours Jun 12, 2007
Still controversial at 70, David Hockney yesterday spoke of his fears that Britain was moving into a post-visual age, where people no longer really look at things, and instead wander round plugged into MP3 players. "It produces a lot of badly dressed people," he insisted. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Baby, you can't drive my car Jun 7, 2007
BMW decided to found a collection around the idea: there are now 16 cars including a Robert Rauschenberg, a David Hockney and a Michael Jagamara Nelson. BMW's Thomas Girst would not be drawn on the possible value today of the company's Warhol. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Giants of British art to star in Royal Academy summer show Jun 7, 2007
Some of Britain and America's most eminent artists, including Michael Craig-Martin, David Hockney and Jasper Johns, will be showing their work at the Royal Academy from today in one of the most impressive Summer Exhibitions in its history. Hockney's 40ft scenic painting of Yorkshire will form the largest work of the much-heralded collection, while the creations of the former Turner Prize nominees Tracey Emin and Issac Julien will feature alongside American artists Johns, Ed Ruscha, Robert... (Independent)
Tony Blair appears at the Royal Academy of Art - in the nude Jun 5, 2007
David Hockney unveiled his painting last week ... Among them is the largest painting to have been created by world famous British artist David Hockney. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Hockney unveils massive new work in London May 27, 2007
Influential British artist David Hockney has unveiled his largest painting ever for an upcoming exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Art ... David Hockney poses in front of his massive new work Bigger Trees Near Water at London's Royal Academy of Art on Friday ... Influential British artist David Hockney has unveiled his largest painting ever for an upcoming exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Art. (CBC New Brunswick)
Penelopiad announces all-female cast May 27, 2007
Influential British artist David Hockney has unveiled his largest painting ever for an upcoming exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Art. The Rome kickoff to Barbra Streisand's upcoming European tour has apparently been scrapped, amid a brouhaha by Italian consumer groups over high ticket prices for the famed performer's show. (CBC.ca)
Hockney completes his most ambitious project yet May 26, 2007
About a month ago, David Hockney hauled the 50 canvases that make up his largest-ever artwork into a van and drove to a large barn near his studio in Bridlington ... The picture of David Hockney ... June 2007: Hockney co-curates an exhibition of Turner's watercolours and five of his new landscape works: David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape, both to open at Tate Britain. (Independent)
'Marilyn chapel' to star again after 40 years May 25, 2007
As well as works by Warhol, Ray Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Ray Johnson, paintings by the British artists Sir Peter Blake and David Hockney will reveal the way in which Britain breathed new life into Pop Art. The Marilyn gallery will recreate the tribute show, Homage to Marilyn Monroe, held at the Sydney Janis Gallery in New York, five years after she died. (Independent)
Arts Scene: 05/24/07 May 25, 2007
Because of his rapport with artists, his portrait was painted by the likes of David Hockney, Alice Neel, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol, who also produced a 90-minute film of nothing more than Geldzahler smoking a cigar. This documentary includes oodles of historical footage and interviews with many of the art world's stars of the day. (Anchorage Daily News)
From Monroe to Gaitskell - pop art on show May 24, 2007
The exhibition next October will match big-name American artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns against their British counterparts Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and David Hockney, with subjects including John Kennedy, Elvis Presley, James Dean - and Hugh Gaitskell. The gallery's director, Sandy Nairne, said yesterday that the period was a turning point in portraiture, pointing the way to today's experiments such as Sam Taylor Wood's video portrait of a sleeping David... (Guardian Unlimited)
Suit: Celebrity restauranteur abused staff May 9, 2007
The Web site also describes Chow as an art collector and "Renaissance man" with an extensive portrait collection that includes images of himself by Andy Warhol and David Hockney. Copyright 2007 The. (CNN -- Law)
Leibovitz's Royal Photo Is Formal, Artificial: Review by Martin Gayford May 4, 2007
David Hockney, another Freud sitter as it happens, contends that it is the hours of observation `'layered'' into a painted portrait such as this which make it superior to a photograph. On the other hand, paradoxically, he contends that digital photography, with its capacity to alter the image, has become a form of painting. (Bloomberg -- UK)
MSA students capture art awards Apr 19, 2007
Province credited the influence of artist David Hockney for his second place entry. The junior said he mimicked Hockney's style of taking numerous photographs of a subject at extreme angles and placing into one comprehensive piece. (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
Hockney prepares double act with Turner Apr 16, 2007
New paintings of his native Yorkshire by David Hockney are to go on show at Tate Britain this summer in an exhibition with another of the country's great landscape artists, J M W Turner. Hockney, in his 70th year, is enjoying a golden autumn. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Hockney's inspiration: the idylls of his youth Apr 16, 2007
Decades before finding international fame as a pioneer of the British pop art movement, David Hockney felt creatively drawn to the dramatic East Yorkshire landscape of his birth ... The works, which are infused with memories and observations from his childhood, will be displayed in a new exhibition, David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape, which opens on 11 June at Tate Britain. (Independent)
Landscapes show oil and water do mix at Tate Britain Apr 16, 2007
An exhibition of JMW Turner's watercolour landscapes will be selected by David Hockney, working with Tate curators ... Stephen Deuchar, director of Tate Britain, said: "This is a rare opportunity for us to mount an exhibition of Turner's greatest watercolours, which due to conservation reasons can only occasionally be exhibited. I am delighted that David Hockney has agreed to work with us on the exhibition. It will show the development of the virtuoso techniques that enabled Turner first to... (Guardian Unlimited)
Francis Bacon's $30 Million Painting May Set Record at Sotheby's Sale Mar 29, 2007
He is among Britain's best-known 20th-century artists, along with Lucian Freud, Henry Moore and David Hockney, all with auction records of about 3 million pounds ($5. 9 million) or more, and Damien Hirst, whose highest known price of $8 million was achieved outside the auction room, when hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen bought Hirst's shark from Charles Saatchi. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Turner masterpiece to stay in UK Mar 2, 2007
Several leading artists, including David Hockney and Peter Blake, supported the appeal. More than 11,000 donations were received from all over the world. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Rich and famous towering above the masses Feb 26, 2007
Voyeurs of conspicuous consumption can spy as buyers sign contracts in glass-enclosed offices decorated with prints by Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg and David Hockney. "The sales center is exquisite. The presentation was very slick and finely detailed," said Arnold Stalk, an architect, developer and urban planner in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas Sun)
Banks become the new art galleries Feb 26, 2007
The bank also owns works by artists including Andy Warhol, David Hockney and others. Pages: 1. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Borrowing art has fallen from fashion Feb 21, 2007
Darien had an original David Hockney lithograph, "Pembroke Studio with Blue Chairs and Lamp," that sold for $6,000, Berry said. The auction netted $26,000, which the library used to buy new materials. (Stamford Advocate)
UK tourism resurges Feb 21, 2007
An exhibition by artist David Hockney helped the National Portrait Gallery achieve record visitor numbers ... The David Hockney Portraits exhibition had 151,555 visitors - the highest-ever attendance for a non-photographic show and the largest average daily attendance figure in the gallery's history. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
5.7m painting breaks record for living artist Feb 10, 2007
Peter Doig's The White Canoe sold for five times its estimate at Sotheby's in London, easily beating record prices for modern masters such as David Hockney and Lucian Freud ... But Doig broke David Hockney's own personal record for a painting set last year, with the sale of Splash for 2. (Scotsman)
Tate in 5m race to save Turner's 'Blue Rigi' for the nation Jan 23, 2007
Artists including David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Bridget Riley and Antony Gormley as well as television stars such as Joanna Lumley have already signed up at. The Tate has the biggest collection of Turners in the world, thanks to a bequest from the artist when he died in 1851 aged 76. (Independent)
Public appeal for Turner painting Jan 23, 2007
Several leading artists, including David Hockney, Peter Blake and Rachel Whitbread, have already bought brushstrokes to support the appeal. Huge shame. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Fantastic chair -- just don't sit on it Dec 14, 2006
Which is of course why they could ask the same price for a lounge chair as for a David Hockney. Sure, it looks like an oversized clown's shoe with rivets and is, in the designer's own words, "not even comfortable." This was, after all, the lounge that launched a thousand knockoffs, the prototype of the famed Lockheed Lounge, Marc Newson's masterpiece from 1986 that caught the eye of Philippe Starck and ignited the design world. (Los Angeles Times)
Miami heats up art mart Dec 12, 2006
A studio exec might've pitched the scene as David Hockney meets the Playboy Mansion. Date in print: Tue. (Variety)
Scientist rebukes theory of optics use in Renaissance art Dec 12, 2006
His work has lent a scientific perspective to counter the guesswork of optical-painting theories popularized by British pop artist David Hockney, who claimed Renaissance artists used an optical device to project images on a wall before tracing them. Proponents of the optical-painting theory point to Jan van Eyck's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
