Important Works on Paper exhibition Nov 17, 2009
This exhibition includes works by Sam Francis, Shane Guffogg, David Hockney, Wassily Kandinsky, Minjung Kim, Andr; Masson, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Jules Pascin, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Andy Warhol ... The European contingent is completed with one of contemporary art's reigning masters, David Hockney. (AbsoluteArts.com)
No minimum stay required to rest your eyes on these hotels’ fine art Nov 8, 2009
Highlights include The Deux, a lithograph by David Hockney, one of Britain s most influential 20th-century artists. It hangs to the right of the front desk. (Boston Globe)
Public art boosted by tax scheme Nov 6, 2009
Works of art by Titian and David Hockney are among almost 20m worth of cultural objects accepted in lieu of tax this year, it has been revealed ... In a written ministerial statement, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge said Titian's The Triumph of Love had been allocated to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, while the Tate had received Study for Doll Boy, and The Berliner and the Bavarian by David Hockney. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Lehman Bros. art is on auction block Oct 31, 2009
Highlights of Sunday's sale include prints by Claes Oldenburg, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Frank Stella and Roy Lichtenstein. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Shake It :An Instant History of the Polaroid Oct 12, 2009
Included in this exhibition are works by Nobuyoshi Araki -Rut Blees Luxemburg - Guy Bourdin - Tim Braden - Roe Ethridge - Walker Evans - Richard Hamilton - David Hockney - Andr Kertsz - Robert Mapplethorpe - Jonathan Monk -Lisa Oppenheim - Lucas Samaras - Michael Snow-Juergen Teller - Andy Warhol - Wim Wenders ... Many of the works in this exhibition have never been shown in the UK before, such as David Hockney's large composite Polaroid Nicholas Wilder Studying Picasso. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Early Hirst collage goes on sale Sep 25, 2009
Page last updated at 13:32 GMT, Thursday, 24 September 2009 14:32 UK. Red Rubber Doll is a rare example of Hirst's early work. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Hockney calls for smoke ban review Sep 19, 2009
Internationally renowned artist David Hockney has joined East Yorkshire MP Greg Knight's campaign for designated smoking areas in pubs and restaurants. Hockney, who is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, said he is "angry" and "fed up of being treated like a child" by the law which came into force two years ago. (BBC News -- UK)
My New York: Martha Stewart Sep 13, 2009
" 5. Wyeth Home, 315 Spring St., at Greenwich Street It s a fabulous, gigantic store filled with mouthwatering modern stuff. I go for inspiration. I m a hunter when it comes to antiquing. I m also a changer. Nothing is ever upholstered in [something I like]. I like to spend a lot of time at the upholsterer. 6. Chinatown I like Chinatown for vegetables and fish. I also like fresh water chestnuts and lychees, so I ll go there to get those things. 7. Mario Badescu Skin Care, 320 E. 52nd St.,... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
* [ART JOURNAL] Acts of devotion Jul 22, 2009
And not just Beerbohm, but Ingres, Holbein and David Hockney; so perhaps it is here that one finds the true act of devotion, not to mention humor ... One is a spry portrait of David Hockney in which the trademark glasses are swimming-pool deep. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Saturday's TV: Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections Jun 5, 2009
Hughes achieves this demolition job by following it with insightful analysis of astonishing paintings by Portuguese artist Paula Rego, German Anselm Kiefer, Englishmen David Hockney and Lucian Freud and others he deems more deserving of the attention than Koons. Hughes sounds occasionally like a man railing against the void, or at least wading against the tide, but he makes a strong case. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Crossing to safety May 17, 2009
David Hockney s 1966-67 painting A Beverly Hills Housewife (from the estate of Betty Freeman, a Los Angeles arts patron), for example, earned $7. 9m, over $2m more than the artist s previous high price. (The Economist)
My Phone, my canvas May 3, 2009
Artist David Hockney in front of his painting A Bigger Grand Canyon 1998 Oil on canvas , which was purchased by the National Gallery in 1999 ... British painter David Hockney revealed on Thursday how he uses his iPhone to paint pictures, as a new exhibition of works he produced on his computer opened in London ... Artist David Hockney in front of his painting A Bigger Grand Canyon 1998 Oil on canvas , which was purchased by the National Gallery in 1999. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
NYC spring art auctions will be smaller Apr 28, 2009
Both houses are offering exceptional works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian and David Hockney, but there are fewer star quality works because "sellers are reluctant to sell to this market because they don't think they will get the best price," Nash said ... In this image released by Christie's New York, David Hockney's "Beverly Hills Housewife," a 1967 acrylic on canvas, diptych, is shown. (AZCentral -- Business)
Warhol to Galileo to Glyndebourne Apr 19, 2009
On display one finds some very celebrated subjects, indeed: Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mao Zedong, David Hockney. The exhibition includes some 100 Warhol paintings. (Boston Globe)
Betty Freeman auction includes Hockney, Warhol Apr 4, 2009
An early financial backer of composers like John Adams and Phillip Glass, she also collected the works of artists including David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Dan Flavin and Andy Warhol. Four months after her death at age 87, Freeman's estate is selling 19 of the contemporary paintings in her collection. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Art.view: A light-adapted eye Mar 29, 2009
Through the broad glass windows of Christie s Duke Street gallery could be seen a large painting, instantly recognisable as the work of David Hockney, Britain s most popular artist both as a painter and as a man. It showed a woman in a pink dress standing in the middle of a room in a modern home that looked as if it was in Los Angeles. (The Economist)
Two-Week Public Art Installation Featuring BMW Art Cars by Stella, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg and a Project by Artist Robin Rhode Commissioned by BMW to Open at Grand Central Terminal on March 25, 2009 Mar 24, 2009
The most recent contributors to the BMW Art Car program are David Hockney (1995), Jenny Holzer (1999), and Olafur Eliasson (2007). New artists are chosen by a prestigious panel of international judges, and BMW is currently in discussions for the development of the seventeenth art car. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Palm Springs Art Museum A different look at Robert Mapplethorpe (7) Mar 23, 2009
The exhibition includes photographs of William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Hockney, Grace Jones, Roy Lichtenstein, Iggy Pop and Andy Warhol, among others. Many images in the exhibition have attained iconic status, such as the photo of Patti Smith used on the cover of her first album, while others have never been published. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
Baroque painter took snaphots Mar 12, 2009
She investigated use of chemicals after building a camera obscura with the artist David Hockney. Using lenses and mirrors to project an image was written about by Leonardo da Vinci. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Prince Charles Beats Obama for Best Dressed Mar 6, 2009
The prince, who is heir to the British throne, beat off competition from Obama - who came fourth in the top ten - artist David Hockney (seventh), tennis player Roger Federer (eighth) and US rapper Andre 3000 (tenth). Prime Minister Gordon Brown, however, was named one of the worst dressed, with the magazine noting he had once "turned up in the Iraqi desert wearing black lace-ups". (Newsmax)
