David Hockney may be turning 80, but he remains as relevant in the 21st century as he was in the 20th in large part to his embrace of new technology, says Julian Brooks, curator of half of the Getty ...

There is a traditional, proper way to celebrate the milestone birthday of a famous artist: to organize a large, dramatic retrospective covering decades of his or her career. And that is precisely what ...

LOS ANGELES – The aspiring artist was 17 when he took pencil to paper in 1954 and sketched a mirror-like image of himself as a student at England’s Bradford School of Art. In the 63 years since, David ...

In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo curator Julian Brooks looks at David Hockney's self-portraits, iPad drawings printed on paper, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. The aspiring artist was 17 ...

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David Hockney was way ahead of today’s ubiquitous selfies. In the 1980s—already famous for his painted landscapes of California pools and suburban houses—he threw himself into drawn, painted and ...

The mixed media artwork is titled Bolton Junction Eccleshill, Bradford [David Hockney/Tennants Auctioneers] An early David Hockney artwork, created when the world-renowned artist was just 19, is ...