David Hockney
David Hockney said he would keep painting until the very end. He was true to his word
“I’m just going to go on working ’til I fall over,” said the renowned British artist at the opening of his exhibition in Australia in 2016. He did just that.
- Debbie Cuthbertson
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David Hockney, artist renowned for his pool scenes, dies aged 88
The British artist, whose brightly coloured renditions of California made him one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on Thursday.
- Jill Lawless
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They ‘see’ music, smell colours, feel flavour. What’s it like to have synaesthesia?
Zinia is a composer who literally sees her music take shape. But it’s not just artists who experience this rare “crossover of the senses”. How does it work?
- Jackson Graham
Whiteley, Brack, Perceval. At 96, this art collector is farewelling his favourite works
While Peter Clemenger’s children will inherit some of the artworks he spent decades collecting with his wife, Joan, others were too big – and too important – to hand down.
- Elizabeth Flux
In the deep end: The swimming pool in Australian art
Every artist who has tried to depict a swimming pool – and in Australia there must be hundreds – will testify to the difficulties.
- John McDonald
$123.7 million for David Hockney painting shatters record
The price for the 1972 painting, Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures), easily surpassed the previous high.
Around the world with Art on Screen
Paul Grabsky's series of films about art and artists have been internationally popular.
- Ron Cerabona