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When the artist came home from LA, it seemed like a retirement. But it heralded an astonishing new chapter. Our critic remembers their thrilling dinners together – and the dazzling new works that arrived in his inbox every morning It was springtime in Paris and I was floating among young green leaves and white blossom – but I was not in a park. I was on an upper floor of the Fondation Louis Vuitt…

From his taut, sun-kissed portraits of LA to his vast psychedelic Yorkshire landscapes to his 70m iPad Normandy epic – here’s our pick of the artist’s best works Continue reading...

As he opens a career-spanning show in London, the Turner prize-winning artist gives us a private view of his giant studio and talks censorship, controversy and why disobedience is central to making great art In Anish Kapoor’s 3,100 sq metre studio complex in south London, photographers, assistants and gallery representatives gather in an upstairs meeting room. The artist has a staff of 23 in Lond…

He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households ‘He changed the world just by looking at it’ David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88 Six decades after David Hockney painted A Bigger Splash , his mo…

From lush rose gardens and botanical studies to sculptural acrylic blooms and impasto flower portraits, this week’s Heart List celebrates seven artists finding entirely different ways to paint flowers. These works come from artists across the globe, each bringing their own approach to colour, texture, atmosphere, and storytelling. Some capture the fleeting beauty of a garden at dusk, others trans…

He pushed landscape painting into the stratosphere, demolished one-point perspective, invented the Los Angeles look, embraced iPads, created dazzling stage sets for theatre and opera … David Hockney didn’t just appear out of nowhere like some fully formed artistic wunderkind. His work was a synthesis of so much that came before and was happening around him. He took the ideas of minimalism and abs…

Texas-based artist Lesa Shaw paints women of colour with a rare balance of strength and stillness. In this conversation, she reflects on evolving from vibrant, expressive portraits toward quieter, more atmospheric figurative work rooted in reflection, transformation, and emotional presence. From drawing paper dolls as a child to becoming a self-taught painter and educator, Shaw speaks about colou…

For years, people dismissed K-pop music videos as nothing more than flashy visuals, expensive sets, and perfectly synchronized… The post The Hidden Art History Inside Your Favorite K-Pop MVs appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

David Hockney, whose paintings of pools shimmering in the Los Angeles sunshine became icons of 20th-century art, has died at the age of 88. Hockney was born in the north of England but lived much of his life in southern California, making its sun-drenched suburban views a major motif. Later in life he returned to Europe, finding renewed inspiration in the wooded hills of his native county of York…

The artist, who died Thursday at 88, came to Los Angeles in the 1960s and created indelible, shimmering images of the city's people, scenes and sunlight.

David Hockney, the towering British-born artist who made Los Angeles his home, turned the city's landscapes filled with glittering pools, rolling hills and lush foliage into consequential art. Here are five of his best works.

Artists and cultural figures celebrate the great Yorkshire painter who could ‘make teabags and toothpaste glamorous’ – with a poem from a fellow Yorkshireman ‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’ David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88 My earliest memories of modern artists were of David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley. I remember seeing a TV programme about…

My friend Rachel Nicholson, who has died aged 91, is known as an artist whose paintings possess rich colour, extraordinary focus and stillness, yet she only began making them in her 40s. Rachel was born in London, one of triplets born to the artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. She, her sister Sarah and her brother Simon spent a childhood shaped by her parents’ need to maintain their own c…

Artist Thomas Blanchard likes to create wild visuals from a mixture of mundane ingredients like ink, soap, oils, and ferrofluids. In this latest video, he’s mixed chemical reactions and physical phenomena into something reminiscent of a god’s eye staring across time and space, creation and destruction. (Video and image credit: T. Blanchard)

David Hockney, the innovative and prolific British artist who arrived in Los Angeles in 1964, soon celebrating its sun-drenched life and landscapes in colorful, wildly popular paintings, has died.

Anish Kapoor gets a blockbuster showing, Barbara Hepworth’s pioneering use of colour is showcased and we look back at our beloved David Hockney – all in your weekly dispatch Anish Kapoor The sublime is unleashed in a blockbuster spectacle by this modern master of colour, space and mystery. • Hayward Gallery, London, from 16 June to 18 October Continue reading...

The latest in the art world highlights the continued evolution of global art fairs, museum programming, public art… The post The Latest in the Art World: From Frieze 2026 to the FIFA World Cup Art Project appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

Radical Argentinian artist who demanded the viewer participate in his kinetic art “Art today is nothing but a tremendous bluff,” Julio Le Parc complained in his 1963 manifesto, presenting a series of home truths to the French cultural establishment. “The public is a million miles away from artistic events.” The Argentinian artist, who has died aged 97, had relocated to Paris and was caught up in …

He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid the blue skies and pools of California. David Hockney, who has died aged 88, lived and painted the truth • David Hockney – a life in pictures • David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88 David Hockney changed the world just by looking at it. His art was …

Bradford-born painter, who made his name with sun-kissed visions of California, has died • Tribute: ‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’ • David Hockney’s life in pictures David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88. He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paint…