David Hockney

David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (Photo Jonathan Wilkinson)

Top 10 Art Exhibitions of 2012

What were our top 10 picks of 2012?

Lucy McKenzie, May of Teck, 2010. Collection Charles Asprey © Lucy McKenzie

Art Review: A Bigger Splash @ Tate Modern

Is the creative process part of art, and where do you draw the line?

Compote Dish and Grapes

Art Review: Picasso And Modern British Art @ Tate Britain

Modern British Art is no match for Picasso.

David Hockney, Pearblossom Highway, 11-18 April 1986 #1

Art Review: David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture @ Royal Academy

Is the Hockney blockbuster everything it should be?

Hotel Acatlan: Second Day, 1984-85. Colour lithograph on two sheets of handmade paper. Paper and image 73.0 x 193.0cm. Edition of 98. Copyright: Courtesy of the Alan Cristea Gallery

Exhibition Preview: David Hockney Moving Focus @ Alan Cristea Gallery

Another David Hockey show: but this one’s free

Winter Timber, 2009. Oil on 15 canvases, 274 x 609.6 cm. Private Collection. © David Hockney. Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 17 – 23 January

This week’s new art, classical music, theatre, dance, opera and exhibition openings

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Extra, Extra

Snoopy, nosey or just plain curious Londoners will be relieved: the Metropolitan Archive Office is to reopen after a revamp. David Hockney has donated some very big trees to the Tate Modern. A senior BNP official plonker would seem to endorse rape. Hold us back, …

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Brit, Shit And Skit Art News

Damien Hirst has made the Tate’s Christmas by gifting them 4 of his art works. The infamous cow and calf bisected and suspended in formaldehyde, “Mother and Child Divided” is the Turner Prize winning crowning glory. This is a high profile donation, timed for maximum …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Day In London’s History 1991: A packed rush hour train carrying over one thousand commuters collides with the buffers at Cannon Street station. At 8:44am on 8th January 1991, the 07:58 train from Sevenoaks failed to stop when pulling into Cannon Street station and …

Mapplethorpe By Hockney

Can a great artist be a great curator? That’s the question they seem to be asking over at the Alison Jacques Gallery, where David Hockney is about ready to unveil his exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs. Hockney and Mapplethorpe go way back to the early …