David Hockney

Based in Santa Monica for six decades, the artist has spent a lifetime capturing likeness through line, from David Hockney to his life partner Christopher Isherwood

‘I had an amusing thought about being a tattoo artist the other day’

Upon his release, the 81-year-old artist declined a glass of whisky and asked for a cup of Yorkshire Tea

In further news: a long-lost tapestry owned by Henry VIII re-emerges; Kerry James Marshall’s Chicago Public Library mural withdrawn from auction

At Manchester Art Gallery, an exhibition brings attention to how the selected ‘highlights’ of a collection tell a deeper story of erasure 

With a show running at Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, the legendary British artist talks painting, photography and joining the two together

The new initiative will loan celebrated National Portrait Gallery artworks to towns across the UK that they are most closely associated with

Major solos and innovative group shows span Zoe Leonard, David Hockney and Latin-American Homoeroticism

Tate announces record visitor numbers, documenta artists defend its curators, Zeitz MOCAA to open

A guide to the off-site shows in Venice this week

Hockney’s masthead for The Sun and ways to make the bubble bigger: a cultural report from the capital

David Hockney to design a new stained glass window for Westminster Abbey; Richard Prince faces yet another lawsuit

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The co-founder of print workshop Gemini G.E.L. talks about the evolution of the iconic institution

Tate announces its 2017 programme; Cairo's Townhouse Gallery will be rebuilt - the latest news from the art world

The British Museum tops the UK's most visited attractions, and other art world headlines

David Hockney gets a major retrospective and Umberto Eco passes away: a round-up of the latest art news

Nottingham Contemporary, UK

A new, expanded edition of Lawrence Weschler’s classic, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin is a cause for celebration

frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice