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The Bayeux Tapestry to be on display in London despite controversy – for up to £33 a ticket

David Hockney among critics who’ve called the transporting of the fragile artwork ‘madness’

The Independent UK

‘It was life-changing’: the celebrated art historian who spent 46 years sitting for Frank Auerbach

Catherine Lampert is a historian, curator and model who spent much of her time sitting for her famous friends. She tells us what the likes of Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Euan Uglow meant to her

The Guardian - UK

‘He stands for something we really need right now’: Inside an immersive new David Bowie exhibition at Lightroom

Late artist remains as relevant as ever, exhibition’s creators say, as he represents ‘creative curiosity’ and the ‘desire to connect’

The Independent UK

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Londoner's Diary: How much will James Corden pay for an ashtray?

What went on in London this week, from secret smoking parlours to unwanted book promo

Evening Standard

Tate to feature first Monet exhibition as organisation announces 2027 exhibition programme

Next year will also see the arts organisation celebrate David Hockney’s 90th birthday and the reopening of the Tate Liverpool

The Independent UK

Tate Modern Turbine Hall to showcase David Hockney opera sets

Immersive exhibition will form the centrepiece of the celebration of the artist’s 90th birthday next year

The Guardian - UK

'A Year in Normandie': David Hockney’s sweeping 70-metre-long artwork unveiled in London exhibition

An epic 70 metre art work by David Hockney, inspired by the Bayeux tapestry and the changing seasons in Normandy, is the star of a new landmark exhibition in London.

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David Hockney review: The iPad paintings underwhelm but it's hard not to be cheered by this show

3/5 The new Hockney show at Serpentine North has huge displays of his iPad paintings and a new canvas series, and shows the great man remains prolific and curious

Evening Standard

New David Hockney paintings depicting members of inner circle to go on display

Works by the Bradford-born artist will go on display at the Serpentine North Gallery.

Evening Standard

David Hockney review – a 90-metre vision of nature that only looks great on your phone

The artist has stitched together 100 iPad paintings into a vast digital frieze – but the results risk undermining the pleasure in simple beauty which was his great gift to British art

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney’s first English landscape on show for first time in almost 30 years

English Garden, painted in 1965, is on display before it goes under the hammer with estimate of £2.5m-£3.5m

The Guardian - UK

A great artist on paper: why Lucian Freud’s magical drawings are the key to his major works

The artist often swapped painting for etching as a way to rediscover his craft. Now a new exhibition shows these flashes of inspiration in all their intimate glory

The Guardian - UK

‘A crime against our heritage’: French fury over moving the Bayeux Tapestry

Art experts and local officials in France are horrified that the 1,000-year-old tapestry is being moved across the Channel

The Independent UK

‘Extremely fragile’ Bayeux Tapestry at risk from British Museum ‘vanity project’, expert says

Criticism comes after artist David Hockney described moving the 900-year-old treasure as ‘madness’

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Voices: ‘Something will go wrong’: Why readers agree with David Hockney – the Bayeux Tapestry should stay in France

YOUR VIEWS: Our community overwhelmingly sided with David Hockney, arguing that the Bayeux Tapestry is too irreplaceable to justify the risks of moving it to London, even temporarily

The Independent UK

David Hockney slams plans to bring Bayeux Tapestry to UK as ‘madness’ in major intervention

Exclusive: Artist condemns British Museum plans as a ‘vanity project’ that could cause ‘irreversible damage’ to priceless artefact

The Independent UK

Why it’s madness to move the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain

COMMENT: Writing exclusively for The Independent, David Hockney fears that the British Museum is taking too much of a risk by moving the fragile tapestry to these shores – and any damage could be irreparable

Euronews

Belle Époque posters, sex and body art: The most unmissable art exhibitions of 2025

From Belle Époque posters to radical performance art, 2025 delivered exhibitions that pushed boundaries and opened dialogues.

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Evening Standard

David Hockney at Annely Juda Fine Art: 'The greatest living painter - he is unstoppable'

5/5 Artist Daniel Lismore visits Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris to find Hockney at the peak of his powers

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You Never Have One When You Need It, So Here Are 15 Design-y Christmas Cards to Stock Up on Now, Before You Forget

Don't find yourself standing at the last-minute card section in Tesco this year...

The Independent UK

Colour, courage and cigarettes: David Hockney’s art of never slowing down

At 88, David Hockney is still reinventing the way we see. His new Mayfair show bursts with colour, wit and restless imagination – proof that age has done nothing to dim the artist’s curiosity or his joy in the world, writes Geordie Greig

The Guardian - UK

Luminous Enlightenment, dark genius and Soviet shades – the week in art

Joseph Wright of Derby’s shining innovation, Diane Arbus’s haunting portraits and an Uzbek angle on the end of the USSR

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris - review: still innovating, still fascinating

With this new collection of bright and bold still lifes, iPad experiments and splotchy portraits, the art-world titan is beginning to show his age in intriguing, unsteady ways that remain inimitably Hockney

The Guardian - UK

That’s me in the £45m Hockney! The man in the masterpiece relives sitting for David back in the heady LA party days

It was a landmark moment in queer art, painted when homosexuality was illegal in California. As this famous painting of Christopher Isherwood and Don Backardy goes under the hammer, the surviving sitter looks back

Evening Standard

House in legendary Kensington artists' studios for sale for £4.35m

The house was previously owned by the architect Christopher Smallwood, who renovated and re-designed the house himself

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