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Cristina Iglesias’s latest installation Sea Cave (Entrance) was unveiled at the 3rd edition of the MICAS International Art Weekend

It’s the capital’s flagship exhibition this autumn, showcasing some of David Hockney’s finest works over a career spanning six decades, including a recent series of sometimes controversial digital paintings that defiantly celebrated spring during the first lockdown in 2020.

/ David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France. What has emerged in this heartfelt series is an absorbing and interesting pattern of visual meditations on, as the title has it, the arrival of spring (Normandy 2020). Hockney has also been enthused by the iPad. Engin...

/ From June 2021, the Royal Academy of Arts will present David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020, comprising the period in which these works were made coincided with the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, where Hockney, along with the rest of Europe and much of the world, was in a state of lockdown. Faced with an unprecedented and perplexing period, Hockney’s focus on the emergence of spring instead celebrates the natural world and urges people to’ love life’ ...

Many of the works in the show have been hung together to demonstrate their structural similarities, such as Emin’s Black Cat (2008) and Munch’s The Death of Marat II (1907) © Nicky J Sims/Getty Images As an MA student at the Royal College of Art in 1989, Tracey Emin carried all of the paintings she could from her studio and smashed them to smithereens with a sledgehammer in the college courtyard—before throwing what was left into a skip. The mangled canvases formed pa...

Edith Devaney appointed Managing Director and Curator for David Hockney Edith Devaney will leave her position as Contemporary Curator and Head of Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London early next year to take up this position. © Benedict Johnson. LONDON .- David Hockney has appointed Edith Devaney in a newly created role of Managing Director and Curator and as such she will help manage the Hockney entities under his direction. He has also appointed her Editor-in-Chief of his ...

/ David Hockney, in a very 21st-century manner, has appointed Edith Devaney in the newly created role of Managing Director and Curator of his practice. As such she will help manage the Hockney entities under his direction. He has also appointed her Editor-in-Chief of his Catalogue Raisonné project. Devaney has initiated and curated several exhibitions of David Hockney’s work Edith Devaney will leave her position as Contemporary Curator and Head of Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of A...

Art Industry News: The Fate of This Real Estate Tycoon’s Collection Could Be the Biggest Question for the Art Market in 2021 + Other Stories Plus, Cai Guo-Qiang responds to criticism of his Palace Museum show and the Academy Museum delays its grand opening (again). December 21, 2020 Sheldon Solow and Mia Fonssagrives Solow at the Institute of Fine Arts 75th anniversary dinner honoring Shedon H. Solow, May 20, 2008. Photo Will Ragozzino/Patrick McMullan. Art Industry News is a daily digest of...

Edith Devaney has been appointed David Hockneys new managing director and curator © Benedict Johnson The artist David Hockney has appointed Edith Devaney, a curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (RA), as his managing director and curator. After 22 years at the RA, Devaney is stepping down as contemporary curator and head of Summer Exhibition and will take up the new post early next year. Devaney will “help manage the Hockney entities under his direction”, sa...