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/ 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’ as he does himself in one of his frequently used phrases. This will be the first time the works will...

Ali Cherri is the National Gallery's 2021 Artist in Residence Ali Cherri, Still from Petrified, 2016. Single-channel video, colour and sound. Duration: 12 min. © Ali Cherri. LONDON .- Ali Cherri, a Beirut-born artist whose work is inspired by artefacts and the natural world, is the National Gallery’s new Artist in Residence for 2021, it was announced today. Ali Cherri (b. 1976) is the second Artist in Residence to be chosen since the launch of the Gallery’s new Modern and Contemporary Programme, following the first appointment of Rosalind Nashashibi in 2019. The award is a collaboration w...