How a visit to Egypt 60 years ago exerted a formative influence on David Hockney's artistic career
LONDON: In October 1963, a young British artist, fresh out of London’s Royal College of Art but already making a name for himself as a groundbreaking painter, traveled to Egypt, fulfilling an ambition to visit a country that had long fascinated him. David Hockney’s odyssey to the land of the pharaohs 60 years ago would prove to be a turning point in the nascent career of an