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‘Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths’: David Hockney’s winking celebration of queer life www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential prese...

Reminder to start reading The Hotel for our next Reading Group: 29th July, 7pm BST, online. Bowen's excellent début novel set in Italy. Link soon 🙌

David Hockney (1937-2026) We are so deeply saddened to learn of the passing of a true artistic giant. David Hockney made an indelible mark on visual culture, imbuing his pictorial work with vibrancy, playfulness, keen observation, and his own sexuality. Rest easy and thank you, Mr Hockney 🩵

C'est avec une profonde émotion que nous apprenons la disparition de David Hockney. Créatif jusqu’au bout de sa vie, renouvelant sans cesse ses idées, David Hockney est incontestablement une des figures majeures de l’art contemporain.

Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died David Hockney, the iconic British painter who cast a revolutionary gaze across 20th-century art, has died aged 88. He made his name as a pop artist during the swinging 60s and was perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Bigger Splash and Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) depicted hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss taking place below the city’s sun-soaked skies. Continue reading...

🌊🪨⛵️ Rock, ahoy! Continuing this month’s Cork Harbour theme, we’re taking an artful look at a hazard to shipping…

Once again, anticipating #caturday Saul Bellow by Jill Krementz, 1997 "Saul Bellow, in addition to winning the Nobel Prize in literature, was an accomplished flute player." - JK

🛁 On #InternationalBathDay, we're taking a sneak peek at the tub of a famous couple: Nina and Wassily Kandinsky! Although it was kept outdoors for many years, artist Roseanne Lynch notes that from the paint remnants found on it, it could be traced to their home at the influential Bauhaus in Dessau.