Celebrating David Hockney
The exciting “David Hockney” exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue in 2017–18 was a resounding success. Scores of enthusiastic visitors flocked to the Museum’s galleries to explore this major career retrospective, where they encountered room after room filled with his trademark pulsating color, exuberant wit, and life-affirming aesthetic.
The New Yorker called it “a revelation,” while the Washington Post extolled it as “one of the delights of the season.” Though the show has now closed, the beloved artist is still at work on new paintings, digital drawings, and more.
Gallery view of “Large Interior, Los Angeles.” Oil paint, ink on cut paper, on canvas, 1988. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Natasha Gelman Gift, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1989 1989.279
Born on this day in 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Hockney has pursued his singular career for more than six decades. The Met exhibition presented a wide range of work in all the varied media in which he has expressed his unique vision: painting, drawing, photography, collage, video, and kinetic digital drawings. As he turns 84 years old today, he is sure to keep surprising us with his extraordinary creativity and uncommon innovations.
David Hockney at The Met
Three iPad drawings in The Met galleries
Because the traveling exhibition was organized collaboratively with the Tate Britain, London, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Met was especially fortunate to be the only North American venue for this remarkable show—as well as the only authorized seller in North America of the paperback edition of the catalogue.
The paperback edition of the catalogue (right) is still available
Shop here to purchase the best-selling exhibition catalogue online, still available in the paperback edition. You will also find our exclusive Hockney poster reproduction.
Happy birthday, David Hockney!