David Hockney has died, aged 88. During lockdown in 2020, Martin Gayford, the author of ‘Conversations With Hockney’, spoke to him for the magazine. Spring has not been cancelled. Neither have the arts ceased to function. David Hockney’s marvellous exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery may be sadly shut, but the artist himself is firing

Hockney moved from London to Southern California in the 1960s and was an innovative painter, photographer, stage designer and printmaker.

David Hockney, one of the most celebrated and influential British artists of modern times, has died aged 88.

The British artist David Hockney has died aged 88.

Hockney "passed away peacefully at home on 11 June," just one month before his 89th birthday, his publicist has said.