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Inside the Most Expensive Art Collections Owned by Celebrities and Billionaires

Serious art collection is not for the faint of heart -- or the faint of wallet. It can be an expensive game, especially if you're interested in the masters.

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Norman Toynton obituary

Other lives: Artist of the pop art generation who was fascinated by the possibilities of pegboard as a ground for his work

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National Gallery accused of risking ‘bad blood’ with Tate over 20th-century art

Sources say decision to collect ‘modern’ art could have two galleries ‘at each others’ throats’ – but others welcome move

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Royal Bank of Scotland keeps £20m art hoard private – despite public access promise

THE Royal Bank of Scotland’s multi-million-pound art collection is still being kept behind closed doors despite the bank’s bosses’ 16-year-old…

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David Hockney’s 90-metre Normandy nature frieze to be shown in London

A Year in Normandy features iPad works with which British artist brought people comfort during Covid crisis

The Guardian - UK

The ugly truth: have Trump’s tariffs finally put an end to Crocs’ 19-year reign?

The Guardian’s Crocs correspondent traces the highs and lows of the rubbery perforated clogs that divide opinion

The Guardian - UK

Alien landscapes, Arctic artists and pioneers of pleasure – the week in art

Georgia O’Keeffe and David Hockney enjoy the air, the British Museum looks to the far north, and the Folkestone Triennial gets under way

The Guardian - UK

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Anyone who thinks the iPad isn't a serious art tool hasn't been paying attention

From royal commissions to gallery walls, digital painting is no longer just a quirky sideline; it's a valued artform in its own right.

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King and Queen meet artists to celebrate 25 years of Royal Drawing School

Works by David Hockney, Tim Burton and frontline Ukraine sketches were shown as Rufus Wainwright performed for the royal couple.

Evening Standard

The Independent Pride List 2025: the LGBT+ people making change happen

PRIDE 2025: The Independent’s Pride List is back again, celebrating the LGBT+ community’s biggest pioneers over the past 12 months

The Independent UK

Cynthia Erivo and The Vivienne among ‘LGBT+ changemakers’ in 2025 Pride List

The Independent’s Pride List for 2025 also includes Tom Daley, Joe Lycett and Bella Ramsey.

Evening Standard

Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allure

The Guardian - UK

Hockney in London review – hip, horny but still searching for his own style

Before he made a bigger splash, David Hockney was an angry, tempestuous student mashing together the styles of the big artists of his time

The Guardian - UK

In The Mood For Love: A cheeky joyride around David Hockney's earliest works

4/5 An exhibition at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert has unearthed rarely seen pieces from Hockney’s student days, where he documents his friends, lovers and plenty of penises

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The Independent UK

Grandfather and grandson art dealer duo curate exhibition celebrating David Hockney’s early work

New exhibition marks the first in-depth exploration of the early period of Hockney’s career, when he was a student at the Royal College of Art

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney’s rarely seen early works united in new London exhibition

Exclusive: In The Mood For Love, curated by grandson of early Hockney champion and art dealer, John Kasmin, will feature works from 1960-63

The Guardian - UK

‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz

As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about drugs, orgies and psychoanalysis

Evening Standard

Creating a universe of colour: pianists Kolesnikov & Tsoy play tribute to Hockney

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy open Paris’s David Hockney retrospective with two ground-breaking concerts. By Lillie Rage

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Evening Standard

Celebs gather in support of Robbie Williams at launch of singer's art project

Pop star turned artist came to town for his first-ever art show and invited a host of celebrities to share the moment

Evening Standard

Robbie Williams on success, cocaine, trauma — and finally growing up

Robbie Williams never went away, but he’s back with, yes, an art show — and wildly candid tales of his days at the Groucho, surviving the 1990s and his desperation for affirmation, as told to Dylan Jones

Euronews

Culture Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

David Hockney's largest ever exhibition, Michael B. Jordan's vampire horror 'Sinners', the return of 'Black Mirror' and a book about a woman that fetishises airplanes — here's what's on this week's cultural agenda.

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney 25 review – so moving I had tears in my eyes

As reliable as spring daffodils, Hockney reminds us how beautiful the world is with this captivating life-review in paintings and iPad drawings

International Business Times

Frail David Hockney Celebrated In Vast Paris Retrospective

Increasingly frail but with undimmed passion, Britain's David Hockney has put aside his health worries to shape what he describes as the biggest exhibition of his vast career.

The Guardian - UK

‘A mutual love affair’: David Hockney 25 retrospective makes a splash in Paris

Exhibition of 456 works by the Bradford-born Francophile underscores Paris’s efforts to reclaim its status as Europe’s art capital

Euronews

Paris Metro bans David Hockney exhibition poster due to artist’s cigarette

Promotional material for the upcoming David Hockney exhibition in Paris has been banned because the artist is seen with a cigarette. Hockney described the situation as “complete madness”.

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