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Just as Goya did, David Hockney is going deaf. He has been for years. It doesn't keep him out of many conversations, though. He loves to talk, and with the help of two hearing aids, he can follow the flow of most discussions well enough. He's always happy to talk about art. He's particularly happy to talk about portraiture, especially since his own portrait work, more than five decades of it, is the subject of an important show that will open Feb. 26 at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He's very happy to talk about...
...back to art in a moment. What Hockney really wants to talk about lately is smoking. To his immense annoyance, the British government plans by 2008 to ban it in nearly all workplaces, in restaurants and even in pubs that serve food. A few weeks ago, leading me around his sturdy brick house in Bridlington, a British seaside resort town not far from where Hockney was born, he's steaming. "You know that Hitler didn't smoke?" he asks suddenly, as though daring me to disagree that this alone might explain der Führer's lust for world conquest. Last...
...although it has been a while since he was the bad boy of British painting, a title that passed years ago to Damien Hirst--he of the dissected sharks--Hockney still takes pleasure in casting aside the latest standard of middle-class morality. He has aged, and in some ways he has mellowed, but he has not gone soft. He's 68, a time when many artists are repeating themselves or fading into the margins. But Hockney has always managed to take his art down enough new paths--double portraits, photocollages, Cubist landscapes--to keep himself, if not always cutting...
...British magazine ArtReview compiled a Top 10 ranking of the most highly valued artists in terms of the total value of sales. Botero came out at No. 5, behind artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg but ahead of Dutch painter Karel Appel and Britain's David Hockney. The editors estimated that Botero's paintings and sculptures had sold over the years for more than $57 million. Although a big chunk of those profits went to collectors, millions have been made by the artist himself. Now 73, Botero says he's lost track of how much he's created...
...guests, certainly the hottest ticket in town, was a mixture of glitz and ritz, power and talent. The guests included Actors Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck and John Travolta, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who was seated at Diana's right), Architect I.M. Pei, Explorer Jacques Cousteau, Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Hockney, and Nancy's cat pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping with royal preferences, was light: lobster mousseline with Maryland crab followed by glazed chicken capsicum and a dessert of peach sorbet. The President and the Prince each was to give a toast; but the Prince, complaining...