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...Sydney's 1996 show, which pondered the future of photography in our computer-generated age. With a Los Angeles Times photographer fired during the Iraq war after he combined two images for added impact, it's a question that hasn't gone away. Just this month, British painter David Hockney, longing for the days when photography was the domain of darkrooms, not digital cameras, said the art form was dying because of its inability to remain "truthful" and "authentic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Dying, Changing | 3/17/2004 | See Source »

...photography is dead, it has never looked more beautiful. And if David Hockney were to visit Adelaide, he would probably stop dead in his tracks before one of Liu Xiao Xian's startling Lamda prints. For Liu's Home series, the Beijing-born, Sydney-based artist has Photoshopped Chinese family portraits before painted backcloths of places like the Summer Palace and Tiananmen Tower, together with larger backdrops of tourist sites such as Buckingham Palace and Sydney Harbour. With these digital dioramas of hope and home, Liu suggests photography's infinite possibilities, not its death. Here Hockney's worst nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Dying, Changing | 3/17/2004 | See Source »

...entrance of the audience into this magical world was beautifully accentuated by set and costume designer David Hockney’s whimsical approach. Typically, the Met’s sensational stage effects create a realism that puts Hollywood to shame, but Hockney understood that Die Zauberflöte is not about realism, and his vision transported the packed house from the banalities of real life into a divine fantasy realm. The stage, adorned with simple painted backdrops, was awash in pastels, and the singers wore brightly colored costumes (sky blue and gold for Sarastro and his priests, green...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mozart Makes Magic at the Met | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...that end she is working on a "brief love story" called Paper Pool, based on artist David Hockney's luminous pictures. Oh, but there's also a book on poker. And another inspired by Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress. "There's always that exciting moment when you see something in your head," she explains, "and you feel you've never seen something like it before, and you have this passionate desire to see it exist." Whatever new world she creates next, surely readers will want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafting a New Tower of Babel | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...more to the arts in California than the movies. Through 54 probing interviews with prominent writers, composers, architects and painters, Isenberg, a former chief arts writer for the Los Angeles Times, plumbs the qualities of the Golden State that inspire those who were born or moved there. Painter David Hockney talks about leaving drab England for sunny L.A., where he captured on canvas the colors that shimmer across swimming pools. Writer Maxine Hong Kingston discusses how growing up in a Chinese home in racially integrated Stockton helped her learn about different sensibilities. Jazzman Dave Brubeck, who grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: State Of The Arts | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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