Celebrated British artist David Hockney dies at 88
6/12/202625 min
We look back on the life of David Hockney - one of the world's most influential modern artists and one of the best-known British contributors to Pop Art. Unlike artists such as Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney's art often focused more on personal experiences, portraits, landscapes and intimate scenes.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at fifteen hundred hours GMT on Friday the twelfth of June, these are our main stories. One of the world's best known and loved contemporary artists, David Hockney, has died at the age of eighty-eight. SpaceX is making