Article: David Hockney Ponders Fame and Eclecticism

Mary Blume
International Herald Tribune
02-06-1999
Like Lord Byron, who awoke to find himself famous, David Hockney has been celebrated from an early age. He handles fame a lot better than the noble lord did by now it is simply a condition of his life though he admits to pulling rank, as he puts it, for the first time recently to get a hotel room near the rim when working on his Grand Canyon series.

He is in Paris for a three-show marathon: at the Centre Georges Pompidou, at the Maison de la Photographie Europeenne and at the Musee Picasso (the last two opening Feb. 10), the whole accompanied by a big press conference (sly question: who is the best living painter, reasonable answer: ...

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