Hockney's

I'd witnessed this staging with David Hockney's dazzling designs—each set is a work of art four times in the past.

A Season of Meager Delights David Littlejohn 2011

We get gossip about Hockney's portraits and are treated to his views of the clubs and of sex, but almost nothing about his understanding of composition and visual experience.

Michael Roth: Review of Rebels in Paradise Michael Roth 2011

The artists, some native to Southern California, others attracted by the promise of beaches, gorgeous girls or, in David Hockney's case, the boys! and, principally, of freedom from all the old ways of doing things, are at the center of everything.

Peter Clothier: Rebels in Paradise Peter Clothier 2011

(There's also a cute piece on David Hockney's use of the iPhone to create and share new art, but despite the promise in the print edition I can't find it up on the website yet.)

Archive 2009-09-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

The artists, some native to Southern California, others attracted by the promise of beaches, gorgeous girls or, in David Hockney's case, the boys! and, principally, of freedom from all the old ways of doing things, are at the center of everything.

Peter Clothier: Rebels in Paradise Peter Clothier 2011

The artists, some native to Southern California, others attracted by the promise of beaches, gorgeous girls or, in David Hockney's case, the boys! and, principally, of freedom from all the old ways of doing things, are at the center of everything.

Peter Clothier: Rebels in Paradise Peter Clothier 2011

The artists, some native to Southern California, others attracted by the promise of beaches, gorgeous girls or, in David Hockney's case, the boys! and, principally, of freedom from all the old ways of doing things, are at the center of everything.

Peter Clothier: Rebels in Paradise Peter Clothier 2011

Hockney's portrait of the pair has Bachardy looking straight ahead, while Isherwood glances sideways at him, troubled and uncertain.

Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young' Peter Conrad 2010

The artists, some native to Southern California, others attracted by the promise of beaches, gorgeous girls or, in David Hockney's case, the boys! and, principally, of freedom from all the old ways of doing things, are at the center of everything.

Peter Clothier: Rebels in Paradise Peter Clothier 2011

The artists, some native to Southern California, others attracted by the promise of beaches, gorgeous girls or, in David Hockney's case, the boys! and, principally, of freedom from all the old ways of doing things, are at the center of everything.

Peter Clothier: Rebels in Paradise Peter Clothier 2011