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David Hockney

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028 40.778459 -73.962703
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Type of Show:
Drawing/Illustration, Multimedia/Installation, Museum Exhibits, Photography

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Price

$25 suggested contribution, $17 senior citizens, $12 students, free for children under 12

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4, 5, 6 at 86th St.

Official Website

metmuseum.org

Schedule

Thru 2/25	Mon-Thu, Sun, 10am-5:30pm; Fri-Sat, 10am-9pm

Profile

No one does radiant color and pictorial unfolding in ways as endlessly inventive as the now-80-year-old David Hockney, our living maestro of the Lightness of Being. Openly gay, mingling with high and low culture as new artistic worlds were forming and old ones falling away, Hockney celebrated sybaritic and serious life ï¿½ but also the abstract complexities of time, light, shadow, permanence, and transience. At the Met, you can behold a sampling of this English master’s half-century: drawings, films, iPad sketches, paintings, and more. Don’t miss the films he’s made about art either; they are among the most insightful I’ve ever seen. — Jerry Saltz