Hockney - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

In 1974 Hockney was the subject of Jack Hazan's film, A Bigger Splash, named after one of Hockney's most famous swimming pool paintings from 1967. Hockney was also the inspiration of artist Billy Pappas in the documentary film Waiting for Hockney, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.

A biography of Hockney David Hockney: A Rake's Progress by writer/photographer Christopher Simon Sykes, covering the years 1937–75. appeared in 2012. On 14 August 2012 he was the subject of BBC Radio Four The New Elizabethans presented by James Naughtie".

In 2005 Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey centered his entire spring/summer menswear collection around the artist and in 2012 fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, a close friend, named a checked jacket after Hockney In 2011 British GQ named him one of the 50 Most Stylish Men in Britain and in March 2013 he was listed as one of the Fifty Best-dressed Over-50s by The Guardian.

In December 2012 The Sunday Times published for the first time works that it had commissioned Hockney to produce on a 1963 trip to Egypt and which had been shelved because of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Hockney had been paid in full but the works had never been previously published.