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Friday, June 12, 2026
BREAKING: David Hockney, an icon of 20th-century art, dies at 88

British artist David Hockney — one of the art world’s most influential figures — has died, his publicist said Friday. He was 88.

Hockney was famous for works such as “A Bigger Splash,” depicting modernist architecture and a glinting swimming pool in Los Angeles, where he lived in the 1960s.

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