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Scotsman
14-05-2025
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- Scotsman
Scottish city named among ‘World's 10 best cities for culture' in 2025 by Time Out
In compiling this year's list, Time Out used two data sources. First, more than 18,500 people around the world were surveyed about culture in their city. Each city was then ranked according to how locals rated the quality and affordability of its culture scene. They were also asked about the cultural venues, events and festivals they love the most in their hometown. This data was then combined with scores from a panel of Time Out culture experts – Time Out's global network of city editors and culture experts – who voted for their favourite destinations. To ensure the list reflects cultural cities globally, only the highest-scoring cities for each country were included on the longlist. Grace Beard, Travel Editor at Time Out, said: 'Time Out's annual ranking of the world's best cities for culture is the definitive travel guide for those seeking a cultural city break where experiencing art in all its forms is affordable and accessible. Informed by the insights of 18,500 city-dwellers and a panel of Time Out experts, this list reflects the global destinations where art and culture isn't confined to mammoth museums and major arts venues (though there are plenty of those). 'Think pop-up festivals in unlikely locations, late-night museum parties, and a new class of creatives pushing the boundaries of performing arts. Each of these 20 cities has a lively programme of cultural events alongside legacy institutions for the arts – that's why they're the cultural capitals of today.' Take a look through our gallery to see the top 10 of Time Out's Best Cities for Culture in 2025 – and find the full list of 20 here: 1 . World's 10 best cities for culture in 2025 named Time Out has released its annual ranking of the World's Best Cities for Culture - and Edinburgh occupies a lofty position on the prestigious list. Photo: Time Out Photo Sales 2 . 1. Paris, France Time Out says: 2025 is a big year for Paris museums, from the reopening of the Grand Palais with a stunning exhibition from Dolce & Gabbana to the temporary closure of the Centre Pompidou, bowing out with Paris Noir, an ode to France's Black artists in the late twentieth century. In the city of light, its arts scene is embracing after-hours culture, with museums leaning into late-night events, including at David Hockney 25 and at the Nuit des Musées in May, where a number of museums will mix culture, music and light late into the night. Photo: Pixabay Photo Sales 3 . 2. Florence, Italy Time Out says: Florence's culture scene is a melting pot of Renaissance splendour and cutting-edge culture, including Tracey Emin's exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi, open-air movies at Villa Vardini and contemporary dance in a Roman amphitheatre. Florence received the second-highest number of votes from Time Out's arts and culture experts, while 73% of locals said the scene was top notch. Photo: Pixabay Photo Sales 4 . 3. Edinburgh, UK Time Out says: Best known to some for the world-renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival, this Scottish city is also home to brilliant museums, a rich literary history and electric live music. But, just when you think you've seen it all, something new comes along – like the buzzing Days Festival, back for a second year this May with its underground dance lineup. Europe's first museum of contemporary Palestinian art also opens its doors, while Chappell Roan lights up the Summer Sessions with her only UK gigs beyond Reading and Leeds. Photo: Pixabay Photo Sales Related topics: EdinburghCultureStaycationsScotland
Forbes
15-04-2025
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- Forbes
David Hockney In Paris: The Largest, Most Joyful Exhibit Worth The Trip
David Hockney, Untitled, 22 July 2005. Oil on canvas. 'David Hockney 25,' the just-opened exhibit at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, is the largest to date of the British artist featuring more than 400 works, including some never seen before. A once-in-a-lifetime experience that certainly merits the trip to Paris and already numbered among the blockbuster exhibitions of the year, it is also a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton and will be open until August 31. Opened at its entrance by an appropriately hopeful slogan in pink neon in these times of turmoil and uncertainty — 'Do remember they can't cancel spring' — the Hockney exhibition is an experience that connects visitors with the world through an array of joyful, colorful, inspiring paintings, i-pad drawings and sometimes spectacular videos. A Year in Normandy, chair, David Hockney, 2020 'Inside and outside the soaring spaces of the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, everything is in bloom, a joyful vision and a record of a life in art lived with passionate curiosity, attention to the human condition and reverence for the natural world,' the New York Times enthuses in a review. It's the most extensive retrospective ever dedicated to the 87-year-old painter, featuring works from 1955 to 2025 and that, despite its sheer amount, as Le Monde's critic writes that 'you find yourself thinking it's not enough.' The Guardian's critic found the the show 'so moving, I had tears in my eyes.' David Hockney, Play Within a Play Within a Play and Me with a Cigarette, 2025. Acrylic on canvas with collage. This exceptional exhibition curated by Norman Rosenthal, former director of the Royal Academy in London, has been organized according to the artist's choices and instructions, and in addition to a major collection from his studio and his foundation assembles loans from international, institutional, and private collections. It includes works created using a wide, delightful and often astonishing variety of techniques — oil and acrylic paintings, ink, pencil, and charcoal drawings — as well as digital works across photographic, computer, iPhone, and iPad devices — and immersive photo and video installations. Apple Tree 2019. Acrylic on canvas. David Hockney, 27th March 2020 'He himself chose, after presenting some of his legendary early work, to open the exhibition with the last 25 years' production, thus offering an immersion in his world, spanning seven decades of creation,' the Louis Vuitton museum explains. 'He wanted to personally follow the design of each sequence and each room.' As described by Le Figaro: 'This painter, so English down to his bold pate and colorful attire, navigates with a touch of impatience in his 'electric chair,' gazing longingly at the hanging of this dazzling exhibition. His two nurses bring him his coke, but he lights his beloved cigarettes alone, with the same dandyish gesture he's always had. Vitality lurks like a volcano not yet extinguished.' At the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris' Bois de Boulogne, the explosion of colorful, relatable, joyful and immersive works illuminate the 12 rooms dedicated to the show, communicating the artist's joie de vivre and bringing smiles of delight - and sometimes even gasps - to observers. It's the satisfaction of remembering that nature offers infinite inspiration, if one simply looks. David Hockney: A room of portraits in many different styles, welcomes visitors. David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 "David Hockney 25" shows the constant renewal of the artist's subjects and modes of expression and his exceptional ability to reinvent his art. Initially a draftsman, then a master of all academic techniques, he is today a champion of new technologies. Born in 1937 in Bradford, an industrial town in northern England, Hockney started painting at a young age, his creative universe spanning seven decades that make him one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. As a preamble, the exhibit starts with emblematic works such as the Portrait of An Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972, and his series of double and single portraits. Then, nature assumes an increasingly important place in Hockney's work from the 1980s to the 1990s before his return to Europe. The core of the exhibition concentrates on the past 25 years, spent mainly in Yorkshire, Normandy and London, a celebration of the landscape, the spectacular explosion of spring and the changing seasons to culminate with the winter landscape Bigger Trees near Water or/ou Peinture sur le Motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique, 2007, loaned by London's Tate Museum. David Hockney, Bigger Trees near Warter, 2007.' Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972. Acrylic on canvas. During the same period, David Hockney painted friends and relatives in acrylic or on iPad while also working on self-portraits. The exhibition features some 60 portraits shown alongside his 'portraits of flowers.' Created on a digital tablet but displayed in traditional frames, the works have an intriguing effect. This is evident in Looking at the Flowers (Framed), 2022, where they are shown together on the wall. David Hockney, 25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers. Photographic drawing printed on paper Seeing them in that painting and then recognizing them hung around the room radiates joy to visitors of all ages. Hockney is a reliable 'porteur de bonheur ' with his blossoming trees, multicolored flowers and vibrant landscapes. 'You can learn a lot in this exhibition – not just about photography and the human eye but art history and perspective' writes the Guardian's reviewer. 'He show us how beautiful the world is in spite of those who try so hard to ruin it.' David Hockney, 24th February 2021, Red, Yellow and Purple Flowers on a Blue Tablecloth. iPad painting printed on paper, mounted on aluminium David Hockney, 30 Sunflowers, 1996. Oil on canvas. 'Day after day, season after season, the artist captures the light variations,' the curators explain. 'A series of acrylic paintings is on display featuring a highly singular treatment of the sky, animated by vibrant touches, that subtly evoke the work of Van Gogh.' The final room on the top floor feels more emotional in its joyful cornucopia of color. It unveils David Hockney's most recent works, painted in London, where he has lived since July, 2023. These enigmatic paintings are inspired by Edvard Munch and William Blake: After Munch: Less is Known than People Think, 2023, and After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, 2024, in which astronomy, history and geography cross paths with spirituality, according to the artist. Here, also, appears 'Play Within a Play Within a Play and Me With a Cigarette' (2025) , his latest self-portrait in his London garden painting the same image we see, as the daffodils around him announce spring. David Hockney: After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, 2024 Giverny by DH, 2023. Acrylic on Canvas. Nearing the end, new works are placed that engage the spectator in a video at the artist's studio, transformed into a dance hall where musicians and dancers are regularly invited to perform. Passionate about opera, Hockney also reinterprets the set designs he has been creating since the 1970s in a spectacular new multimedia, polyphonic creation where visitors are immersed in a musical and visual piece. David Hockney 25 is at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, until August 31. Tickets are available here.
South China Morning Post
09-04-2025
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- South China Morning Post
Biggest David Hockney exhibition ever opens in Paris featuring around 400 artworks
Increasingly frail but with undimmed passion, Britain's David Hockney has put aside his health worries to shape in Paris what he describes as the biggest exhibition of his vast career. Advertisement With around 400 works over four floors, drawn from museums and private collections worldwide, the exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation is a stunning tribute to one of the world's bestselling living artists. Although titled 'David Hockney 25' and mostly focused on the last quarter-century of his life, it also contains paintings from his early career, as well as his blockbuster time in California in the 1960s. In the last of 11 rooms there are several unseen creations from the past two years, including a self-portrait in acrylic and a striking meditation on the afterlife inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. Self-portraits of British painter David Hockney at 'David Hockney 25'. Photo: AFP Artworks on display at 'David Hockney 25'. Photo: EPA-EFE '[The show] has enabled him to look back in a positive way,' said Norman Rosenthal, guest curator and a long-time friend of Hockney, ahead of its opening to the public on April 9. 'He's very, very happy with the exhibition.'
Reuters
08-04-2025
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- Reuters
David Hockney retrospective fills Paris Fondation Vuitton
PARIS, April 8 (Reuters) - The largest exhibition yet of works by British artist David Hockney opened in Paris on Tuesday, filling the entire multi-storey Fondation Louis Vuitton museum with more than 400 works spanning seven decades. Drawn from museums and private collections worldwide, the "David Hockney 25" exhibition focuses on the last quarter century of Hockney's work, including many of the digital paintings on iPad he has pioneered. Co-curated by Hockney's friend Norman Rosenthal, it also features some of Hockney's best-known works, including the 1972 "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)", which in 2018 sold for $90 million, at the time the highest price for a work by a living artist. "I've learned to compare David Hockney with Picasso. Not because he's the same, but because of the scale of his work, and the imagination, and the total achievement is not dissimilar," Rosenthal said. Many of the works are set in London and in Yorkshire and Normandy, respectively northern England and northern France, where the artist has spent most of his time this century. "The show means an enormous amount to me because it is the largest I ever had ... in the Fondation Louis Vuitton's great Parisian building, designed by my LA friend Frank Gehry," said Hockney in the exhibition brochure, referring to the winged building in Paris' Bois de Boulogne park. The exhibition includes the monumental 12 metre-wide "Bigger Trees Near Warter", painted in 2007, paintings from his California period in the 1970s, as well as dozens of still lifes, landscapes, portraits and self-portraits. One of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Hockney, 87, was a major figure of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and has remained at the forefront of modern art, reinventing his familiar themes in new media and technologies, the exhibition's brochure said. "(Hockney) shows us the way, while recognising that the path that he himself has followed is continually evolving," Fondation Louis Vuitton President Bernard Arnault wrote in an introduction to the exhibition. It runs until August 31.
The Guardian
04-04-2025
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- The Guardian
‘A mutual love affair': David Hockney 25 retrospective makes a splash in Paris
Poised to open its doors on Wednesday, Paris's biggest art show of the year carries the humble title David Hockney 25. A more accurate description of its ambition would have been the name of the artist's best-known painting: A Bigger Splash. Purportedly focused only on the last quarter-decade of the Yorkshire-born painter's career, the 456 works on display at the Fondation Louis Vuitton's 11 vast galleries in fact span 1955-2025. The one-off exhibition includes acrylic paintings, iPad drawings and immersive video works, from Hockney's classic California swimming pool scenes via his Swinging Sixties portraits to the pastoral Yorkshire and Normandy landscapes of the later years, as well as unseen, William Blake-inspired spiritual paintings completed in the past two years. Announced by the British curator Norman Rosenthal as the most important show in the career of Britain's greatest living artist, and described by the architect Frank Gehry as 'the biggest show they have ever had' at the decade-old private museum, it also underscores Paris's efforts to reclaim from London its status as Europe's art capital. Born in Bradford in 1937, Hockney has over the course of his career been a resident in London, Los Angeles and the Yorkshire coastal town of Bridlington. In 2019, he settled in a 17th-century farmhouse in the Pays d'Auge countryside, south of Deauville, Normandy. The 2020 lockdown led him to produce a continuous 90m frieze of iPad paintings inspired by the Bayeux tapestry nearby. Entitled A Year in Normandie, it is again on show in Paris this week. The artist's move coincided with renewed French interest in the British artist after a large retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2017, followed by shows at the Galerie Lelong and the Orangerie museum in Paris, the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and the Matisse museum in Nice. 'France and Hockney became a mutual love affair,' said Catherine Cusset, a French author whose 2018 'biographical novel', Life of David Hockney, is being reissued in an illustrated version this week. 'I think he felt at home here: he enjoys good food and good wine, and the French are more tolerant than England or California when it comes to his other big passion – smoking.' Cusset explained her country's view of the British artist: 'The great appeal of Hockney's paintings is that they are easy to understand. This was sometimes a criticism. In France, though, Hockney found a tradition of other painters giving an enchanting view of the world: Matisse, Bonnard, and his neighbour in Normandy, Claude Monet.' Yet an exhibition of the size and scale of David Hockney 25 can only in part be explained by mutual admiration. For the show, Fondation Louis Vuitton is loaning works from museums around the world – signature paintings such as A Bigger Splash and Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy from the Tate, the panoramic A Bigger Grand Canyon from the National Gallery of Australia – creating transport and insurance costs that would be hard for other institutions to shoulder. The Gehry-designed private museum, sponsored by the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH and headed by one of the world's richest people, Bernard Arnault, opened in Bois de Boulogne in 2014. 'When the Fondation Louis Vuitton hosts a show these days, there is almost no competition', said Thaddaeus Ropac, an Austrian gallerist. The museum's most successful show to date, 2017's Icons of Modern Art, drew 1.3 million visitors. The opening of Fondation Louis Vuitton kickstarted a proliferation of similar private exhibition sites, such as the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, by the billionaire founder of luxury group Kering, François Pinault, which opened in 2021. The Fondation Cartier is setting up a large contemporary art space on the historic Place du Palais-Royal in Paris, right across from the Louvre, that will open to the public in autumn. 'Paris has developed in a way I used to think was not possible', said Ropac, who has galleries in Paris and London and commutes between the two European capitals. 'We haven't seen such a concentration of new museums anywhere else in Europe, or even in the US recently.' Britain remains the largest market for art in Europe by some distance: according to the 2024 Art Basel & UBS art market report, France's estimated share of the previous year's global art sales was 7% compared with Britain's 17. But the trend and the ambition are with the French capital. 'Paris used to be the art capital of the world in the early 20th century,' said Clément Delépine, the director of Art Basel Paris. 'Then we lost that status to London and New York. Now there's a shared assumption that we can collectively reposition our city.'
