David Hockney’s Endless Scroll

Hyperallergic highlighted debate around David Hockney’s late digital works, focusing on a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite iPad “painting,” “A Year in Normandie” (2020–21), shown at Serpentine Galleries as part of “A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting.” Writer Olivia McEwan criticized the iPad as a restrictive tool for mark-making while noting the exhibition’s presentation of more than 100 printed iPad images digitally stitched into a scroll encircling the gallery to encourage movement and close looking. The piece also references the Bayeux Tapestry, an 11th-century, 230-foot (about 70-meter) linen narrative of the Norman conquest, mentioned as returning to England for a forthcoming British Museum exhibition, and notes that Hockney had opposed a French government loan of the tapestry on conservation grounds. The article states Hockney died last month at age 88 and situates the discussion within broader coverage including Tate naming Jessica Morgan (formerly of the Dia Art Foundation) as its next director.

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