Remembering David Hockney, Duane Michals, and Danny Simmons

By Lisa Yin ZhangJune 17, 2026

This week, we honor a painter who made the everyday otherworldly, a poet-photographer, and a champion of Black artists.

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Remembering David Hockney

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