The portrait of David Webster will return immediately to the opera house before going to the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 for its reopening exhibition

UK’s leading artist sends two new images of hope

The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about how it is important to really "see"

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about being part of the great landscape painting tradition

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist shows his en plein air painting style

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses why he pursued illustration when others deemed it unworthy

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses how mirrors and lenses were used by Old Masters to create proto-photographic images

Marina Abramovic's opera The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, which opened to a socially distanced audience in Munich last week, is the latest in a long history of artistic explorations of the art form

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about the art he believes remains fresh and memorable today

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about religion, spirituality and what happens when you die

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist ponders what it is about his paintings that appeals more to female viewers

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist explains why one should never concentrate too much on a central subject

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses what the scenes of Yorkshire and California have in common

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses how his life is much more sedate than people imagine

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses the woodland setting of one of his plein-air paintings

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist reminisces about his arrival in Los Angeles

To mark the British artist's birthday today, we release behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, in which he describes where he gets his innate sense of assurance from

UK’s leading artist, David Hockney, sends a message of hope

Reporting on food and figures at Annely Juda, Waddington Custot and Soft Opening

Auction house fields a steady contemporary evening sale in London

Our pick of highlights from the next fortnight's fairs and auctions

We look back at the biggest art sales of the year, which reveal a concentration on New York over London and a continued dominance of 20th century male artists

We look at which contemporary artists hold the record for the most shows in the capital over the past 20 years

We revisit our exclusive interview with the British artist. Plus, expert Martin Gayford tells us about Hockney, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and others in post-war London

"I remember my mum painting cherry blossoms in the garden, when I was five or six—I think I ate some paint."

Yorkshire-born Hockney named an “icon” for being the most expensive living artist at auction, exhibiting with Van Gogh and creating pioneering iPad works