{"id":657705,"date":"2026-06-25T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657705\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:21:08","slug":"bradford-public-invited-to-pay-tribute-to-david-hockney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657705\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford public invited to pay tribute to David Hockney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A book of condolence has been opened at Bradford City Hall to allow David Hockney&#8217;s home city to remember him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hockney, who died aged 88 on 11 June, was born and educated in Bradford and was one of the UK&#8217;s favourite artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradford Council said the book would provide a place of reflection from people whose lives have been &#8220;touched by Hockney&#8217;s remarkable contribution to the world of art and culture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking at a meeting of Bradford Council on Wednesday, Lord Mayor Chris Herd paid tribute to one of the area&#8217;s &#8220;most well-loved sons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A proud Bradfordian, his extraordinary success brought great distinction to our district and helped place Bradford firmly on the global cultural map,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hockney was awarded the Freedom of the City in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A book of condolence has been opened at Bradford City Hall to allow David Hockney&#8217;s home city to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}