{"id":809460,"date":"2026-10-21T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809460\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:48:08","slug":"bradfords-david-hockney-gallery-reopens-after-major-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809460\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford&#8217;s David Hockney Gallery reopens after major update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new exhibition celebrating the work of David Hockney in his home city had input from the globally renowned artist prior to his death, its curator said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hockney, who died in June aged 88, was involved in approving the inclusion of new works in the reopened David Hockney Gallery at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curator Jill Iredale said there was now an &#8220;additional poignancy&#8221; to the show, which is free to enter and runs until 21 October 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors to the gallery in Manningham will be able to see some of Hockney&#8217;s choices, including images of his French home in Normandy made using sketches and an inkjet printer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iredale said: &#8220;We were always planning to put in a refreshed exhibition after the Bradford City of Culture celebrations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were working with the artist on how to update the narrative of the exhibition, include some new up-to-date works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously the artist&#8217;s passing during this process has added an additional poignancy to the display you can see here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King Charles III was among the thousands who visited the gallery to see Hockney&#8217;s work during Bradford 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new exhibition celebrating the work of David Hockney in his home city had input from the globally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809461,"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-809460","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\/809460","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=809460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}