iPad
New-found freedom
In 2018 David Hockney went to Normandy to look at the Bayeux Tapestry, which he had not seen for more…
‘I think I’ve found a real paradise’
Martin Gayford talks to David Hockney about life in the Norman countryside under quarantine, how the iPad is better than paint and brush, and why he is not a communist
Real life
My iPad is dead, that’s what’s wrong with it. The plumage don’t enter into it. But since the blasted thing…
Net effect
In the mid-1990s the art world got excited about internet art (or ‘net.art’, as those involved styled it). This new…
Low life
My boy was downstairs cooking Sunday roast. Earlier, I had been clambering about on a woodpile, stepped awkwardly, and twisted…
Real life
‘How often do you de-frag this?’ said the Good Geek in the phone shop. I had gone in finally to…
Looking at books
The sexy thing this summer, as the TV ads tell us, is the e-book. Forget those old 1,000-page blockbusters, two…
Apple scrumping
Caroline and I were watching The Fall in our front room when the intruder entered our house. Not great timing…
