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[Re]curated: David Hockney - The Artist’s Eye

Travel back in time to 1981 and experience a digital recreation of David Hockney's National Gallery exhibition ‘The Artist’s Eye’. 

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Travel back in time to 1981 and experience a digital recreation of David Hockney's National Gallery exhibition ‘The Artist’s Eye’. 

Hear experts Daniel Herrmann, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Projects and Lead Curator, Susanna Avery-Quash retell the story behind the exhibition and its paintings. 

Celebrating Hockney's lifelong relationship with the Gallery, the film brings the story up to date, in this our Bicentenary year, with insight into the 2024 exhibition 'Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look'

Part of [Re]curated, a series of virtual exhibition recreations and films from the National Gallery that explore how digital tools can help us unveil exhibitions from the past, for both research and enjoyment. 

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