Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval. Hockney made success look effortless: all colour, good humour, great glasses, cigarettes and smoky charm. But for a young gay artist from a northern mill town, nothing about that journey was effortless.
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The West Philippine Sea dispute has exposed a fault line within the Philippine left between those who oppose Chinese maritime aggression while accepting US military expansion as a necessary counterweight, and those who reject both. The independent left Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, has drifted toward accommodation with the Marcos administration's strategic alignment with Washington, including the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and US rotational forces. The Partido Lakas ng (…)