David Hockney, “One Night,” 1966 My social media feeds have been full of the news all morning: the brilliant, prolific artist David Hockney died yesterday. He was 88. He lived an extraordinary life, having found success and enormous fame very young, still in his twenties; somehow he managed to keep doing new things, exploring new technologies, finding new media. With his iPad paintings, he humanized technology that often threatens to alienate us from humanness.