France 1998 World Cup mascot Footix for my new solo art show “FUTBOL! FUTBOL!! FUTBOL!!!” opening July 3 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery! More sneak peeks coming.
Painting of one of the greatest tragedies in Mexican Futbol history for my new art show “FUTBOL! FUTBOL!! FUTBOL!!!” opening in July at La Luz de Jesus Gallery ! The theme is my torrid, scandalous, forbidden love affair with the World Cup—a fever dream of tears, glory, bad haircuts, devils, miracle goals, questionable mascots, and characters so unhinged they could only exist in banned telenovelas. Spicy sneak peeks incoming until kickoff…
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El famoso y hermoso patito mexicano mundialista se llama Merlín, tiene 2 años y siempre acompaña a su dueña Carla Gómez, quien sale a vender aguas desde la colonia Doctores hasta la Alameda Central de la #Cdmx
Que orgullo ser mexicano!
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#VivaMexico#mundialdefútbol
#SomosMéxico
#Mexico
#FIFAWorldCup2026
#SeleccionMexicana
David Hockney’s Normandy gardens.
Looking at these palettes, it is hard not to think of Matisse and Derain. A century later, Hockney returns to the Fauvist idea that color need not describe nature to capture it.
Hockney was one of the world’s most successful artists, and could have done anything, anywhere. But his late-life art was laser-focussed on the transient seasonal beauty of the English, particularly Yorkshire countryside, his best works drawn digitally on an IPad.
David Hockney (British Artist, 1937–2026)
"Large Interior, Los Angeles", 1988.
Oil and Ink on cut and pasted Paper on Canvas,
183.5 × 305.4 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Most of the obituaries and tributes to David Hockney will, I imagine, focus primarily on his extraordinary craft and brilliance as an artist. Perhaps they might also mention his brilliance as a communicator (he was such a fine writer and speaker).
But there was something else rather unique about him too. He was also strikingly honest about the tricks/techniques artists use and used to paint. His book Secret Knowledge is a rather wonderful detective work into how renaissance and Dutch golden age painters used glass and mirrors to help them master perspective.
It's a pretty compelling case (see this video clip from a BBC doc he made alongside the book👇) though I'm sure some art historians will raise their eyebrows. Many will be aghast at the notion that greats like Vermeer might have been using lenses and camera obscuras to help them draw and paint. As if it were in some way "cheating". But Hockney was so self-evidently brilliant he was one of the few people who could document this without anyone gainsaying his own talent.
There are very few artists, living or dead, who have this degree of self-confidence. Not just to know their craft, but to be bracingly honest about how it works. One other who comes to mind is Paul Simon: not just an extraordinary musician but is also an extraordinary communicator about the tricks and techniques of how to write and perform music.
For many great artists, the temptation is to cloak their crafts in mystery, like a member of the magic circle. Hockney wasn't having any of it. So yes, he was a legend in all the obvious ways. But also in a few other less obvious ways as well. RIP.
Desde el Museo Guggenheim Bilbao dedicamos un sentido homenaje a David Hockney, un artista rebelde y esencial que ha dejado una enorme huella en el arte de nuestro tiempo.
Gracias, Maestro.
Exclusive BTS: Today, Netflix releases 'I Am Frankelda,' the first feature-length stop-motion film produced entirely in Mexico.
We spoke with Cinema Fantasma founders Arturo and Roy Ambriz about the journey that brought the film to the screen.
https://t.co/CiWfnTTuYm
Today is the day!!! I am Frankelda is now on Netflix worldwide💙❤️this movie is dedicated to all the artist that feel like their work is not valid in any way. Our souls are made out of ink, and as long as we keep on existing we will keep creating
"We wanted to prove them wrong."
The brothers were told that Mexican audiences didn't want films like 'I Am Frankelda.' Instead of scaling back, they turned a planned TV special into a feature and made history. https://t.co/CiWfnTTuYm
I AM FRANKELDA, Mexico's first stop-motion feature, is now on Netflix! From directors Arturo and Roy Ambriz, protégés of Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro.
In 19th-century Mexico, a gifted writer journeys into her subconscious to face the monsters she’s created...