Fondation Louis Vuitton Makes a Big Splash with David Hockney’s Largest Exhibition Ever

On Wednesday, April 2, David Hockney told The Independent that the poster of his Parisian exhibition, David Hockney 25, had been removed from the Parisian metros because of the presence of a cigarette. Mediatransports, the advertising authority of Publicis responsible for advertising in public transports, explained to the artist that the poster violated French legislation, which prohibited any form of direct or indirect advertising for tobacco-r…

Fondation Louis Vuitton Makes a Big Splash with David Hockney’s Largest Exhibition Ever

“Do Remember They Can’t Cancel the Spring,” artist David Hockney told the world in March 2020, just as lockdown for the Covid-19 pandemic began. That sentiment was in full swing, in the early days of spring now five years later, throughout the artist’s just-opened survey at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (on view through August 31). Spanning all four floors of the museum, the current exhibition is the largest ever devoted to the British ar…