The art world lost one of its brightest voices this week with the passing of British artist David Hockney, who died peacefully at home on June 11, 2026 at the age of 88.
Over a career spanning more than seven decades, Hockney transformed the everyday into something extraordinary. From his iconic California swimming poolsand intimate portraits to his vibrant Yorkshire landscapes and groundbreaking iPad drawings, his work celebrated the joy of looking closely at the world around us.
Deeply enmeshed with his hometown, Alex Israel (b. 1982) explores how popular media and Hollywood are central to the Los Angeles interpretation of the American Dream and the nuclear family. Created specifically for the Jewish Museum, the work reflects on the prominence of portraits of mothers throughout the museum collection. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Self Portrait (Mom) By Alex Israel→
In an effort to create an anonymous Self-Portrait (1923), artist Charles Sheeler (1883 – 1965) portrays himself as a barely perceptible, shadowy presents, reflected in a window left of center. Positioned in front of him is a telephone, a modern technology at the time, rendered with meticulous detail emphasizing its sleek, industrial design, which functions is a substitute or surrogate self. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Charles Sheeler, Self Portrait→
For Me as Warhol in Drag with Scar (2010) Gillian Wearing combined elements from two famous photo shoots of artist Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987): a 1981image of the artist in drag by Christopher Makos, and a visceral 1968 shot by Richard Avedon of Warhol displaying the freshly healed wounds to his torso resulting from a recent attempt on his life Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Gillian Wearing, Me as Warhol in Drag with Scar→
Raqib Shaw (b. 1974) uses the creative process to tell his personal story, raising questions around the construct of identity. The imagined setting of The Final Submission in Fire on Ice (2021), a self-portrait, combines elements of the artist’s London studio, and the landscape of his childhood home in Kashmir, India, from where he was uprooted as a teenager due to political unrest. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Raqib Shaw,The Final Submission in Fire on Ice→
