Join us for a day of talks to mark the season launch of Q+ Art with several talks on David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Artists and scholars will offer multiple perspectives on David Hockney, introducing personal accounts, exploring lessons from Art History, and reflecting on Hockney’s influences and points of departure.

Your ticket gives you access to both the full day of programming and admission to Palm Springs Art Museum.

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Program

11:00 a.m.
Annenberg Theater

Stories of David Hockney

Michael Childers in conversation with Steven Biller

Photographer Michael Childers will share photographs of David Hockney. Together with  Palm Springs Life Editor, Steven Biller, the pair will offer personal accounts and insights into the life of David Hockney.

12:00 p.m.
Meyerman Sculpture Garden

Performance and Lunch Break

Experience a performance by violist and drag artist, OBSIDIENNE OBSURD, a multi-hyphenate neo-pretentious decolonial rebel who works in the uncanny and draws inspiration from their Chinese ancestry.

Lunch and refreshments for purchase by Little Livs.

 

1:00 p.m.
Annenberg Theater

LGBTQ+ Art History: David Hockney and Physique Pictorial

Richard Meyer

Art historian Richard Meyer will explore the connection between Hockney’s early work and Physique Pictorial, a monthly, L.A.-based magazine illustrated with photographs of nearly nude musclemen in jocks or posing straps. Richard invites us to look at Physique Pictorial from Hockney’s perspective while imagining how the magazine—and the men who posed for it--might have responded to Hockney’s art in turn.

2:00 p.m.
Annenberg Theater

Looking at Los Angeles

Jay Lynn Gomez in conversation with Laura Gutierrez

Artist Jay Lynn Gomez, in conversation with Latinx and Queer Studies scholar Laura Gutierrez, will revisit Jay’s body of earlier works that use David Hockney's vision of Los Angeles as a point of departure, particularly in relation to Jay’s transgender identity.

David Hockney, 25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed), photographic drawing printed on five sheets of paper, mounted on five sheets of Dibond, edition of 15, 300 x 518 cm (118 x 204 Inches), © David Hockney assisted by Jonathan Wilkinson