The Latest Breaking News from David Hockney

Plus splashy colourful paintings, Korean colour pencil drawings and Yoko Ono’s huge retrospective – all in your weekly dispatch

As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

Abstract painter hopes to inspire young people with fine art after government cuts made it the ‘preserve of the elite’

From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius

Julian Spalding says work by artists such as David Hockney could hang alongside old masters in bicentenary year

From his preppy boyband looks to turning into a bona fide fashion boy, the Golden singer has come a long way

The 1965 work, California, is being sold after being kept in the same private collection since 1968

US lawyers approached about a class action against Midjourney and other AI firms accused of ‘copyright laundering’

Art school contemporary of David Hockney shunned self-promotion but is now subject of retrospective

The Luna Luna fairground, which first opened in Germany in 1987, has been resurrected by Drake in Los Angeles after decades forgotten in shipping containers. Kevin EG Perry explores a magical exhibition featuring playful, immersive work from some of the greatest artists of the 20th century

On the sixtieth anniversary of David Hockney introducing the swimming pool into his painting California Art Collector (1964), we look at the enduring role of the swimming pool in art and culture