Keith Haring 🫶🏻

Remembering the brilliant David Hockney through his intimate illustrations of C.P. Cavafy’s poetry. 🖤 Like so many of us, Hockney found a companion in Cavafy. Enchanted by the Alexandrian poet’s tender accounts of love between men, in 1966, he transformed fourteen poems into a series of drawings that remain among the most beautiful visual tributes to queer longing ever made.

Thank you for being so great. Farewell, David Hockney.

We are interested in drawing as an embodied skill, by which we mean something learned through the hand, the eye, repeated attention and correction. Each line of the page is part of a cultural record of observing. We are here to preserve and expand the conditions that make images feel alive.

Albrecht Dürer, Studies of a Tree Bullfinch, c.1500