David Hockney wants to paint 1,000 portraits

David Hockney doesnt do things by half. The industrious artist tells the Serpentine gallery supremo Hans Ulrich Obrist that he wants to paint 1,000 portraits of his friends and family. With 82 portraits (and one still-life) by Hockney now on show at Londons Royal Academy of Arts (until 2 October), there's plenty of scope for a bigger show in the future. The interview in Obrists new book, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects, which is published by Penguin, included a note of s