David Hockney’s who’s who opens at the Royal Academy

Eighty-two portraits of friends and acquaintances, all in the same format with blue or turquoise backgrounds, comprise the majority of David Hockneys latest exhibition at Londons Royal Academy of Arts (RA), which opens in July.
The acrylic-on-canvas paintings, which will be hung chronologically, will allow visitors to see how the series developed from 2014 until this spring, when it was completed. Among those depicted are art world figures such as John Baldessari, Larry Gagosian, Benedikt Tasche