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Jacques invited [David Hockney] to curate the show after the artists Cindy Sherman and Catherine Opie curated [Robert Mapplethorpe] exhibitions for galleries in New York and Los Angeles in 2003 and 2004. "I read an interview Hockney did on Andy Warhol's stitched photographs and thought to myself how brilliant it would be to have David's eye on Mapplethorpe," says Jacques. Sherman and Opie never knew Mapplethorpe, but Hockney did.
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Boys On Film
David Hockney, one of the most popular and influential living artists, takes a keen interest in how his own work has been presented in the hundreds of exhibitions and dozens of books that have documented his 45-year career. And now he has put on a new hat - that of curator - in an exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe at the Alison Jacques Gallery in London.
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