David Hockney’s been making a big splash since the 1960s, and now this most iconic of British painters is getting a long overdue, and totally massive, retrospective.
It's easy to forget how lucky we are to live in a city with such an incredible art calendar. But when you lay it out and really see what we have to look forward to, it's a little overwhelming, isn't it? There are retrospectives looking at artists who changed the shape of art forever (Hockney, Johns, Basquiat, Paolozzi, Cezanne), historical explorations (revolutionary Russia, Flemish painting), contemporary giants (Whiteread, Tillmans) and – a real relief after the relatively one-sided man-desert of 2016 – a fantastic spread of amazing female artists.
This list not only shows the luxury of choice we have to look forward to, but it's enough to get anyone properly and seriously excited for 2017.
