Went to see the Hockney exhibit and got so much more. This place is awesome – three floors and a downstairs with Liv’s Cafe and a sculpture garden.

There are Jean Arp and Henry Moore sculptures, a Diego Rivera painting.

Andy Warhol’s vision of spring attire and an early work by Tony Berlant. I add Tony here because I went to High school with him. He was always arty – but who knew? I show his work with Warhol’s because Tony was part of Warhol’s New York scene in the 1960s.

This large plate is made of crushed tin cans.. The couple on the right – they are sculptures. I stopped to speak with them – sooooo real!!!

So much of Hockney’s early works – before what we are most familiar with – swimming pools, yards, buildings – sharp lines. David Hockney – an English painter, photographer, printmaker, stage designer and a draughtsman. He sounds like a Renaissance Man to me.

The Other Thing – Topped off our day with a delightful lunch with our La Quinta friends at the Hideout Kitchen + Bar at the Gardens on El Paseo.