An unrepentant lifetime smoker, David Hockney, 87, wheezes from respiratory difficulties. He sleeps during some of the day and is watched over by round-the-clock nurses. His deafness, the first signs ...

Ever since I began painting a few years ago I have seen other artists differently. I have lived as a sculpture for more than two decades and used my body as a canvas. When I picked up a brush my way ...

The artist is 87 now and under constant medical care. But he was determined to make it to Paris for the exhibition of his life. David Hockney in 1987 at his home in Los Angeles, Calif. This month ...