Arts and Culture Writer

Richard Woodward

1 article 2001

Richard Woodward is a cultural critic and arts writer. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2001, writing about David Hockney's theories on art and optics.

Hockney'd Ideas

December 31, 2001 · Magazine, Books and Arts

Secret Knowledge Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney Viking, 296 pp., $60 WHEN David Hockney shared his hunches about optics and art history with the New Yorker nearly two years ago --which reported them with some (but not enough) skepticism--did he imagine the…