David Hockney, one of the UK's greatest painters, has made a dramatic intervention to try to stop plans to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK over fears it could be irreparably damaged. The priceless ...

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But writing exclusively in The Independent, Hockney has lambasted the plan, describing the proposal to move the fragile, 1,000-year-old artefact as “madness” and “too big a risk” to take. “The 58 ...

“The 58 narrative scenes have been observed in Bayeux for nearly a millennium,” he wrote, adding the tapestry had “survived political upheaval and wars” but now faces an “unnecessary conservation ...

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David Hockney, one of the UK’s greatest painters, has made a dramatic intervention to try to stop a plan to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK, over fears it could be irreparably damaged. The ...