(As far as school, I'm referring to
photos of students celebrating or them learning in action — not selfies, because I'm not sure there's ever a need for those kind of school tweets.)
It contains neatly mounted
photos of grad
students and postdocs
celebrating holidays, lab retreats, and the first two quintennial lab reunions he's hosted.
Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film
of Brian Friel's
celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose
photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory
of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town
of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy
student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story
of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail
of the kidnapper
of a computer genius.
Photo: Richard Schmidt) As we make the journey through Hockney's oeuvre — one that the artist has also clearly enjoyed revisiting — we move from his formative pictures as a
student at the Royal College
of Art in London, through to the breakthrough Los Angeles paintings — typified by A Bigger Splash (Hockney first moved to the Hollywood Hills in 1979)-- to the first big room
of the show: a stunning display that reunites Hockney's
celebrated series
of large double portraits.