What was it like working with David Hockney?
“Indeed, much of the responsibility for the novel claims recorded in this book should surely rest with Falco… Just as Hockney was beginning to put together this wide-ranging book, and the experts were providing more scholarly and practical caveats, the optical scientist, Falco, made his dramatic entrance…. agog with Falco, Hockney hares off to find other askew tablecloths.” Bernard Sharratt The New York Times Book Review December 23, 2001 “But Hockney shows all the signs of being a coddled celebrity whose every apercu is treated reverently by those flattered to earn his attention. He seems to have no one strong or trusted enough who could sift his intriguing insights from his banalities.” Richard B. Woodward The Weekly Standard December 31, 2001 The above two assertions about our presumed working relationship couldn’t be more disparate. Sharratt portrays a naive artist “agog” with the calculations done by a scientist, while instead Woodward portrays a star-struck scientist in the t
