2006

Retrospective exhibition of paintings curated by Enrique Juncosa and Nicholas Serota starts at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, where it is opened by Seamus Heaney. It then tours to Tate Britain, London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. The catalogue, edited by Nicholas Serota, includes an essay by James Meyer, notes on painting processes and materials, a chronology and bibliography. At Tate Hodgkin has the walls painted with thin layers of blue, yellow and brown and in the final rooms the walls are covered with sheets of gold paper.

‘Writers on Howard Hodgkin’ published by Irish Museum of Modern Art and Tate Publishing features new essays by Colm Tóibín and Enrique Juncosa and reprints essays by Bruce Chatwin, Julian Barnes, Susan Sontag, William Boyd and James Fenton.

Barbican Art Gallery starts a tour of selected prints at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, which goes to Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Winchester Discovery Centre; Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Manchester and PM Gallery, Ealing, London. David Acton, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at Worcester Art Museum, Mass. writes in the catalogue. Barbican International Enterprises plan further tours for the exhibition, which has been seen by over 54,000 people.

Designs backcloths for Mark Morris Dance Group’s ‘Mozart Dances’, which opens at Lincoln Center, New York and then tours to Vienna, London, Chicago, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Toronto, Aukland, Washingon, Seattle, Montpellier, Tel Aviv and Boston.