I love David Hockney, but Secret Knowledge is an extraordinary work that I’d recommend to everyone regardless of their interest in art criticism. Most people fr

I love David Hockney, but Secret Knowledge is an extraordinary work that I’d recommend to everyone regardless of their interest in art criticism. Most people frame the work as using science to comment about art criticism but I think that’s backwards. Hockney, instead, uses the program of art criticism to evaluate scientific discovery (and progress). By the end I felt that science became slightly more humane.