“Why is everything now geared to longevity?” [David Hockney] asks. “If everything’s directed at longevity, you’re denying life.” He approves of a remark that the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson made at the age of 93: …

A comprehensive survey of work by British artist Richard Deacon opens at Tate Britain this February. He was the subject of a recent interview with Martin Gayford in the Telegraph, where he describes what …