It was in another century—another millennium even—that I saw "Espace/Paysage", an exhibition of paintings by David Hockney (1937-2026) at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris that ran from 27 January to 26 April 1999. In my memory are large landscape paintings full of vivid colors and made up of many smaller canvases so that the images are expansive and fragmented at the same time. Later that year, I wrote an essay on that exhibition and a Gerhard Richter exhibition I had seen in Hannover in late 1999, so I can now recall that those large landscapes were "A Bigger Grand Canyon" and the even bigger "A Closer Grand Canyon". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 12 June 2026)