(Now known as Poolsuite, but to me will always remain Poolside.)

As the folks at Christie’s are delighted to point out, it marks the only time Hockney combined two of his most popular subjects: a swimming pool, that is, in the context of a double portrait. For indeed, swimming pools had transfixed Hockney ever since he first arrived (out of cold grey Northern England) in sunny Los Angeles, in 1964, and, as with so much else about LA, the young artist began seeing, as if for the first time, the artistic potential in things which everyone else in the Southland had been taking for granted.

In the early 1980s in Japan, a movement called mini-FM blossomed: a thousand tiny radio stations broadcast over just half a mile each.

One of the first stations was Radio Home Run, broadcast by Tetsuo Kogawa and his students from 1983–1996 in the Shimokitazawa neighbourhood of Tokyo.

...The intention was to change broadcast: The area that a one-watt transmitter covers is within walking or bicycling distance.

And so that early station Radio Home Run became a collective experience:

Radio Home Run transformed listeners into producers by inviting people tuning in to physically travel to the station’s nearby studio.