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This vintage David Hockney poster features whimsical imagery and rich, bright color. Palm trees, boats in the ocean, a cafe, and a bodega with an elaborate iron-wrought balcony sit atop a crosshatched orange ground. In 1980, Miami hosted what the New York Times called “one of the world’s more ambitious, more expensive and surely one of the riskiest arts festivals of all time.” The New World Festival for the Arts ran for three weeks, from June 4 to 26, and put on 200 live performances of contemporary drama, opera, music and dance. Featured on the poster for the Festival is David Hockney’s 1980 crayon drawing “Detail from the Zanzibar with Postcards and Kiosk,” which pictured one of his set designs for the Poulenc opera “Les Mamelles de Tiresias”. At the bottom of the poster, black text printed in a serif font reads: The New World Festival of the Arts, Musical Theatre, Film, Ballet, Dance, Music, Drama, Opera, Painting, Design, Sculpture, Greater Miami and the Beaches June 1982.
