Letter of the week: The stories we tell

Andrew Marr warns against the West ’s cultural severing from modern Russia ( The NS Essay , 11 April ) I believe, for me, it was 2022 , when British cinemas showed the Finno-Russian Compartment No 6.

If Marr still misses eastern European cultural output, he need not look further than Ukraine .

Michael Prodger thinks Hockney was too involved in the selection of his works for the new retrospective in Paris .

But let ’s enjoy this exhibition for what it is his personal choice of the works on display.

It would be of great interest to know which of their own works artists such as Van Gogh or Titian or Turner would have selected for a retrospective.