David Hockney the Order of Merit, an honour restricted to 24 members at any one time for their contributions to the arts and sciences. He was a Distinguished Honoree of the National Arts Association, Los Angeles, in 1991 and received the First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of American Art, Los Angeles, in 1993. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, New York in 1992 and was given a Foreign Honorary Membership to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. In 2003, Hockney was awarded the
Group 24 Group 24 Group 24 is a Tajik opposition movement based predominantly abroad due to repressions inside Tajikistan. The movement was founded in Moscow in 2012 by Tajik businessman and politician Umarali Quvvatov after he left Tajikistan. Group 24 opposes the rule of the Tajik president Emomali Rahmon, accusing him of corruption and nepotism. In early October 2014, Group leader Quvvatov called for peaceful protests to be held in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on 10 October 2014. The chances for mass protests were estimated as low by analysts who pointed at political apathy in Tajikistan and the widespread idea that protest