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 comes two days after a Tajik court sentenced another member of Group 24 to 17 years in prison for attempting to seize power and insulting the president. President Rahmon's opponents have accused Tajik authorities of orcherstrating the assassination. Following Quvvatov's death, the group elected Sharofiddin Gadoev as its new leader. After passing for almost one year on 31 January 2016 political committee of Group 24 hold its annual meeting. For progresing political activities of Group 24 the committee decided to do some inter staff changing. The committee elected Suhrob Zafar as head of political movement Group 24 and Khuseyn Ashurov