Gilbert and George has arrived at Tate Modern (and not at Tate Britain, at their own insistence). They claim that they are, for the period of this exhibition only, ......
... concludes in style with Gerhard Richter’s portrait of Gilbert and George (from 1975), a pair of artists who describe themselves as “a living portrait”, making themse...
... of postcard sites into opera sets; David Hockney’s multiperspective collaged Polaroids. Wondrous those carefully built-up compilations by Gilbert and George; Wolfgang Ti...
... pioneering stuff. Gilbert and George were portraying turds and bum-holes in glorious Technicolor 30 years ago. Her fellow Norwegian Bjarne Melgaard – arguably, Norway’...
The Lives of the Artists: 50 years of Gilbert & George
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the artists’ meeting, we publish Gilbert & George’s Magazine Sculpture,...
... Room IV, however, the objects feel more explicitly spiritual or cultish. Gilbert and George’s Beard Speak, in which two devilish representations of the artistic duo are ...
... Benidorm”). The overall results feel closer to Gilbert and George’s glib, sneering London Pictures (2012) than a coherent statement about the nature of politics and me...
... Spike Milligan, curator Matthew Higgs, the artist’s mother, Mrs Frances Gander, and the Lumière brothers (dressed in brown tweed suits, they could be mistaken for the p...
... exhibitions by, amongst others, Gilbert and George, Anselm Kiefer and Tracy Emin. Despite the enviable improvements and the delicious cafe food, it is the partially hidden...
... of city bankers. But this was no Gilbert and George act: these Futurists were deadly serious, for power, for fame, for supremacy in the cultural domains of Europe. To Fren...
... and personal, one of the most memorable images on show is also one that deals most brilliantly with the subject. The portrait of Gilbert and George(1975) explores the over...
... sculpture court and is entitled 'Photo-Paintings 1968-75'. It contains portraits of Gilbert and George - in Cubist-inspired compositions. There is a seascape - originatin...
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On 27 February 2008 a major announcement was made at Edinburgh's National Gallery of Modern Art. Before the assembled British art luminaries, news was announced of possibly the ...
The British Council has offended over 100 of Britain’s leading artists, including such luminaries as Rachel Whiteread, Peter Blake, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sir Howard Hodgkin, Gilbert&#...
... Newton, David Bailey, Gilbert and George, Gerhard Richter, John Coplans, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marc Quinn and Sam Taylor-Wood.
Among the works from the...
... cursory nod to Vivienne Westwood), and its impact on graphic design.
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There are works by Derek Jarman, Victor Burgin, the COUM Transmissions collective and Joh...
... or prevailing taboos. Gilbert and George seemed to be non grata, and the obese females of Jenny Savile were sadly also not welcome, on the basis that they devalued highly ...
... less weighed down than it was two years ago by a mass of contradictory, theoretical flights. Among the leading contenders are British artists, Gilbert and George, who have...
... ‘Mirrors’ shown at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery. This was after Richter had participated in the 1982 Berlin ‘Zeitgeist’ exhibition, in the company of Baselitz, Be...
Volume 179 Number 922
Contents
194 In the land of my own vision/Henryk Gotlib
196 Gilbert and George/Michael Moynihan
197 Correspondence
198 News and...
