Members Preview: A Conversation with Gilbert & George

A conversation with the artists Gilbert & George and Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman at the Members Preview and Reception held on October 2, 2008. Full conversation at http://vimeo.com/2045432

The Brooklyn Museum is the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of work by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. The exhibition comprises more than eighty pictures created since 1970, among them more than a dozen that are only in the Brooklyn presentation. The exhibition traces their stylistic and emotional evolution through their pictures and art in other media, ranging from charcoal on paper sculpture from the early 1970s to postcard pieces to ephemera dating back to the 1960s.

Gilbert & George
October 3, 2008January 11, 2009
Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/gilbert_and_george/

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[blackberryjuice1]

It's their persona. Read the plaque in the stairwell that explains the "Role and Rules for the Artist". Yeah, they never give up the schtick, for them life is art is life. I wonder if they're ever, like, normal?

[afterdarknyc]

Umm, why is George totally frozen after he answered the question?