The Top Art Books to Read this Spring
14 April 2025 • Tabish Khan
Communists, Leigh Bowery, a great wave, female artists, seeing like artists, the YBAs and lots of rocks.
Tag: Gilbert & George
‘THE CORPSING PICTURES’ are Gilbert & George’s most profoundly personal and confrontational works to date
24 March 2023 • Mark Westall
White Cube is pleased to announce an exhibition of ‘THE CORPSING PICTURES’ at Mason’s Yard, ahead of the unveiling of The Gilbert & George Centre in Spitalfields, East London.
The Gilbert & George Centre opens April 1st
24 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Our art is the friendship formed between the viewer and the pictures – Gilbert & George We want our art… Read More
The New Old Normal Value and Ideas #104
15 July 2021 • daniel barnes
It was on a warm August morning back in 2014, sitting in a curry house in a side street off Brick Lane, when Gilbert told me he had been at Wembley for the 1966 World Cup Final.
New Gilbert & George exhibition slated for March
19 February 2021 • Mark Westall
White Cube is to present the ‘NEW NORMAL PICTURES’ by Gilbert & George. This major exhibition brings together 26 new pictures described by the artists as ‘celebratory, crazed and super-modern’.
An extraordinary group of pictures by famed British artists Gilbert & George to be exhibited together for the first time
1 October 2020 • Mark Westall
Ben Brown Fine Arts is to present an extraordinary group of pictures by famed British artists Gilbert & George at the London gallery, exhibited together for the first time from a prominent private collection. After meeting at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967, Gilbert & George have been creating art together ever since, fully integrating all aspects of their lives into their art, making themselves ‘living sculptures’.
Gilbert & George and the Circus in Bermondsey
20 December 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paz Errázuriz: ‘Miss Piggy II, Santiago’, 1984 It’s a circus in Bermondsey this Christmas. You expect that of Gilbert and… Read More
Gilbert & George to turn 19th century brewery into an art gallery
14 November 2017 • Mark Westall
Gilbert & George are converting a 19th-century brewery in London’s Spitalfields into their own public gallery.
New exhibition at White Cube to celebrate 50 years of Gilbert & George
30 October 2017 • Mark Westall
White Cube are to celebrate 50 years of the art of Gilbert & George with a new exhibition: ‘THE BEARD PICTURES AND THEIR FUCKOSOPHY’
Monumental Gilbert & George art work coming to Lévy Gorvy London
27 July 2017 • Mark Westall
Gilbert & George are showing The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting which is comprised of twenty-three monumental, multi-panel pieces.
Don’t Miss: Art On a Postcard’s secret auction.
14 October 2016 • Mark Westall
International household names including Grayson Perry, Maggie Hambling, Oliver Jeffers, Peter Blake, Harland Miller, Gilbert & George and a host of Royal Academicians such as Ken Howard RA, Mick Rooney RA, John Wragg RA, Rebecca Salter RA, Paul Huxley RA and Steven Farthing RA, as well as emerging talent are within the 400 plus postcard sized artworks up for auction.
A Curated List of The Best Art Events to see in London this week
8 December 2015 • Staff
What are the art events to visit this week? We ask Jenny Judova from Art Map London to tell us …
Gilbert and George Banners review – art as undeniable as a punch in the face
26 November 2015 • Mark Westall
White Cube, London
For their eight-millionth exhibition, the naughty boys of art are showing Banners that could be slight and trite – but actually turn out to be nasty prophecies for our dreadful age
Art On A Postcard returns for a second year with Julian Opie, David Shrigley & Sir Peter Blake
28 October 2015 • Mark Westall
This year the artworks will be available to view online from 15th October, at The Auction Room, an online auction site specialising in collectible works of art.
REVIEW: History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain – the ultimate Blue Peter time capsule
15 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Hayward Gallery, London
From flak jackets to flotsam to Farrow & Ball, seven artists curate an inspired cultural history of postwar Britain
Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession
28 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary, Margate
From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the glorious
ART STUFF on a train # 73: ’Red and Black and Women’
17 September 2014 • Paul Carey-Kent
It would be hard to call it a face-off, but..
REVIEW: Gilbert & George SCAPEGOATING PICTURES for London @_WhiteCube
28 July 2014 • Mark Westall
Gilbert and George are like the Rolling Stones of the Artworld. Familiar riffs and styles that can only be them.
ART OPENING: Gilbert & George SCAPEGOATING PICTURES for London @_WhiteCube Thursday 17th July 2014
17 July 2014 • Mark Westall
NEW Gilbert & George exhibition ..
Glam The Performance of Style @Tate Liverpool
5 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The Glam era of the early 1970s is to be critically evaluated for the first time in an ambitious new exhibition at Tate Liverpool.
Gilbert & George works to be used in Jean Abreu dance show
7 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brazilian choreographer and performer will use 25 images as visual backdrop in Blood show touring UK
Read all about it: how Gilbert & George stole the headlines and made art
8 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Urbane artistic pair pilfered 3,712 newspaper bills from outside London shops to create works now on show at White Cube galleries
Gilbert&George London Pictures at White Cube Hoxton Square+Bermondsey+Masons Yard Opens tonight
8 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Gilbert &George London Pictures
jotta launch Editions Space with Central Saint Martins MAFA 2011
7 November 2011 • Mark Westall
The programme is curated by jotta, and displays artwork specifically commissioned and produced by jotta, offering a supplement piece that complements the graduating artists practice.