I’ve always had a certain fondness for British conceptual artists Gilbert & George, now the objects of a show at the Brooklyn Museum; concurrently, Creative Time will screen two of their early films (1970’s A Portrait of the Artists As Young Men and 1972’s The Nature of Our Looking) on MTV’s huge HD screen in Times Square.
Gilbert & George’s large stained-glass-like artwork obviously bring to mind antecedents found in churches and cathedrals, except with rather different subject matter. (Semi-naked men can actually be found on church walls, but syringes and excrement…not so much.) But most of all I love the pair’s po-faced eccentricity, the fact that they don’t just make art: They’ve turned their own life into an art project that’s completely consistent with what they exhibit in museums and galleries. read more
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