Gilbert and George revolutionized Simon Anderson’s world while he was a student in London during the 1980s. Their raw examination of human experience boldly confronted him with social and public issues.  

Now Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Anderson continues his fascination with art made to draw people out of the box and beyond the walls of the Museum.  

Anderson received his MA and PhD from the Royal College of Art in 1988, he has spoken on radical American art in 1968 and taught a course entitled “… and then they called the Police”.  Simon Anderson held a public conversation with Gilbert & George in Chicago in 1999.  It’s now time to pick up the conversation were they left off.   

Don’t miss Simon Anderson when he takes the blog conversation live and talks at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Art and Scandal: Bad Thoughts, Dirty Words, Modern Rubbish THURSDAY, JULY 31, 6:15PM.