http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:07:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's the last gasp of the Gilbert & George exhibition at Milwaukee Art Museum, and my farewell to the blogosphere. Thank you to anyone and everyone that read these posts, and thanks even more to those people who chose to respond. I have been privileged to run this space for ... http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog/2008/09/last-orders/ One strong element of G&G’s work evident in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s current exhibition is their use of the mirror image. This has existed in their work at least since the nineteen-eighties, beginning perhaps with their own repeated and similar gestures, and then becoming a photographic device to create strange ... http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog/2008/08/make-mine-a-double/ In a recent talk on ‘Scandal and Art’ at the Milwaukee Art Museum I described Gilbert & George as heroes of the genre - if scandal can be called a genre. From early in their career, their work was regarded as too ‘strong’ for some tastes. The ‘Magazine Sculpture’ was ... http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog/2008/08/bad-thoughts-dirty-words-modern-rubbish/ Before Gilbert & George there were almost no artist collaborators. After them, there have been a few more, but perhaps none who work so closely together or for such an extended length of time. Often, art is thought of as a particularly solitary occupation; the single-minded imagination of an individual ... http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog/2008/07/two-men-one-artist/ One critique of the Gilbert & George exhibition has been that it doesn’t speak to women. Is this sexism? As I mentioned in my last posting, the history of art is full of sex – mostly heterosexual and mostly created from a male point of view. It is only very recently ... http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog/2008/07/sex-and-gender/ Looking at a few of the visitors' reponses to the G&G show makes it clear how their work generates strong feelings, although these feelings are often quite different, even opposite! The occasional comment deprecates MAM for supporting them and their ideas, yet a few visitors congratulate the gallery for bringing ... http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog/2008/07/visitors-responses-to-gilbert-george/ Hello, I'm Simon Anderson and I look forward to this, my first experience in blogging. I think it highly appropriate that Gilbert & George should ease my entry into the blogosphere as they helped introduce me into the realm of contemporary art. Their early performance 'The Singing Sculpture' also known as ... http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog/2008/06/hello-bloggosphere/ 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 ... http://www.mam.org/gandg/blog/2008/05/gilbert-george-blog-introduction/