The Financial Times3d
Gilbert & George and the Communists — mischief in Moscow and Beijing
The title was somewhat misleading: the elderly and ailing Bacon didn’t get to Moscow even if his paintings did. Birch’s follow-up, Gilbert & George and the Communists, doubles down on his ...
When Brit art world provocateurs Gilbert & George visited China
It was the early 1990s, the mainland was opening up, and coming in hot were the 2 biggest troublemakers in British art. The ...
The Art Newspaper6d
‘I thought I would be trampled to death’: travelling with Gilbert & George to put on a show in 1990s Beijing
The adventures of the British artist duo Gilbert & George in Communist Russia and China are detailed in a new publication by the art dealer James Birch (with the journalist Michael Hodges).