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 ...
It was the early 1990s, the mainland was opening up, and coming in hot were the 2 biggest troublemakers in British art. The man who got them there tells all in his new book What do you do when you're ...
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).