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Gilbert and George make bid for establishment status
The Britart duo Gilbert and George have built their reputations on producing some of the most outrageous and shocking artworks featuring nudity, images of sexual acts and using bodily fluids including urine and semen. But today, they insisted they were not ‘anti-establishment’ as they revealed their latest series of pictures in which they celebrate ‘Britishness’.
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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS
Eva Rothschild (Tate Britain, London)
Geometry and chaos: the dynamic sculptor fills almost the whole length of the central Duveen galleries with ‘Cold Corners’, a single work 70-metres long. (020-7887 8888) to 29 Nov
Jeremy Moon
(Rocket Gallery, London)
Garden & Cosmos
(British Museum, London)
Beuys Is Here
(De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea)
The German artist who wanted art to change the world, and left a legacy of heavy beauty.
(01424 229111) 4 Jul to 27 Sept
Thomas Bewick
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Whole microscopic worlds, crammed with trees, animals, birds, people and weather: the vignettes of the 18th-century wood-engraver and naturalist.
(0191-232 6789) to 18 Oct