Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy
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Gilbert & George, Apostasia (detail), Courtesy Brooklyn Museum
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Oct 3, 2008 – Jan 11, 2009
Wednesdays–Fridays (10am–5pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–6pm)
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- Price
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$8
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The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted themselves gold (a routine since filched by countless street performers the world over), stood on a table, and sang "Underneath the Arches" for hours on end. The Singing Sculpture became an art-historical landmark and bound the two together for life. Magnificent photographic montages followed, including Cherry Blossom Pictures: Finding God, in which the artists arrange stark black-and-white self-portraits around abstract, red-tinted prints. Initially passed off as modern dandies, the two went on to brilliantly tackle the AIDS epidemic, religious guilt, and countless issues of contemporary masculinity.
