The flamboyant Gilbert & George retrospective opened this weekend at San Francisco’s de Young Museum with a ripping party in the museum’s gorgeous Golden Gate Park facility. Gilbert & George is the largest retrospective ever organized by the Tate Modern in London. The de Young Museum is the first venue in a tour that will visit San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Brooklyn. If your family likes very large images of turd crosses and uncircumcised penises, this is a great show for you! Mind boggling on a technical level and dazzling on the wall, this large retrospective is a bit like visiting a cathedral, albeit a rather twisted one. I over heard one couple as they left the exhibit say…”why do you want to punish me?”
It was a big, hipster crowd
Jello Biafra from the old Dead Kennedy's did a spoken word intro in front of a gigantic Gerhard Richter piece keeping in the spirit of Seventies and Eighties glam.
G & G feted by a gaggle of trannies.
G & G
Exhibition [turd cross- far wall].
Entrance to the Chagoya exhibit
Enrique Chagoya Borderlandia
BAM/PFA [Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive]
Chagoya has taught printmaking at Stanford University since 1995. His work is included in the collections of many major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Library of Congress Print Collection and the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia is organized by the Des Moines ArtCenter.
