Gilbert and George are not backing down. After spending half a century as outsiders in liberal London, there wouldn’t be much point. Conservative, anti woke, pro Brexit, they have somehow attained the niche position of being both the London art world’s enfants terrible and its grande dames. Now they have opened their own gallery, a move which further cements their position in the capital’s art establishment and at the same time, in their trademark style, rebels against it.

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