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From: art reviews Category: Art Date: 14 February 2007 Time: 03:45 PM Review: Gilbert and George. Don't ya love them. The members were there today, they deigned to let in one of the interenetpress to disturb their connection to their walkman DVD players which tell them what to think about the difficult art. Gilbert and George. I want to love them. I like blasphemy, and graffiti, and poos, and exposing yourself, and outsiders, and living in the East End. I like the big bright stained glass window photo print collages. I find their manifesto from the 80s, printed on the wall outside the show, better than the horrible art history timelines the Tate puts up, but in its sentiments of art for all, and the soul, patronising and silly. Perhaps it's meant to be. Gilbert and George. I look at the same thing over and over again, with somewhat different content, and I am bored. That's it. I, a person who is meant to ignore aesthetics and appreciate ideas, finds the agenda flimsy. Who really is going to be provoked to grand thought by these attractive posters? And if you keep doing the same thing, people stop looking at it carefully. The early drawings please, not just because they exhibit the hand-made, but because they're different, and let you think again. Gilbert and George. Insiders and tedious.