Suzy Menkes: a gaucho stride at Givenchy Oct 3, 2008
The result was a robust show with a sexy energy - but also with kids in mind, from the vibrant backdrop painted for the show by McCartney's artist friends Jake and Dinos Chapman; to a box of Caran d'Ache crayons on each seat; to McCartney herself juggling her three children in her arms backstage. "We are all body conscious," proclaimed McCartney, which is just as well if she planned to wear some of her creations, like overalls plunging to the navel at the front, with just a wisp of sequined... (International Herald Tribune)
Painting prize shortlist revealed Jul 25, 2008
He is joined on this year's judging panel by fellow former prize winner Paul Morrison, artists Jake and Dinos Chapman and art critic Sacha Craddock. The winner will be announced on 20 September. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Islam is off-limits for us, say brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman May 31, 2008
Desperate to flaunt their "bravery" with their controversial depictions of Jews suffering in concentration camps and highly sexualised images of children, the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman have admitted to Mandrake that there is one subject area that remains off-limits. Jake says they would not be prepared to touch Islam. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Hitler gets Chapman treatment May 30, 2008
An installation by artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, entitled 'Fucking Hell', is seen during the inauguration of their new exhibition 'If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be ... Five years ago the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman were labelled vandals for defacing a set of Goya prints. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
ArtsDiary: Provocative wedding for Moss May 7, 2008
Kate Moss has tied the knot - with the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman acting as vicars. Moss's fictional nuptials are the subject of a six-part experimental film series by the photographer and music video director Nick Knight, to launch the new bridal range from lingerie company Agent Provocateur. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Can you do me a quick cow's head? Mar 5, 2008
He admits that, over the years, some of his clients - Rachel Whiteread, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk, Keith Tyson, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mark Wallinger - have been sensitive about publicising the fact that he makes works for them. "In a way, it's more to do with the demands being made upon them, and the nature of the art world," he says. (Guardian Unlimited)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
The signatories also include artists Sir Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk and Mark Wallinger. The leaders of some of Britain's most important galleries have also signed, including the Tate's Sir Nicholas Serota, Stephen Deuchar of Tate Britain, and Sir Norman Rosenthal and Charles Saumarez Smith of the Royal Academy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Think modern art is a bit of a joke? Dec 31, 2007
It includes new work by Jake and Dinos Chapman, responsible for some of the blackest jokes in British art, such as the copulating blow-up sex dolls cast in bronze, in their Turner prize show, and their genuine Goya prints defaced with cartoon heads. The Hayward is serious about the exhibition, the first of its kind in the UK, titled Laughing in a Foreign Language. (Guardian Unlimited)
Lucas In New Big Brother - Who Else Is On Board? Dec 22, 2007
Other stars that have signed up include artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, art critic Brian Sewell, and Bo' Selecta. character Keith Lemon. (Sky News)
Tenner for your thoughts, Dinos? Oct 11, 2007
" writes Bethan Huws, on one of those office messageboards with clip-on letters, which hangs on the wall of the Yvon Lambert stand at the Frieze art fair. Her plea is likely to go unheard. Signalling artistic frustration at those pesky know-nothing collectors who insist on buying things they don't understand, Huws - whose work is better known for its quietism, its lyrical quality - is a voice in the wilderness. And anyway, someone has probably bought the message by now. Frieze opens to the... (Guardian Unlimited)
Germaine Greer Oct 8, 2007
Sam Taylor-Wood is everywhere, despite losing to Chris Ofili in 1998, and the career of Jake and Dinos Chapman seems unaffected by their eclipse in 2003 by Grayson Perry. The retrospective would be a better show if it included some of the most talented losers, artists such as Helen Chadwick, Mona Hatoum, Cornelia Parker, Richard Wilson, Derek Jarman and Tacita Dean, whose work is far more interesting than that of most Turner prize winners. (Guardian Unlimited)
The art of war Jul 15, 2007
Jake and Dinos Chapman do a take off of Goya's series of "Disasters of War" etchings, saying in an exhibit sign that while they are "intensely pessimistic about the job of being an artist and about what art does socially . . . our cynicism translates into humour.". There is also the saving grace of teenagers. (Boston Globe)
Tony Blair appears at the Royal Academy of Art - in the nude Jun 5, 2007
This year sees the space taken over by three eight-metre steel dinosaurs, created by English conceptual artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. Their installation, entitled The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth But Not The Mineral Rights, can be seen until 19 August, 2007, when the exhibition draws to a close. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
More of this story May 30, 2007
As though emphasizing the universality of suffering, Tang wrote in Spanish and in English for The Disasters of War, etchings by Dinos Chapman and Jake Chapman, inspired by Goya s work of the same name. How many more of us do we need to die. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
In two exhibits, politics and war are held up for scrutiny May 16, 2007
Particularly unfortunate is the pairing of Goya's series with an etching series that mimics it by the English bad-boy team of Jake and Dinos Chapman. Some of the Chapmans' s prints look like respectful homages, but many are crude, juvenile parodies, and the viewer is confused as to exactly what the artists mean to say. (Boston Globe)
MFA has new take on the art of war Apr 8, 2007
"War and Discontent," a new exhibit that opens Tuesday at the Museum of Fine Arts, features an array of the institution's war-themed work: douard Manet's "Execution of the Emperor Maximilian ," selections from Goya's early 19th-century "Disasters of War" series, and the 1999 piece of the same name by brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman , for instance. Also in the show are works by Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring , and Andy Warhol. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Beijing finally embraces modern British art Mar 20, 2007
Ubermensch by Jake and Dinos Chapman, a sculpture depicting physicist Stephen Hawking on top of a cliff, which is on display at the Capital Museum, Beijing. Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
- Mark Ravenhill: Should toddlers be at a Chapman Brothers show? Jan 22, 2007
But visiting the Jake and Dinos Chapman retrospective at Tate Liverpool, I was shocked by both the work itself and the response of many of the people visiting the exhibition. "Look at what the soldiers are doing," said one parent, holding a toddler up to see. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bears against bombs Jan 16, 2007
Jake and Dinos Chapman. Still stomach-churning, childish, brutal and funny. (Guardian Unlimited)
