Lurid, provocative, profoundly odd: that’s the nature of Gilbert & George’s exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, which is full of their large and distinctive pictures and mixes up different series ...

Let’s hear it for that great Sixties singing duo whose performances defined an era. No, not Simon & Garfunkel. Though they are similarly aged and had an equally momentous impact on their field.

Gilbert & George met as art students in 1967; and their entire life and career since then “can be seen as a single piece of performance art”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Now in their 80s, ...