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Brothers grim: Jake or Dinos Chapman – in pictures

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Jake (right) and Dinos Chapman installing sculptures of Nazis. The show runs across both the Hoxton and Mason's Yard White Cube galleries in London Photograph: David Levene
Chapman Brothers: Chapman Brothers
The concept of the show is that the two brothers have worked separately, but aren't divulging whose work is whose Photograph: David Levene
Chapman Brothers: Chapman Brothers
The Nazis are looking at the artwork in the gallery. Instead of swastikas, their armbands bear smiley faces Photograph: David Levene
Chapman Brothers: Chapman Brothers
This sculpture seems lost in contemplation before some miniatures. The two shows run side by side until 17 September
Photograph: Ben Westoby/White Cube
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Nazi but nice: Jake and Dinos Chapman's new show – in pictures
The Nazi sculptures "stand about, savouring the art like so many sophisticated high-ranking officers at the infamous Degenerate Art exhibition," says Guardian art critic Adrian Searle in his review Photograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features
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The show seems to ask: what would have happened to the history of modern art if the Nazis had supported it? It also depicts this pair having sex mid-browse Photograph: Ben Westoby/White Cube
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The Chapman's work to date has been an ongoing homage to bad taste, and their new work is no different Photograph: David Levene
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At least the galleries will never be empty Photograph: Ben Westoby/White Cube
Chapman Brothers: Chapman Brothers
The Hoxton show applies a slightly softer touch ... in the form of a horde of mannequin schoolgirls complete with pig snouts and animal faces
Photograph: Ben Westoby/White Cube
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Nazi but nice: Jake and Dinos Chapman's new show – in pictures
At Hoxton, the paintings are viewed by sculptures of children with animal faces, duck-bills and elephant trunks Photograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features
Chapman Brothers: Chapman Brothers
There is room full of Catholic kitsch featuring a baby Jesus with octopus tentacles emerging from his mouth Photograph: Ben Westoby/White Cube
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Nazi but nice: Jake and Dinos Chapman's new show – in pictures
The Chapmans aren't bothered by blasphemy: "We're Greek Orthodox," Dinos Chapman shrugged Photograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features
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After depicting Nazis, bestial schoolchildren and blasphemy, the KKK get the Jake and Dinos treatment Photograph: Ben Westoby/White Cube
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