Brothers grim: Jake or Dinos Chapman – in pictures
Jake (right) and Dinos Chapman installing sculptures of Nazis. The show runs across both the Hoxton and Mason's Yard White Cube galleries in LondonPhotograph: David LeveneThe concept of the show is that the two brothers have worked separately, but aren't divulging whose work is whosePhotograph: David LeveneThe Nazis are looking at the artwork in the gallery. Instead of swastikas, their armbands bear smiley facesPhotograph: David Levene
This sculpture seems lost in contemplation before some miniatures. The two shows run side by side until 17 September Photograph: Ben Westoby/White CubeThe 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 reviewPhotograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex FeaturesThe 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-browsePhotograph: Ben Westoby/White CubeThe Chapman's work to date has been an ongoing homage to bad taste, and their new work is no differentPhotograph: David LeveneAt least the galleries will never be emptyPhotograph: Ben Westoby/White CubeThe 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 CubeAt Hoxton, the paintings are viewed by sculptures of children with animal faces, duck-bills and elephant trunksPhotograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex FeaturesThere is room full of Catholic kitsch featuring a baby Jesus with octopus tentacles emerging from his mouthPhotograph: Ben Westoby/White CubeThe Chapmans aren't bothered by blasphemy: "We're Greek Orthodox," Dinos Chapman shruggedPhotograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex FeaturesAfter depicting Nazis, bestial schoolchildren and blasphemy, the KKK get the Jake and Dinos treatmentPhotograph: Ben Westoby/White Cube
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