If you are a London newsagent and have noticed an impeccably dressed but slightly shifty gentleman in his 60s regularly buying chewing gum in recent years, you may have been the victim of a "crime".
He was, in fact, a distraction to prevent you from seeing another impeccably dressed gentleman outside, removing the local newspaper bill from its metal rack. "We realised we had to steal them," said Gilbert. "We had a drawer full of chewing gum at one stage," said George.
The men responsible for the systematic theft of 3,712 newspaper bills in east and north London are, of course, the artists Gilbert & George – and on Thursday they revealed the results in an exhibition across all three White Cube galleries in London.The 292 bills that made it into London Pictures form Gilbert & George's largest series of works.
Read all about it: how Gilbert & George stole the headlines and made art in The Guardian