“Man. Woman. Murder.” Gilbert begins to intone. “Addict. Strangled. Rape.” “Pervert”, interjects George, “Suicide. Attack.” It’s almost comforting to hear Gilbert and George talk about their latest exhibition, London Pictures, which opens at all three of White Cube’s London galleries next week as part of a 13 gallery world tour. The show comprises 292 pictures based on the 3712 newspaper sellers’ posters they have stolen over the last six years – “we counted them in the end” – grouped together by headline words and arranged in their trademark grid designs. “And when you start to see the words together – School. Mystery. Tube – you start to see the most extraordinary townscape of London. And none of it is invented. These are real people’s lives.”

via Gilbert & George: Lives in art | Art and design | The Guardian.