Why is that beautiful naked boy shooting an arrow up Shaftesbury Avenue? Sex, factory reform, a revolution in aluminium casting and Christian Zionism are a part of the answer... more
The star of this jaunty musical version of 1984 film A Private Function is the pig that provides its name: an animatronic, blue-eyed and weirdly flirtatious porker called Betty... more
Producer Cameron Mackintosh and director Richard Eyre have taken a huge risk on Betty Blue Eyes, especially, they admit, as the star of the show is an animatronic swine... more
Gilbert and George attack any taboo they can find, from religion to race, sex to the art establishment, but always with scrupulous good manners and in immaculate tailoring... more
Controversial artists Gilbert and George predict visitors to their new show are more likely to be shocked by the use of the Union flag than by the prostitutes' postcards collected from telephone boxes... more
A pub landlady described as one of the most influential figures on London's art scene will become a star of the screen at this year's East End Film Festival... more
The buildings where the Sex Pistols played their first gig, fashion designer John Galliano honed his cutting skills and artists Gilbert and George first met are up for sale... more
Gilbert and George may cast themselves as heavenly bodies but their vision at Tate Modern is one of an adolescent hell awash with bodily fluids, says Brian Sewell.... more
For the art-scene pioneers, home for the past 40 years has been the streets around Brick Lane, with their curry houses and characters. Here they explain why the area has so inspired them.... more
Gilbert and George have an archive of 2,500 newspaper bills, mostly from the Evening Standard, which have been used in their new series of "bomb" pictures.... more
London's modern White Cube gallery, the place Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Gilbert and George all call home, is unveiling a second £12 million branch in the West End.... more
A retrospective exhibition devoted to Gilbert and George, a duo who have been the London art scene's most subversive exponents for four decades, will be held at Tate Modern next year.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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