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By Tom Faber Reporting from London “If you label me, you negate me,” the performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery said in 1993, one year before his death at age 33. Maybe it is ...
It’s an entirely impossible feat to capture the extraordinarily outrageous life of Leigh Bowery, but a retrospective at Tate Modern feels like an honorable place to start. Bowery was a larger than ...
One fateful evening in February, 1990, Leigh Bowery — the fashion designer, performance artist, king of London nightlife and all-round arch provocateur (who would detest such categorisation; “if you ...
Leigh Bowery was larger than life in all senses: a self-styled performance artist whose exuberantly physical antics took place in nightclubs rather than art galleries; a monstrous egotist who ...
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At Leigh Bowery’s club, Taboo, Hi-NRG dance music throbbed from the speakers, polysexual identities were celebrated, and outrageous, colourful, sculptural fashion was on display in every direction.
‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern is a groundbreaking show for a number of reasons. Through the lens of the legendary performance artist, muse and designer (1961-1994), we see the emergence and impact of ...
Tate Modern celebrates the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery - one of the most fearless and original artists of the 20th century. It opened on 27 February and will close on 31 ...