Modernist Maker Digest 016: Leigh Bowery

How the taboo busting performance artist brought the Dada spirit into a new decade...

Feb 09, 2025

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9. Dick Jewell Still from What's Your Reaction to the Show 1988 © Dick Jewell.tif — Dick Jewell, Still from What's Your Reaction to the Show, 1988 © Dick Jewell.

We can’t wait for Tate Modern’s Leigh Bowery! exhibition to open later this month. It promises to offer an immersive journey into London’s 1980s queer nightlife over which Bowery presided, showing how his boundary-breaking art shaped and influenced culture from the club to the…

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