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Leigh Bowery

May 2020

  • Truman Capote at home, 1958.

    A look at the world's most stylish men – in pictures

    The Staley-Wise Gallery in New York has an online exhibition of eclectic images in Men of Style, which can be viewed until 30 June

October 2019

  • Squeeze up … detail from a poster by Bertold Löffler for the Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna, 1907; features in the Barbican’s Into the Night.

    Club culture
    Glamour, decadence, raids and scandal: art's greatest nightclubs

  • ‘I get excited about art!’ … Jennifer Lacey with pictures of Leigh Bowery behind her.

    'We're asking the art!' The one-to-one tarot show inspired by Bauhaus

June 2019

  • Georgia O’Keeffe, April 1960

    Beyond the canvas: the personal style of legendary artists – in pictures

    From the pared-back aesthetic of Georgia O’Keeffe to the maximalist hedonism of Keith Haring, a new book by Terry Newman explores the sartorial statements of more than 40 artists

March 2019

  • Hats off ... Leigh Bowery

    Leigh Bowery's most outrageous looks – in pictures

    From pom-pom headwear to multicoloured jigsaw suits, a new exhibition celebrates the late performance artist and fashion icon’s unique style

August 2018

  • ‘He was modern art on legs’ … Leigh Bowery in a jacket he customised.

    Sex, sin and sausages: the debauched brilliance of Leigh Bowery

    His shocking shows – featuring births, enemas and vomiting – thrilled and appalled. Two decades after his death, why is the influence of this 80s nightclub legend still so pervasive?

September 2016

  • Best discovery... Showhawk Duo at Festival No 6, Portmeirion.

    Festivals 2016
    Festival watch: Festival No 6 2016 review

    Extreme weather threatened to become the headline act but a wonderful set from Super Furry Animals and a carnival spirit saved the weekend

November 2015

  • Leigh Bowery in the jacket he customised

    A brush with greatness
    The night I put Leigh Bowery on the catwalk – and he stole the show

    As fashion editor of Blitz, Iain R Webb asked a group of designers to customise a jacket. Among them was a man who would become an icon of the 1980s

June 2014

  • Sue Tilley

    Lucian Freud's muse 'Big Sue' sketches a new career in art

    Sue Tilley, the model for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, picks up her crayons and becomes an illustrator

July 2013

  • Club to Catwalk: London fashion in the 80s remembered

    A new show at the V&A celebrates the creativity of the 80s clubbing and fashion scenes in London. Lauren Cochrane find out what inspired the decade's cool kids

February 2012

  • kitty freud

    Lucian Freud Portraits – review

    Both his subjects and the paint itself are laid bare in this monumental survey of Lucian Freud's portraits, writes Laura Cumming

April 2011

  • Food tales of the rich and famous
    Cherry pie with Leigh Bowery

    A fruit dessert with the Australian performance artist

March 2011

  • Fergus Greer's shot of Leigh Bowery

    My best shot
    Photographer Fergus Greer's best shot

  • Leigh Bowery

    Lost in showbiz
    Leigh Bowery's unlikely influence on Westlife

July 2002

  • Leigh Bowery, ideal husband

    Art's agent provocateur used to 'give birth' to his wife Nicola Bateman on stage - amid a flurry of sausages and blood - and threw ice cubes into her bath. But, she recalls, they also went to Sainsbury's together.

November 2000

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