Though not all the art critics were part of the in crowd on this occasion, the buzz around Tate Modern’s spectacular “Leigh Bowery!” exhibition has been undeniable. It is the first major museum show ...

If ‘80s London subcultures — punk, New Romantics, Goth, and the Blitz Kids — were placed in a blender, the outcome would look something like Leigh Bowery, the colorfully eccentric and provocative ...

I first came across Leigh Bowery in the mid-Eighties when I was sharing a flat with two very close friends of his, Angus Cook and Cerith Wyn Evans. There’s a photo of the three of them in Tate’s new ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Bowery’s ...

Forty years ago in London, the flamboyant New Romantics subculture was coming to an end and the rave scene had yet to begin, ...

Artistic provocateurs have a maddening habit of turning their lives into one big performance, which can make them hard to relate to personally. When he was alive, radical fashion designer Leigh Bowery ...

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In a contemporary society made creatively bland by the homogenizing factor of social media, one yearns again for such an original artist. Dave Swindells, "Marc Vaultier, Leigh Bowery and Fat Tony at ...

A new exhibition about the indefinable performer and designer won’t pigeonhole him, though it will bring his work to a much broader audience. By Tom Faber Reporting from London “If you label me, you ...

Leigh Bowery was a pioneering performance artist of the 1980s and ’90s, known for his hard-to-witness, extravagant, yet seemingly impossible-not-to-watch acts of hedonistic art, and now the visionary ...

The “predatory guy in an Anti Social Social Club shirt and Comme De Garçons Converse” trope is exhausted yet somewhat deserved. Streetwear’s overriding sexist and homophobic male audience has always ...