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 ...

For over a decade, Leigh Bowery was an unmissable presence in London’s queer underground. Instantly recognizable thanks to his outlandish costumes and heavy make-up – which went way beyond drag, or ...

A celebration of the boundary-pushing career of artist Leigh Bowery. Leigh Bowery’s short but extraordinary life left a distinct, undeniable mark on the art world and beyond. An artist, performer, ...

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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.

Paul McCartney announced a second surprise show at the Bowery Ballroom slated for Wednesday night, but tickets were quickly snapped up. The East Village venue was completely sold out by 11 a.m ...

Tate Modern this week opened a vast exhibition exploring the life and work of the maverick Australian-born performance artist, fashion designer and self-styled “club monster”, Leigh Bowery ...

A Belfast woman charged along with a male co-accused with committing an act outraging public decency passed away last month, a court heard on Wednesday. Gillian Portis, 50, and 37-year old Adrian ...

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My first encounter with Leigh Bowery was in 1984 at Christine Binnie’s Hail Mary club night, held in the crypt of St Mary Magdalene Church, near Regent’s Park, London. He was impossible to miss.

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