Legendary queer performer Leigh Bowery inspired artists from Lucien Freud to Marina Abramović. A new Tate Modern survey ...

As a new exhibition celebrating the performance artist opens at Tate Modern, writer Esther Freud reflects on the singular ...

The artist and performer tore up cultural hierarchies not just as a form of political activism but as a way of making sense ...

Leigh Bowery!' opens at the Tate Modern on 27 February ... and rising homophobia further incited by the AIDS epidemic. Consequently, people were looking for more and more creative ways to express ...

Performing at AIDS Benefit in Brixton ... at the Tate Modern’s Leigh Bowery! retrospective, open now to August 31. “Leigh hadn’t even begun to tap into his creative potential at the time ...

‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern is a groundbreaking show for a ... with patterns and spots that are thought by some to allude to the lesions associated with AIDS. There is a horror-glamour and ...

Sue Tilley Leigh Bowery, Cerith Wynn Evans and Angus Cook ... because he didn’t tell anyone he was ill [with AIDS] and he went with unbelievable dignity. To me, he was unknowable, and sometimes ...

Leigh Bowery — the fashion designer, performance artist, king of London nightlife and all-round arch provocateur (who would detest such categorisation; “if you label me, you negate me,” he used to say ...