Leigh Bowery Arrives at Tate Modern, Without Labels

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Leigh Bowery Arrives at Tate Modern, Without Labels

“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 this resistance to easy categorization that has meant Bowery never quite became a household name. His cultural influence, though, is beyond question: His provocative performances led him to work with artists including Lucian Freud and Marina Abramovic. His extreme fashions are still referenced …

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The Tate Modern in London devotes an exhibition to this "transgender" figure, which was a dream of London nights, inspiring painters, choreographers and photographers.