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Leigh Bowery! review – the sex, scandal and sprayed enemas of the ultimate exhibitionist

This exhaustive account of the iconic diva and dandy covers all the fashion, drugs, clubs and self-obsession of a life that was short, sleazy and sensational

The Guardian - UK

Fashion disruptors, phoney Picassos and St Paul’s goes psychedelic – the week in art

Leigh Bowery and The Face magazine get their eclectic retrospectives while St Paul’s Cathedral becomes an immersive artwork – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Tate Liverpool ‘flings open windows’ to first phase of £30m revamp

Gallery, whose success its director says others have learned from, is now expected to reopen in spring 2027

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‘A living, breathing work of art’: Leigh Bowery by those who knew him best

The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, family and friends talk about Bowery’s larger-than-life legacy

The Guardian - UK

How the capital's art world went broke on woke

Lectures on social issues instead of just amazing art: no wonder London’s major galleries are in crisis, says JJ Charlesworth

Evening Standard

Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Tate Modern’s cultural shapeshifting takes the art prize

We sing the praises of Tate Modern for celebrating the artists that are drawn to other worlds

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‘Most of my work is a response to war’: Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor

The artist, famed in the UK for her extraordinary fissure in the Turbine Hall, has turned her focus to the climate catastrophe and the plight of migrants, but old concerns about her country remain

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From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

The Guardian - UK

Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Craig’s turn as queer writer and an ‘unfilmable’ book brought to life – what you should watch, read and see this week

William S. Burroughs was a gay drug addict. A knot of contradictions, he was also deeply homophobic, sexist, racist and a gun-loving conservative, a passion that would eventually lead to him to be convicted of manslaughter. Needless to say, his life was as wild as his fiction – just watch…

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Looking forward to Tate Modern’s 25th anniversary party

From 9-12 May 2025, Tate Modern, one of London’s most adored art museums, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a lively weekend of festivities

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Discover psychedelic landscapes and mind-bending art at London’s Tate Modern

'Electric Dreams' at the Tate encompasses the period from the 1950s to the beginning of the internet era

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Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern review: thrillingly experimental

4/5 This fusion of art and early technology is all thoroughly engaging, so take your time

Evening Standard

Surreal landscapes, psychedelic techno visions and pop art fairground rides – the week in art

Pre-internet computer creations get rebooted at Tate Modern, Graham MacIndoe documents his drug use, and a Keith Haring carousel is on show in New York

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Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino is suturing the past to the present

Centering Black feminism and anti-racism, Paulino’s work is being celebrated from New York’s High Line to the Tate Modern

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From Louis Partridge's sex scenes to Cate Blanchett's script notes: inside the BFI London Film Festival parties

All the pictures and gossip from London’s biggest week in film

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Tate Modern to host Aphex Twin listening experience

A free listening event for Aphex Twin's reissued album 'Selected Ambient Works II (Expanded Edition)' on the 25th of October

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon: Human Presence; Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound – review

Likeness is almost beside the point as Bacon’s wild originality transcends simple portraiture. At the Turbine Hall, Mire Lee’s floating ‘skins’ are a one-hit spectacle

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The Guardian - UK

Mire Lee’s Turbine Hall review – as kitsch as tatty Halloween decorations

The Korean artist’s hanging sculpture of a turbine oozing brown liquid aims to frighten and disgust – but this hackneyed effort doesn’t even smell

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Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit review – arrested development

Featuring stuffed toys having sex, spunk stars and comic book glass cities, not to mention the noise, this survey of the work of the late US conceptual artist Mike Kelley has all the hallmarks of a teenager who never grew up

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Frieze London 2024: everything to see and do

As London gears up for Frieze Week (9-13 October 2024), here are the must-sees inside and outside the fair

Evening Standard

Mike Kelley at Tate Modern review – this relentless pop culture show feels a bit like being flayed alive

There are many interesting ideas here but it ends up being bewildering... and good lord, the noise.

The Guardian - UK

Impressionism-on-Thames, a star slacker and a disturbing double act – the week in art

Monet brightens up London, Mike Kelley’s teddies have their big day out and Goya goes head-to-head with Paula Rego – all in your weekly dispatch

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (September 18 – 22)

From a new Thai spot in London to the coolest party on the South Bank, here’s everything to eat, see and do in London this weekend

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The best food and drink pop-ups happening in London this September

Restaurants, chefs and residencies to catch this September

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