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Art-punk surrealist Linder Sterling springs surprises, classic landscapes get a fresh look and Henri Michaux gets high – all in your weekly dispatch

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 Fashion and Textile Museum’s new exhibition, Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London, surveys the glamorous and often outrageous fashion, music and clubbing scene in the capital more than 40 years ago. It’s an affectionate and nostalgic celebration of new romantic London and the people who came to define it.

As Leigh Bowery and the Blitz Kids of 1980s London are celebrated in a new exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, Isobel Van Dyke explores the hair and make-up looks that defined them

Fashion and Textile Museum exhibition charts how shortlived Taboo and its founder, Leigh Bowery, inspired decade’s fashion

As Outlaws opens at the Fashion and Textile Museum, throwing light on the outrageous underbelly of the 1980s avant-garde nightclub and its impresario Leigh Bowery, Dylan Jones recalls the place to be seen

Leigh Bowery provoked, Dior’s elegant New Look inspired, Katharine Hamnett’s slogan T-shirts challenged: these are the shots that made the world see clothes differently

'I love the vibe of Manchester. People here don’t mind getting the p*** taken out of them. We just get on with life, don’t we?'

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