![]() The Cave of the Golden Calf, and many equally racy institutions, are celebrated in Into the Night, an exhibition at London’s Barbican exploring clubs, cabarets and bohemian life. ![]() Both Bowery and his friend Sue Tilley (cashier at Taboo) became important models for the painter Lucian Freud. His club looks were later exhibited at the Anthony D’Offay Gallery, where Bowery appeared in a series of extreme costumes, watched by visitors through a one-way mirror. The door policy was notoriously fierce: “Dress as though your life depends on it – or don’t bother.” Bowery did just that, manipulating his figure with extraordinary designs that padded, squashed and transformed him like a living sculpture. Participants in this “pansexual beauty pageant” included Miss St Claire Perry of Essex, better known to current audiences as that shrinking violet of the art world, Grayson Perry.Ī decade later, performance artist Leigh Bowery co-founded the club night Taboo in a space off Leicester Square. It was there in 1975 that Logan held his Alternative Miss World. The spirit of the Cave, if not its ravishing interiors, lived on in the magnificently indecorous creative gatherings of the latter half of the 20th century, when Thames-side warehouses at Butler’s Wharf were squatted by such artists as Derek Jarman and Andrew Logan. ![]() View image in fullscreen Grounds for divorce … Spencer Gore’s study for a mural decoration for the Cave of the Golden Calf, 1912.
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