peso 888 9 European Exhibitions Worth Traveling for in 2025

Leigh BoweryTate Modern, LondonImageCredit...Dick Jewell

Note the exclamation mark in the title: “Leigh Bowery!” at Tate Modern (Feb. 27 through Aug. 31) is the first large-scale exhibition to present the multidisciplinary output that was the work and too-short-life of the boy from suburban Sunshine, Australia, who out-weirded the colorful 1980s London club scene. Bowery is best known for his fabulously outré costumes: oversized bulging eyes and painted smiles, wigs of inflated spikes, bedazzled masks, baroque bustiers, sky-high platforms, PVC, bondage gear, tulle, feathers … You name it, he wore it.

This avant-garde garb, which he wore to London’s chicest deviant venues (including the famously “polysexual” club Taboo, where he mingled with Boy George, John Galliano and George Michael), has influenced countless haute-couture runway shows since Bowery died from an AIDS-related-illness in 1994, at age 33. But Bowery was a brilliant polymath, whose work included performance, live art, dance, music, modeling, television and club promotion. His larger-than-life persona knew no confines; art and life were one and the same. The Tate Modern show will consider all these facets together and promises a beautiful, wild ride through Bowery’s eclectic, boundary-breaking oeuvre.

Suzanne ValadonPompidou Center, ParisImageCredit...Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Jacqueline Hyde/ Dist. GrandPalaisRmn

Before she shocked turn-of-the-century Paris audiences as the first European woman artist to present a full-length male nude, Suzanne Valadon waited tables, made funeral wreaths, sold vegetables, and flew through the air as a circus acrobat. A fall ended her trapeze career when she was just 15, leading her to the studios of Montmartre’s most prolific artists, where she found employment as a model for Impressionist luminaries including Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and more.

It was Degas who encouraged Valadon to pick up a brush and move to the other side of the canvas, and Toulouse-Lautrec who nicknamed her Suzanne (she was born Marie-Clémentine) after the bathing biblical maiden famously ogled by lecherous elders. Valadon made the name her own and became the author, rather than the subject, of hundreds of striking portraits. The most notable are her women: self-possessed and in casual repose, unidealized and unbothered by being beheld. The Pompidou Center is mounting a vast retrospective (Jan. 15 through May 26), including new archival material that paints a picture of Valadon’s plucky and pioneering personal life.

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