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Glam! The Performance of Style / Sylvia Sleigh, Tate Liverpool

Glam! The Performance of Style / Sylvia Sleigh, Tate Liverpool

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Friday, 8 February, 2013 (All day)
Glam! The Performance of Style: Bringing together more than 100artworks the exhibition will reveal the genealogy of Glam in pop culture i n the early 70s. Themes of glamour, camp, exaggerated identity, androgyn y, eroticism and dandyism will be explored in the work of David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Allen Jones, Richard Hamilton, Peter Hujar and many more. Until 12 May http://bit.ly/JfgR7f Sylvia Sleigh: Althou gh widely over-looked in the field of modern and contemporary art, Sylvia Sleigh was a realist painter who became an important part of New York’s fem inist art scene in the 1960s and beyond. She was particularly well-known fo r her explicit paintings of male nudes, which challenged the art historica l tradition of male artists painting female subjects as objects of desire. Until 3 May http://bit.ly/WdItVz