Music ¦Fashion ¦Art
Tate Liverpool, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

Press Release:

This exhibition is devoted to the phenomenon of Glam, which originated in Great Britain in the early 70s, importing opulence, glamour and extravagance as forms of expression to the most diverse genres of art…
Glam marks the historic moment when the conventional boundaries separating “serious” and “popular” culture proved irrelevant. Glam can also be considered to be a sequel to the agenda of the avant-garde with new means, using irony, irreverence, exaggeration and androgynous masks to support its refusal to pander to reality. This is the first exhibition to take stock at a high level of the Glam subculture, its style and art, and of the visual culture of the period.

Forty years on, Moody and the Menstruators make it to the Tate

Taken as a whole, the overarching impression is that Glam! is not nearly as glam as it could be. Two exhibits stay with me: a video installation of Roxy favourites ‘Moody and The Menstruations’ – mildly annoying art school types larking around with hairy arsed builders, and a poster from The Sun, of Marc Bolan, taken around the time no self respecting music fan would touch him. Another example of the arse end of glam.
Seven Streets

The crazy side of art from the time features heavily, not least filmed performance from a group called Moody and the Menstruators, who satirised 50s rock music. “They were big in Germany,” said Pih (Tate Exhibitions and Displays curator) .
Guardian