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2025 ➤ 50 years on: Celebrating the world’s first pose band
Nice Style posing at the Gallery, 1974: High up on a Baroque Palazzo. McLean himself is at top left. Photo by Craigie Horsfield
❚ SCOTTISH SCULPTOR BRUCE MCLEAN set out to satirise modern art in October 1974 with Nice Style, “the world’s first Pose Band”, pictured here. Read more about this startling occasion on our inside page along with the riveting review written by the Evening Standard’s art critic Richard Cork…
“ In the autumn of ’74 art critic Richard Cork took me to the Gallery in Covent Garden to witness one of the most exciting live performances I can recall, staged in a largish space full of ropes and pulleys, ladders and flapping doors, by four animated artists calling themselves Nice Style, “the world’s first Pose Band”, led by Bruce McLean. Stopping, posing and re-starting in 3-D for a full hour, three days a week, they were electric, fascinating and hilarious. We were being invited to laugh in an art gallery!”
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