David Bowie Is
Brookyn Museum
To July 15, 2018
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"'David Bowie Is' is a museum exhibition that thinks it’s a rock concert. And it has toured the world like a rock star. Beginning in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in 2012, it has 'played' to rave reviews and long lines in 11 museums on five continents for the past five years. Bowie himself had hoped the exhibit would start in London, where he was born, and end in New York, where he lived and, in 2016, died. Now, 'David Bowie Is' arrives at the Brooklyn Museum for the final stop on its world tour. John Schaefer spoke to the curators of the both the original London exhibition and this newly-expanded New York edition..." [
listen to WNYC's interview].
"It's a stunning tour of Bowie's world – whatever your level of Bowie fascination, it's impossible to walk more than a few inches without being dazzled. It has previously unseen relics from all over his 50-year career, from his collection of designer shoes to his Seventies coke spoon, labeled bluntly, 'Cocaine spoon, 1976'. As Bowie intended, the exhibit began in London and ends in New York, as his life and career did..." [
read more in Rolling Stone].
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"David Bowie is still stunning us, two years after his death. You'll find things you couldn't see coming at the massive Bowie exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum — like a roll of wallpaper the pop legend designed. "How many rock stars designed wallpaper?," said the show's co-curator, Geoffrey Marsh. "Why on earth would he do that? Bowie might say, 'Why not?'" After all, Bowie had one of music's most curious minds. The 1,600 square foot show dedicated to his art — one of the largest exhibits in the museum's history — highlights that aspect right in its open-ended title. Called "David Bowie is," there are any number of ways to complete that sentence..." [
read more in the NY Daily News].
"One of the best aspects of David Bowie Is is that, since it predates Bowie’s death, its elements have been altered only lightly to account for the last section of Bowie’s life and his passing. In no way does it feel like a memorial exhibit, with there being only a very limited amount of material from..." [
read more in Spin].
In researching this piece, I found a few gems among the reviews and stories about the exhibit:
"I devoted a single, intense day to my pilgrimage, scouring through Bowie's interviews to not only get a sense of the places he frequented in New York but also to try to imagine what his routines might be... I strolled toward Caffe Reggio, just southwest of Washington Square. Frequented by Bowie, it's a pleasingly cluttered spot where they've been serving up cappuccino for close to a century. It was easy to imagine him tucked into the alcove — perhaps reading a book he'd picked up at McNally Jackson Books, just around the corner from his home..." [
read more in Trib Live].
"Trixie Madell, a nine-year-old Ziggy Stardust expert, put on sequinned pants and silver Doc Martens to tour the Starman’s relics with her mom. Trixie has been a David Bowie fan since she was three. Her parents, Dawn and Josh Madell, are rock enthusiasts—she’s a music supervisor, he co-owned the record store Other Music—if not particular Bowie devotees. For Trixie’s third birthday, Dawn made her a CD with Bowie’s 1967 song 'The Laughing Gnome' on it. Trixie became obsessed..." [
read more in the New Yorker].
"David Bowie loved Little Richard. Many artists of his era did, of course, but Bowie was so enamored, the legend goes, that he brought a photograph of the flamboyant rock ’n’ roll pioneer into the studio whenever he was recording. In 1982, when he made 'Let’s Dance',his biggest-selling album, he and his collaborator Nile Rodgers first spent a week going on 'an artistic quest' to museums and record archives, Mr. Rodgers said, in search of inspiration. Then one day Bowie produced an image of Little Richard in a red suit getting into a red convertible. “Nile, darling, this is what I want my record to sound like,” he said..." [
read more in the New York Times].
TO VISIT
Bowie Is
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Wednesday 11-6. Thursday 11-10. Friday-Sunday 11-6. Closed Monday-Tuesday.
Special tickets offer priority access. Standard tickets are timed every 15 minutes. All tickets include Sennheiser headphones for a complete audiovisual experience. Advance ticket purchase strongly recommended, as tickets sell out quickly.
Bowie Is - Exhibition Information - Brooklyn Museum
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To learn more
David Bowie's Secret Life: Inside the Stunning 'David Bowie Is' Exhibit in Brooklyn - Rolling Stone
'David Bowie Is' Incredible: Inside the Enigmatic Star's New Retrospective - Rolling Stone
The Bowie You've Never Seen - New York Times
The David Bowie Is Exhibition Presents an Engrossing Portrait of Rock’s Greatest Innovator and Imitator - Spin
'David Bowie Is' Reaches Its Final Destination, the Brooklyn Museum - WNYC (audio)
A Fourth-Grade Bowie Superfan Rates the Brooklyn Museum’s New Show - New Yorker
David Bowie exhibit at Brooklyn Museum surprises with offbeat items - NY Daily News
Brooklyn Museum's David Bowie exhibition prompts writer's New York City pilgrimage - Trib Live
The Top Ticket at Brooklyn Museum’s David Bowie Exhibit Costs $2,500 - Wall Street Journal
David Bowie Dies at 69; Star Transcended Music, Art and Fashion - New York Times (2016)
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