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Massive David Bowie Exhibition Coming to the Brooklyn Museum, by dreadnatty on Oct 4, 2017 18:24:06 GMT 1, www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/david-bowie-is-brooklyn-exhibition-coming-brooklyn-museum-2018/
The Brooklyn Museum posted a bright orange square to all of their social media accounts Tuesday, teasing a big announcement they would be making the following day.
As many speculated, the cryptic message was a sign that โDavid Bowie is,โ the vast international touring-exhibition about the famed glam-rock singer, who passed away in January 2016, would be coming to the museum in March, 2018.
David Bowie isโฆ coming to Brooklyn! ๏ธWeโre proud to announce that the critically acclaimed exhibition โDavid Bowie isโ will make the final stop of its world tour @brooklynmuseum Mar 2โJul 15, 2018. Organized by @vamuseum, itโs the first retrospective of the extraordinary career of #DavidBowieโone of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. David Bowie is will be a timed ticketed exhibition. Lightning Bolt tickets, which give attendees priority access to the exhibition, are available now. Member tickets will be available on Nov 8 before standard tickets go on sale to the public on Nov 15. Link in bio for details! #davidbowieisbkm Album cover shoot for Aladdin Sane, 1973. Photograph by #BrianDuffy. @duffy_archive ยฉ Duffy Archive & The David Bowie Archive. Consisting of nearly 400 items from the singerโs career, including original costumes, hand-written lyrics, and โ most infamously โ the rock starโs personal cocaine spoon, the exhibition has been a huge success since its opening at Londonโs Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013. It has since traveled to museums all over the world, including Brazil, Tokyo, and Australia.
โBowie himself left England in 1974 to eventually settle in America, so we could not be more delighted that the final leg of the tour brings the show back to New York, where Bowie made his home,โ said the showโs curator, Victoria Broackes, in a press release. Prior to the exhibitionโs arrival in Brooklyn, the only other stop in the United States was the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, in 2014.
Aside from his own extensive archive of materials from his music career, Bowie was also a serious art collector. Many of the pieces from his collection, including works from painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and Italian designers the Memphis Group, were auctioned off by Sothebyโs in November 2016. (Alas, they will not be included in the show.)
Brooklyn Museum is known for untraditional shows, which often have a local connection. Although this is not the museumโs first brush with Bowie (he controversially helped fund and loaned some works for the โSensationโ exhibition in 1999), the subject isnโt particularly Brooklyn related, although Bowie did record a music video for his 2013 track โValentineโs Dayโ on the first floor of Red Hookโs abandoned grain terminal, the iconic hulk at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal.
Expect enormous lines, loud music and lots of glitter.
www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/david-bowie-is-brooklyn-exhibition-coming-brooklyn-museum-2018/The Brooklyn Museum posted a bright orange square to all of their social media accounts Tuesday, teasing a big announcement they would be making the following day. As many speculated, the cryptic message was a sign that โDavid Bowie is,โ the vast international touring-exhibition about the famed glam-rock singer, who passed away in January 2016, would be coming to the museum in March, 2018. David Bowie isโฆ coming to Brooklyn! ๏ธWeโre proud to announce that the critically acclaimed exhibition โDavid Bowie isโ will make the final stop of its world tour @brooklynmuseum Mar 2โJul 15, 2018. Organized by @vamuseum, itโs the first retrospective of the extraordinary career of #DavidBowieโone of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. David Bowie is will be a timed ticketed exhibition. Lightning Bolt tickets, which give attendees priority access to the exhibition, are available now. Member tickets will be available on Nov 8 before standard tickets go on sale to the public on Nov 15. Link in bio for details! #davidbowieisbkm Album cover shoot for Aladdin Sane, 1973. Photograph by #BrianDuffy. @duffy_archive ยฉ Duffy Archive & The David Bowie Archive. Consisting of nearly 400 items from the singerโs career, including original costumes, hand-written lyrics, and โ most infamously โ the rock starโs personal cocaine spoon, the exhibition has been a huge success since its opening at Londonโs Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013. It has since traveled to museums all over the world, including Brazil, Tokyo, and Australia. โBowie himself left England in 1974 to eventually settle in America, so we could not be more delighted that the final leg of the tour brings the show back to New York, where Bowie made his home,โ said the showโs curator, Victoria Broackes, in a press release. Prior to the exhibitionโs arrival in Brooklyn, the only other stop in the United States was the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, in 2014. Aside from his own extensive archive of materials from his music career, Bowie was also a serious art collector. Many of the pieces from his collection, including works from painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and Italian designers the Memphis Group, were auctioned off by Sothebyโs in November 2016. (Alas, they will not be included in the show.) Brooklyn Museum is known for untraditional shows, which often have a local connection. Although this is not the museumโs first brush with Bowie (he controversially helped fund and loaned some works for the โSensationโ exhibition in 1999), the subject isnโt particularly Brooklyn related, although Bowie did record a music video for his 2013 track โValentineโs Dayโ on the first floor of Red Hookโs abandoned grain terminal, the iconic hulk at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal. Expect enormous lines, loud music and lots of glitter.
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