Interview
A Trip Through the Many Worlds of David Bowie
With Moonage Daydream, director Brett Morgen sought to let Bowie’s music and philosophy hit in a whole new way, immersing audiences in an IMAX experience.
David Bowie
News
Purchased at a Landfill for $5, a David Bowie Painting Smashed an Auction Record
The work is from Bowie’s Dead Heads series, which includes portraits of his friends, family members, and bandmates.
Books
David Bowie's Life in Comics
Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams, a graphic journey through the life of David Bowie, is nothing short of a visual masterpiece.
Opinion
New Non-Binary Emojis Fall Short of Their Good Intentions
While the announcement might be a step in the right direction, it inadvertently reinforces even more gender stereotypes, limiting nonbinary individuals to greyish androgynous figures defined primarily by their haircuts.
Books
The Art School Roots of Pop Music's Legends
In How Art Made Pop and Pop Became Art, Mike Roberts charts the extraordinary reciprocal relationship between art schools and pop musicians.
Art
David Bowie, the Nobel Prize, and Panic in Stockholm
The current drama around the Swedish Academy has reached Shakespearian proportions, and might even flip the way we look at contemporary culture.
Art
The Stories Behind David Bowie's Otherworldly Music Videos
Mick Rock, the director of many of Bowie's best-known videos, will share stories and a previously unreleased video.
In Brief
David Bowie MetroCards Are Coming to a Subway Near You
The campaign, launched by Spotify and the MTA, coincides with the pricey and wildly popular exhibition David Bowie is at the Brooklyn Museum.
Books
A Graphic Novel Tells the Story of David Bowie, Orgies and All
With a nod to Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glaser, Néjib illustrates a couple of formative years in the life of David Bowie.
In Brief
The Museum that Sold the World: Brooklyn Museum Asks $2,500 for VIP Access to Bowie Show
The museum has devised a whole range of ways to entice visitors into shelling out cash for the hotly anticipated exhibition devoted to the late superstar.
News
Gavel Gavel, Your Art's a Success: David Bowie’s Collection Heads to Auction
We've heard his music and seen his own artworks, but the personal art collection of David Bowie has remained largely hidden from the public eye.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a psychedelic zebra sculpture was stolen and recovered, an arts organization shuttered following an embezzlement fiasco and lye attack, and vandals smashed a David Bowie painting.