Tag: David Bowie

‘David Bowie is’ travels to Brooklyn for final show

Organized with unprecedented access to David Bowie’s personal archive, this exhibition explores the creative process of an artist whose sustained reinventions, innovative collaborations, and bold characterizations revolutionized the way we see music, inspiring people to shape their own identities while challenging social traditions. David Bowie is has been touring globally for the past five years…
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18th October 2017
Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical at The Met

When the Memphis design movement debuted its first collection, spectators lined up early on to gawk but, aside from a devoted few (Karl Lagerfeld and David Bowie among them), not necessarily to buy. Now the innovative group’s leader, Ettore Sottsass, has reemerged, inspiring Greenpoint ceramicists, Supreme collaborations, and an exhibit at the Met Breuer from July 21 –…
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11th June 2017
David Bowie’s art fetches £24m in first round of sale

According to The Guardian, the first items from David Bowie’s personal art collection were sold at auction in London on Nov 10th, 2016, fetching more than £24m. A 1984 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, titled Air Power, was the most expensive of the night, selling for nearly £7.1m including premium – double the pre-sale upper estimate of…
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13th November 2016