{"id":42469,"date":"2009-04-25T20:49:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T00:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=42469"},"modified":"2017-10-28T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T00:50:02","slug":"david-bowie-is-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=42469","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;David Bowie is&#8221; Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=42470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42470\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2018_David_Bowie_is_1_Album_cover_shoot_for_Aladdin_Sane_1973_v3_DRAFT_4_2000w-560x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2018_David_Bowie_is_1_Album_cover_shoot_for_Aladdin_Sane_1973_v3_DRAFT_4_2000w-560x561.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2018_David_Bowie_is_1_Album_cover_shoot_for_Aladdin_Sane_1973_v3_DRAFT_4_2000w-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2018_David_Bowie_is_1_Album_cover_shoot_for_Aladdin_Sane_1973_v3_DRAFT_4_2000w-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2018_David_Bowie_is_1_Album_cover_shoot_for_Aladdin_Sane_1973_v3_DRAFT_4_2000w.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organized with unprecedented access to David Bowie\u2019s 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.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/davidbowieis\"><strong>David Bowie is<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has been touring globally for the past five years and is taking its final bow at the Brooklyn Museum, providing an opportunity to view this one-of-a-kind material.<\/p>\n<p><em>David Bowie is<\/em>\u00a0presents approximately 400 objects drawn primarily from the David Bowie Archive, including the artist\u2019s original costumes, handwritten lyric sheets from famous songs, original album art, photographs, and videos, all tracing Bowie\u2019s creative process from his teenage years in England through his last twenty years, when he resided in New York City. The archive is presented within an immersive, multimedia installation that includes continuous audio along with projected animation and video.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the exhibition include more than 60 custom-made performance costumes, including six designed by <strong>Freddie Burretti<\/strong> for\u00a0<em>Ziggy Stardust \/ 1980 Floor Show<\/em>\u00a0and seven designed by <strong>Kansai Yamamoto<\/strong> for\u00a0<em>Aladdin Sane<\/em>. There are 85 handwritten lyric sheets, including those from \u201cFame\u201d and \u201cFashion\u201d; drawings, including a sketch for the\u00a0<em>Young Americans<\/em>\u00a0album cover; and oil paintings, including two of musician <strong>Iggy Pop<\/strong>, all by Bowie. There are also more than 40 pioneering music videos, television clips, and filmed roles as well as a multimedia presentation of international tour footage with rare scenes from the legendary\u00a0<em>Diamond Dogs<\/em>\u00a0tour, filmed in Philadelphia. A custom audio mix made up of snippets of Bowie\u2019s songs\u2014produced by longtime collaborator <strong>Tony Visconti<\/strong>\u2014is also featured.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/davidbowieis\"><em>Brooklyn Museum<\/em><\/a>, 220 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York,\u00a0718-638-5000,\u00a0March 2\u2013July 15, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized with unprecedented access to David Bowie\u2019s 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.\u00a0David Bowie is\u00a0has been touring globally for the past five years and is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[7799,7800,7796,7802,717,1788,7797,222,5713,3407,2790,7801,7798],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42471,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42469\/revisions\/42471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}