it seemed that his last legacy was going to be the The Spectator. This work, who did not know their closest collaborators until the year of their death was discovered when investigating in their study, is part of the donation of the entire archive of the artist to Victoria & Albert Museum in London and will be exhibited in a sample on September 13,
This musical piece, explains the British media, shows Bowie’s passion for art and satire of the 18 BBC Radio 4 In 2002. “And I suppose I could have written theater in my living room, but I think the intention was always to have a quite large audience.” Bowie’s notes for The Spectator They were found as he had left them, nailed to the walls and stored in his New York office, collects the BBC.
All this material can be seen in the inauguration that will open. “We also have the desktop [donde trabajaba] In the Storehouse, ”says Madeleine Haddon, main curator of the collection in the British media, which publishes on its website all the notes of the artist ceded by Victoria & Albert.
In these small colored papers, in notebook leaves with annotations and drawings, Bowie’s fascination is revealed for crime. The artist imagined the sequelae of a public execution, with “surgeons fighting for the bodies,” reads the BBC. The author built a chronology of the early eighteenth century, reviewing painters such as Joshua Reynolds and William Hogarth.
The musician’s archive includes about 90,000 pieces. Some 200 will be exhibited at the Bowie Center, but visitors can make an appointment to see any object of the collection in person, from stage locker room to handwritten letters, – filling an online form.
