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The great polymath’s late output reads like a manual for artists saying goodbye.
Spending a year living life as David Bowie gave me a better understanding of the pop icon’s mind and work.
Amid the tribute concerts and outpourings of sadness on the anniversary of Bowie’s death, we should be wary of mythologising him.
It’s become a popular meme: 2016 was the worst year ever. We’ll be lucky if it was.
Many great artists died in 2016: Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Paul Cox, Shirley Hazzard. It was a year of creative foment and as always, intense debate about the importance of the arts to a thriving, democratic society.
The MTV music video awards will be held on Sunday, putting this under-rated genre in the spotlight. Videos are inseparable from music in the digital age and the best examples deserve to be taken seriously as works of art.
The boxer’s death follows hard on the heels of David Bowie and Prince. The world is losing global icons and learning how to grieve using new and democratic tools.
From Beyoncé and Lady Gaga to Kanye and even Rihanna, pop royalty is crazy for high art. Is this a phenomenon worth celebrating or are pop stars mining the art world to gain credibility?
Lady Gaga and Lorde have both paid tribute to David Bowie in very different ways. Debating who did it better is rooted in an ideology of authenticity that pits rock against pop. In reality, Bowie embodied both.
It contains countless wonders – but all is not what it seems.
January seems to be characterised by deluge of public mourning. But why do we do it?
The dark, disturbing imagery of Bowie’s final album recalls how the artist inspired the goth movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
David Bowie was not God, although for kids like me in the early 1970s he was the closest we ever came to believing in one. Neither was he perfect. For a long time there, back in the 1980s, just about everything…
Privately, we grieve for those we’ve loved. Publicly, we grieve for those we’ve never even met.
Singer, artist but also actor, Bowie made some notable appearances. Here are some of those.
Bowie’s acting skills in one of his most famous films was both awkward and self-conscious. For the director these were perfect qualities for an alien.
The musician’s shape-shifting sense of style helped him recruit new audiences.
There are, after all, two very different candidates…
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