David Bowie fan art installation at Brooklyn Museum

“The paintings are all your own”

One of the exclusive installations at David Bowie is at the Brooklyn Museum, is a section dedicated to fan art contributions.

It’s really quite touching to think that over the years David collected all of the art he was sent and that it has been carefully stored ever since.

It had long been a wish of his to exhibit these works and the folks at the Brooklyn Museum have risen to the challenge.

We plan to post a piece online every week with the hashtag #DavidBowieArt with the aim of eventually creating an online gallery.

Sadly, the creators of the majority of the works are unidentifiable as the artworks were often accompanied by the artist’s signature only. Some pieces had more detail but it would be great if anybody seeing them could furnish us with more information, be it the artists themselves or somebody who knows them.

Anybody know anything about this beautiful first picture we are featuring?

Finally, apologies to each artist for the low quality reproduction. Much of the work was photographed through glass and sometimes intrusive reflections were unavoidable.

You can enjoy all of the pieces on display at the exhibition from March 2nd to July 15th. Tickets and more here.

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David Bowie is at the Brooklyn Museum

“It's amazing, go go go”

Following two preview events, the final stop for David Bowie is at the Brooklyn Museum is now open for all to go and enjoy.

There are many more items not shown at previous venues on the tour, such as the lightning bolt jumpsuit designed by Freddie Burretti that Bowie is wearing in the above Mick Rock photograph, taken during the 1973 Aladdin Sane shows in the UK.

Check out this coverage from the New York Times and Brooklyn Vegan for a glimpse of some of the other incredible items being shown for the first time.

David Bowie is at the Brooklyn Museum from March 2nd to July 15th at The Brooklyn Museum. Tickets and more here.

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Duncan recommends Bowie Book Club book #3

“Where there's trouble there's poetry”

Seems appropriate to share this on what is World Book Day. Following last month’s recommendation (James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time), Duncan Jones has posted his third selection for the Bowie Book Club on Twitter. It’s Spike Milligan’s Puckoon.

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Duncan Jones @ManMadeMoon Feb 27

For those keeping up, and those not, let’s reward our hard work with book #3! Spike Milligan’s hilarious tale detailing the fantastical notion of an Irish partition being screwed up by beaurecrats. PUCKOON. Oh yeah... published in 1963! All you need to do is finish by end of March.

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Here’s the synopsis for Milligan’s 55-year-old classic slapstick novel.

Spike Milligan - Puckoon

In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon.

Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess . . .

'Bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border' - Observer

'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' - Daily Mail

'Our first comic philosopher' - Eddie Izzard

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Puckoon is in DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 BOOKS list

If you don’t do Twitter (where you can respond to Duncan directly), feel free to leave your thoughts about Puckoon in the comments section on FaceBook.

FOOTNOTE: For those who may have already read Puckoon, perhaps you’re not familiar with Spike’s very own spoken word version of the novel. Listen here.

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