David Bowie.Photo: Masayoshi Sukita/Sukita and The David Bowie Archive
David Bowiewill live on through The David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts.
Set to open in 2025 in London, the museum will include more than 80,000 items detailing his trajectory as a musical innovator, cultural icon, and advocate for self-expression and reinvention beginning with his early career in the 1960s and closing with his death at 69 in 2016.
“He didn’t just make art, he was art!“Nile Rodgers, who produced his 1983 hit “Let’s Dance,” said in a release.
David Bowie.John Robert Rowlands/John Robert Rowlands and The David Bowie Archive
“The continuing regenerative nature of his spirit grows ever further in popular resonance and cultural reach down through younger generations,” Bowie’s collaborator and friendTilda Swintonsaid in a release.
“In acquiring his archive for posterity, the V&A will now be able to offer access to David Bowie’s history – and the portal it represents – not only to practicing artists from all fields, but to every last one of us, and for the foreseeable future.”
Masayoshi Sukita/Sukita and The David Bowie Archive
The news of the museum follows the V&A’s 2013 exhibition,David Bowie Is…, which was the first time a museum had access to the David Bowie Archive. More than two million people saw the exhibition as part of a world tour, making it one of the V&A’s most popular exhibitions ever.
The new museum was formed with funding from the David Bowie Estate and a $12 million donation from Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group. Along with supporting the creation of the museum and access to the archive, this will also fund the conservation, research, and study of the archive.
In October, Bowie’s wifeImanspoke about her late husband in an interview withHoda Kotbfor SiriusXMTodayShow Radio.
When askedhow often she thinks of Bowie now, Iman, 67, replied, “every day and every minute.”
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Iman and David Bowie.Kevin Mazur/WireImage
“I have a necklace I’m wearing under here that has his name on it, [a] designer who is a friend of ours called Hedi Slimane sent me this and I’ve worn it since that first week after David passed away,” she said. “Yeah, I think of him all the time.”
She continued, “People said your ‘late husband,’ I said — don’t call my husband ‘late,’ he’s not my late husband he is my husband and he’ll always be.”
Bowiedied of canceron Jan. 10, 2016, at the age of 69. Iman and Bowie married in Florence, Italy on June 6, 1992, and share their now 22-year-old daughterAlexandria “Lexi” Jones.
Reflecting on her marriage during the chat, Iman explained, “I think if you’re lucky, you’ll experience something like that, you know what I mean? It’s luck and I was lucky.”
source: people.com
