How do you begin to curate the radically diverse and subversive body of work belonging to the legend, David Bowie? For the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, it means delving into the artist’s archive of some 75,000 objects maintained by the artist himself and curating a retrospective covering over five decades of fashion, sound, theatre, art and film. David Bowie is, opening on September 25, 2013 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, is the first stop on the exhibition’s world tour, an international first devoted to the artist and acclaimed by the New York Times as “united in sound and vision in a way rarely seen in a museum.”
“This is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate a living artist whose radical artfulness of identity has had an enormous influence on art, design and contemporary culture as we know it,” Matthew Teitelbaum, director and CEO of the AGO said in a press release. “We are thrilled to work with the world-class V&A in bringing the provocative genius and vision of David Bowie to Toronto.”
I for one, am ecstatic and am having all the feelings, like that time I saw Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing a Bowie-esque glam rock coke-addicted rock star in Velvet Goldmine:
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Vidal Wu is an intern at Toronto Standard. You can follow him on Twitter at @vidalwuu.
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