LONDON, Feb 23 — London’s V&A museum said today it had secured the archive of late music star David Bowie for the nation, acquiring more than 80,000 items spanning his career...
LONDON, Feb 23 — London’s V&A museum said today it had secured the archive of late music star David Bowie for the nation, acquiring more than 80,000 items spanning his career that will be made available to the public from 2025.exhibition in 2013, will open The David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at its V&A East Storehouse in east London, where fans, school pupils and researchers will be able to gain insight into the pioneering British singer-songwriter’s creative process.
“The archive is fascinating, it follows David Bowie’s career and his life was art,” Kate Bailey, senior curator and producer, theatre and performance at the V&A, told Reuters. Bowie, a visionary rock star who straddled the worlds of music, fashion, drama and art for five decades, died from cancer in 2016, aged 69.
The museum said it secured the archive and could create the new centre thanks to the David Bowie Estate and a £10 million donation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group.
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