So a couple of weeks ago I went to the David Bowie Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum... I don't think it's going to be there much longer- so I thought I'd kind of review it and explain my experience with it and... yeah!
I've been a big David Bowie fan since high school. Around when The Best of Bowie came out. I just really liked his music, a lot of the songs I knew already but didn't realize he's the one that sang them...so yeah! That was good. I ended up getting more and more into his music in college, I was really sad when he passed away... I think he's been a great influence on music and fashion and I'm a big fan and this exhibit is really a museum of him everything about his life and influences.
So my sister and I wanted to go and we didn't realize just how much stuff there would be in the museum. We thought there would be some costumes and some pictures and things... but David Bowie was very involved in every aspect of everything he put out there... so all the songs, the lyrics, the album covers, the costumes, the characters... he did all of that and they included it all in the museum... and that was all really cool. It took a long time to go through and read and see everything. We started at 12:15 and I think it was almost 5pm by the time we finished it all. So it was a lot.
They have a really cool audio experience to go along with everything. They give you headphones and it plays music and clips to go along with different rooms in the exhibit. It made it a little hard for me to concentrate on reading at first, but once I sort of got use to it it was really cool. So you would go to one area and they'd play several different versions of A Space Oddity and you could see a screen with the videos and you could hear it in your headphones. And they had another room where it showed this computer program that Bowie created (I think) and used to help him write his lyrics and you would see a video of him explaining it and you could hear it in your headphones. Very cool.
And he pretty much handwrote everything- so you could see his handwriting throughout the years and you could see it change. Especially when they showed the lyrics from his final album when he was dying. It was really interesting to see and as someone who really values handwritten things and writes things on pen and paper first usually... I just thought that was a special touch!
The rooms were also divided up pretty cool. There was one room that was black and white and that focused on his time in Berlin when he lived with Iggy Pop and kicked his drug addiction. It showed his love of the German Expressionist movement and it was just really cool. A little hard to read everything- but that really gave more insight into how he thought and what his inspirations were.
They also showed a room based on his performances and all of his acting roles. It was cool to read about him in The Elephant Man and see his movie performances on a screen. He was a really great actor as well as a singer and writer.
So overall... I have even more respect for him and all of my favorite songs I love even more now because of this exhibit. It was really really cool.
Hope you guys like this! Let me know if you went and what your favorite part was! I think it's ending at The Brooklyn Museum soon- but I think that the exhibit travels... so you might be able to see it at another museum... I think it came from a museum in London or something.
Bye!
-Shannon
I've been a big David Bowie fan since high school. Around when The Best of Bowie came out. I just really liked his music, a lot of the songs I knew already but didn't realize he's the one that sang them...so yeah! That was good. I ended up getting more and more into his music in college, I was really sad when he passed away... I think he's been a great influence on music and fashion and I'm a big fan and this exhibit is really a museum of him everything about his life and influences.
So my sister and I wanted to go and we didn't realize just how much stuff there would be in the museum. We thought there would be some costumes and some pictures and things... but David Bowie was very involved in every aspect of everything he put out there... so all the songs, the lyrics, the album covers, the costumes, the characters... he did all of that and they included it all in the museum... and that was all really cool. It took a long time to go through and read and see everything. We started at 12:15 and I think it was almost 5pm by the time we finished it all. So it was a lot.
They have a really cool audio experience to go along with everything. They give you headphones and it plays music and clips to go along with different rooms in the exhibit. It made it a little hard for me to concentrate on reading at first, but once I sort of got use to it it was really cool. So you would go to one area and they'd play several different versions of A Space Oddity and you could see a screen with the videos and you could hear it in your headphones. And they had another room where it showed this computer program that Bowie created (I think) and used to help him write his lyrics and you would see a video of him explaining it and you could hear it in your headphones. Very cool.
And he pretty much handwrote everything- so you could see his handwriting throughout the years and you could see it change. Especially when they showed the lyrics from his final album when he was dying. It was really interesting to see and as someone who really values handwritten things and writes things on pen and paper first usually... I just thought that was a special touch!
The rooms were also divided up pretty cool. There was one room that was black and white and that focused on his time in Berlin when he lived with Iggy Pop and kicked his drug addiction. It showed his love of the German Expressionist movement and it was just really cool. A little hard to read everything- but that really gave more insight into how he thought and what his inspirations were.
They also showed a room based on his performances and all of his acting roles. It was cool to read about him in The Elephant Man and see his movie performances on a screen. He was a really great actor as well as a singer and writer.
So overall... I have even more respect for him and all of my favorite songs I love even more now because of this exhibit. It was really really cool.
Hope you guys like this! Let me know if you went and what your favorite part was! I think it's ending at The Brooklyn Museum soon- but I think that the exhibit travels... so you might be able to see it at another museum... I think it came from a museum in London or something.
Bye!
-Shannon
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