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Steve Harley, who died last week, deserves greater recognition for his contribution to the glam-rock genre and to music in general.
Has Jeff Koons’ latest high-profile stunt just proved that space is the new frontier for art?
From the coronation robes, made of gold to last centuries, to David Bowie’s jumpsuits created from the newest materials, dress archives have stories to tell.
The artist’s fabled archive spans his entire career, showcasing his playful curiosity, his need for beauty and his respect for style.
A lost album by the late Prince, set for release in 2023, promises to highlight how the pop pioneer played with gender roles.
Molly Meldrum is not a slick player, but a fan.
Like the artist himself, Brett Morgen’s film about David Bowie defies convention to create an extraordinary audiovisual tapestry of an endlessly creative life.
In June 1972, the first United Nations conference on the human environment coincided with the release of David Bowie’s iconic Ziggy Stardust album. Both still feel disturbingly relevant today
Fifty years ago, on July 11, 1969, David Bowie released Space Oddity. With its adventurous orchestration, unsettling harmonics and melancholy narrative, the now classic song captured a moment.
The US president as avant-garde provocateur.
Several outstanding women were nominated, but Rainbow Murray, an adviser to the series, says the public vote showed how we’re still more inclined to recognise male achievement.
Rock'n'Roll has long been associated with sexual misconduct but there are signs the industry is waking up to this.
The singer had Romantic notions in common with the poet – as well as with William Blake, Mary Shelley, and John Keats.
David Bowie was the tasteful thief and practised faker, and his 1974 album Diamond Dogs borrowed from everything to create a sublime post-apocalyptic soundscape.
On the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth – A Clockwork Orange had a profound influence on the cultural and political landscape.
Three stories about researchers who have dabbled in self-experimentation – with varying results.
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The great polymath’s late output reads like a manual for artists saying goodbye.
Spending a year living life as David Bowie gave me a better understanding of the pop icon’s mind and work.
Amid the tribute concerts and outpourings of sadness on the anniversary of Bowie’s death, we should be wary of mythologising him.
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