David Bowie Is
David Bowie Is was a touring museum exhibit displaying history, artifacts and information about the life, music, films, tours, and art of English singer-songwriter and actor David Bowie.
A view of the Brooklyn Museum in New York flying a David Bowie Is banner in March 2018 | |
| Date | 23 March 2013 – 15 July 2018 |
|---|---|
| Type | Museum exhibition |
| Theme | David Bowie |
| Website | davidbowieis |
The show opened in March 2013 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and ended in July 2018 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. Over its five-year run, it stopped at 12 museums around the world and attracted over two million visitors. At each museum, the exhibit displayed about 500 objects; often a few hundred were unique to that particular museum. An accompanying documentary film, also titled David Bowie Is, was directed by Hamish Hamilton, Katy Mullan, and Hanif Kureishi.
After the exhibit closed in July 2018, it was announced that in early 2019 a new, virtual version of the exhibit would be released on virtual and augmented reality platforms.