In memory of David Bowie
8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016
David Bowie was a musician, actor and icon, as well as a painter, sculptor, curator and magazine editor. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. Take for example:
The Glass Spider Tour (1987)
The tour was, at that point, the most expensive tour Bowie had embarked upon in his career. The tour was generally poorly received at the time for being overblown and pretentious.
Bowie conceived the tour as a theatrical show, and included spoken-word introductions to some songs, vignettes, and employed visuals including projected videos, theatrical lighting and stage props.
Despite the criticism, Bowie in 1991 remarked that this tour laid the groundwork for later successful theatrical tours by other artists, and the set's design and the show's integration of music and theatrics has inspired later acts by a variety of artists.
Starting in the late 2000s, the tour began to collect accolades for its successes, and in 2010 the tour was named one of the top concert tour designs of all time.
Bowie owned an extensive private art collection included paintings, sculpture and furniture. He was described by an art advisor as "a true collector. His acquisitions were not commercially motivated; he cared about the art, not the market.”
Around 350 pieces of art from Bowie's collection were put up for auction in November 2016. Among them was a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, titled Air Power (1984) which Bowie purchased for $120,000. It was estimated to sell for as much as $4.3 million and ultimately sold for $8.8 million.
Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan is a thought leader and direction-setting art museum that boldly collects, develops, presents and interprets the art of our time.
The ground floor of the museum will always be free to the public, featuring large-scale art commissions, a changing gallery space, and an active learning studio. This floor also provides lively environments for gathering, with a fireplace and open lounge areas, cutting-edge art and design store, and exceptional restaurant.
The second and third floors contain a variety of spaces for programming, including collection galleries, a Picasso gallery and sizeable spaces for temporary and internationally touring exhibitions. Films, performances, and talks will be hosted in a fully outfitted 150-seat theatre.
Solve for the co-ordinates N 52° 07.ABC W 106° 39.XYZ
A = (Total number of Picasso Linocuts at the Remai Modern + 4) divided by 5 minus 80
B = (Territory the museum sits on) divided by 3
C = (The year Bowie stated "Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own.") minus (the year Bowie played Warhol in Basquiat)
X = (Number of letters in the word translated from the syllabics in this image ) minus 3
Y = How many months was Bowie hospitalised following a fight over a girl.
Z = Modern Love was issued as the ___ single from the album.
