It's been 10 years since Minnesotans last saw David Bowie in person at his breathtaking Target Center concert, and who knows if and how long we'll ever see him again. A couple upcoming to-do's could give local fans a nice little fix in the meantime.
Lagoon Cinema in Uptown will screen the new documentary, "David Bowie Is," on Sept. 23 (info and tickets here). Check out the movie trailer below. The new film is timed to the opening – also Sept. 23 -- of a new exhibit of the same name a half-day's ride away from the Twin Cities at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Fans will have until January to make the trek to see it there.
Both the movie and the exhibit are centered on the British rock legend's fashion and imagery, and they originated last year at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The Guardian said of the exhibit at the V&A, "[It] transforms the human being into a mutant, the pop star into a poet, the pin-up into a culture vulture who prepared for his career, according to an early Decca press release, by 'reading through The Oxford Companion of [sic] Music, memorising much of it.' "
More Bowie news: Two new songs will be packaged into a new career-spanning anthology, "Nothing Has Changed," which drops Nov. 18.
