Bowie in SA: The Thin White Art Critic
19 January 2016 - 02:15
"I love this country," enthused David Bowie in a lengthy article he wrote after visiting South Africa in 1995. "It's very cool." The article, which appeared in the summer 1995 edition of English art magazine Modern Painters, offers a fascinating portrait of the performer’s spirited encounter with artists from the continent in newly democratic South Africa.
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