DAVID BOWIE: IN MEMORIAM A POP STAR WHO TRANSCENDED MUSIC, ART AND FASHION

A visitor signed a condolence book for David Bowie at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands on Monday. The museum’s exhibition “David Bowie Is” is on view until March 13.CreditPeter Dejong/Associated Press

An exhibition at a museum in the Netherlands of David Bowie’s costumes, handwritten lyrics and other objects from his career opened to grieving fans on Monday, when it is normally closed.

“When we opened at 12 o’clock, there were already some 50 visitors waiting outside to come in,” said Karina Smrkovsky, the communications director forthe Groninger Museum, “and after that people have just been coming and coming.”

We’ve been very involved with him over the last months, so it’s as if a close friend has died, but a friend you haven’t met in person.

“David Bowie is,” an exhibition of about 300 objects that originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2013, runs through March 13 at the Groninger, in the northern Dutch town of Groningen.

“We’ve been very involved with him over the last months, so it’s as if a close friend has died, but a friend you haven’t met in person,” said Andreas Bluhm, the museum’s director. “That’s quite bizarre, and everyone working at this museum is personally touched.”

Visitors watched videos at the “David Bowie Is” exhibition in Groningen, the Netherlands, on Monday.CreditPeter Dejong/Associated Press

He said the museum’s website was experiencing overload on Monday morning as people tried to buy tickets. He added that the museum hoped to resolve the problem soon, and that it might expand opening hours to accommodate the interest.

The show has had more than 40,000 visitors since opening on Dec. 11. He said the museum’s guards and other staff members had come in on their day off so the museum could open.

“I’m very grateful for that on behalf of all the fans who want to be here,” he said. “That makes me happy on such a sad day.”

Thirteen years ago, David Bowie sat down for three interviews for CBS’s “60 Minutes,” but the full feature never made it to broadcast. Tonight, “60 Minutes” will feature unaired clips from those interviews, in which Mr. Bowie talked about his career beginnings, the character Ziggy Stardust and his songwriting process.

“Searching for music is like searching for God,” Mr. Bowie said in one of the interviews, which took place in Woodstock, New York. “There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable.”

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Arcade Fire led a second line parade through New Orleans to honor David Bowie on Saturday. Thousands of spectators, many dressed in colorful clothing, flooded the French Quarter to pay their respect to the musician, who died on Jan. 10 at age 69. Arcade Fire singer Win Butler wielded a megaphone and led the crowd in renditions of Mr. Bowie’s classics, including “Heroes,” “Oh! You Pretty Things” and “Suffragette City.”

Mr. Bowie, who was known for championing young talent, appeared on Arcade Fire’s 2013 album “Reflektor” and performed with the band in concert several times. Mr. Butler released a statement about Mr. Bowie’s death last week, saying: “We will take to the grave the moments we shared; talking, playing music and collaborating as some of the most profound and memorable moments of our lives. A true artist even in his passing, the world is more bright and mysterious because of him, and we will continue to shout prayers into the atmosphere he created.”

A street sign in downtown Austin has been altered to honor David Bowie.CreditJay Janner/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated Press

David Bowie has his own street in Austin — for now. A sticker reading “David Bowie St.” has replaced a street sign at Bowie Street and 5th Street in Austin’s Market District, and will remain up until Jan. 19.

The sticker was created by Roland Swenson, the co-founder of South by Southwest, and Jason Carter, the owner of the Austin store Wicked Signs. “After [Bowie] passed away this week, I thought to myself, ‘We’ll never have Bowie at SXSW, but we can still have David Bowie St.,’” Mr. Swenson wrote in a statement.

The Austin Transportation Department reportedly will leave up the sticker until Jan. 19 to memorialize Mr. Bowie. However, petitions have already been mounted to make the name change permanent.

On Jan. 11, David Bowie videos on Vevo were watched 51 million times,breaking a record for same-day views by a single artist that was set by Adele in Oct. 2015, when “Hello” debuted.

Mr. Bowie’s final video, for the song “Lazarus” from his new album “Blackstar,” was the most-watched clip with 11.1 million views.

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