This interview was published in The New York Times on June 14, 1998. It is reprinted here in full, with an updated introduction. IN 1998, David Bowie sat down for a couple of hours to talk about the art he made and collected. Like other British rockers of his generation, Mr. Bowie had gone to art school, back when he was still called David Jones. At the time we met, he was helping run an art-book publishing company, 21, and moonlighting as an occasional interviewer for Modern Painters, the British magazine. He welcomed the chance to discuss art. He was also exhibiting his own work, with some trepidation, as he acknowledged in the interview. His pictures suggested a fondness for Picabia, Schiele and the German-born British painter Frank Auerbach, among others. He was candid, friendly and at ease talking about art, which came across as a pleasure and genuine passion, as if the role of artist-connoisseur were not just another identity Mr. Bowie donned and shed but something truly near to the heart of David Jones. MICHAEL KIMMELMAN You studied art in school. You even started collecting early. DAVID BOWIE Yeah, I collected very early on. I have a couple … Meer lezen over Michael Kimmelman – David Bowie on His Favorite Artists