David Bowie Is 3/25/18 The Brooklyn Museum

First time visiting this museum. Cruised through the vast permanent collection to get to the crowded but enlightening exhibit on The Thin White Duke. The exhibit rolled out in sections with an accompanying audio tour that synced to the video playing in the room. Bowie in Beatles-soaked England, cheesy "futuristic" Space Oddity, gender-bending glam-drogyny, Berlin trilogy with Iggy,Lou, and Eno, and uncompromising artistry through it all. David Bowie's career offered a template for diversity inclusion that seems to have sunk into a black hole in 2018 U.S. Bowie's passing on 1/10/16 sent shock waves through the music world and had me revisit the chameleonic stages that formed my appreciation path. "Can't Help Thinkin About Me" early single played by my sister that I heard through the wall. The Man Who Fell To Earth movie that took a little boy from it's cool to be an astronaut to space is scary. Golden Years on 45rpm showed that a white guy could get funky, thanks AM radio. My parents taking us to the Broadway version of Elephant Man with Bowie as John Merrick. My college years devoted to all things peripherally attached to Brian Eno and time spent with Hunky Dory, Low, Alladinsane, and Heroes ( what happened to that 45 of Bowie singing Heroes in German?). The over the top success of Let's Dance and The Serious Moonlight Tour at the Hartford Civic Center. Who could forget the restless, post -over the top success of  Tin Machine and the Toads show with one of the Sales brothers playing slide with a monstrous metallic vibrator. One video snippet of a producer got to the heart of it, "we had long hair, we took drugs, but Bowie added a gender fluidity component to youth rebellion that struck a chord with so many... And then there was the music." RIP Ziggy.