Round and round the rumours fly…
The Dorling Kindersley published ‘Writers on Artists’, due later this year, will not include a foreword by David Bowie. Sites that already have the book available for pre-order have illustrated details on the book with what looks like an early proof cover seeming to add weight to the ‘Foreword by David Bowie’ theory, that’s it above.
However, despite the inaccuracy of this claim, there is a Bowie contribution in the book in the form of a piece David wrote for the Spring 1996 edition of Modern Painters. The original article was entitled ‘Basquiat?s Wave’, which was a fine piece on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘stuff’, by the man who played Andy Warhol in the film version of Basquiat?s life story. Just thought you should know.