From May 9 though to July 15 to New York’s Museum of Arts and Design will be presenting a show called David Bowie, Artist.

It’s a multi-platform retrospective which seeks to reframe Bowie’s long, varied career as that of a fine artist working primarily in performance. A press release explains:

“From his roots in such performance-based practices as cabaret, mime, and avant-garde theater, to Ziggy Stardust, his revolutionary tour that synthesized theater, music, and contemporary art into a rock spectacle, as well as his innovative video collaborations, and his work in cinema and theater, David Bowie, Artist presents Bowie as one of the most iconoclastic cultural producers of the 20th century.”

Sounds fair enough to us. The museum’s 6th floor education centre will play host to a number of “multimedia kiosks” celebrating Bowie’s work, but the real core of this retrospective is the cinema program, which will be running on select Thursdays and Fridays over the period June 3-30. It’s a great opportunity to catch some of Bowie’s most memorable celluloid appearances on the big screen – Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, The Last Temptation of Christ, Labyrinth, Basquiat, The Man Who Fell To Earth and The Hunger are all set to feature, as well as a new 35mm print of DA Pennebaker’s classic documentary Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and a rare outing for The Linguini Incident, apparently “a lost gem of NYC 1990s romantic comedies” that’s currently unavailable on DVD.

More information here [via NME].