The David Bowie Centre

16 January 2026

Leah Kardos and Tony Visconti examining David Bowie's Blackstar notes at the David Bowie Centre

An afternoon at the David Bowie Centre at V&A East Storehouse with Tony Visconti and Donny McCaslin, looking at material from the archive. Instruments, equipment, and Bowie's working notes for Blackstar.

I have written a good deal about those recordings. Reading the notes next to two of the people who made them is a different kind of knowing.

Tony Visconti pointing out an instrument from the archive

Photographs by Arsalan Mohammad and Leah Kardos.

© Leah Kardos