Even David Bowie's death was a beautiful, cryptic work of purposeful art

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LOS ANGELES —We still don't know exactly what type of cancer took David Bowie.

The absence of that last detail — fragile but still intact since Sunday — preserves a bit of mystery, of the belief that Bowie was somehow extra-mortal. The man who made dazzling, defiant art of everything he did left a white space on his final work. Can we maybe not mess with it?

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Alas, it couldn't possibly last. Not in this culture, anyway.

Ivo Van Hove, a Belgian theatre director who worked with Bowie on his off-Broadway show Lazarus, told a Dutch newspaper that Bowie revealed he had liver cancer at the time of his diagnosis a year and a half ago. Others, like longtime friend and collaborator Brian Eno, said Bowie's death came as "a complete surprise." Read more...

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