William Boyd: how David Bowie and I hoaxed the art world

David Bowie didn’t just publish my fake biography of an invented artist, he also wrote the jacket blurb and launched it – on April Fool’s day – at Jeff Koons’ studioThe awful news of David Bowie’s shocking and untimely death made me take out my journal and search for the first time I met him. It turned out to be on 22 February 1994 at an editorial-board dinner for the art magazine Modern Painters. Here’s what I wrote: “Modern Painters dinner tonigh