Stories, myths, and narratives – as the Bob Dylan Center opened this May, another Bob Dylan exhibition was coming to a close. What stories are these two Dylan museums telling & what do they reveal about how Bob Dylan wants to be seen?
In part two of this series on the crafting of Bob Dylan's legacy, we take a look at the stories told by two very different museums dedicated to Bob Dylan's work: the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, and the Retrospectrum exhibition of Dylan's visual art. Laura interviews the curators of the BDC, Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, and talks about how Dylan the Painter has become part of the Dylan Myth.
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Watch my Florida paper on Time in Dylan’s music, paintings, and Shadow Kingdom here.
Here’s the article “In His Own Words: Why Bob Dylan Paints”.
Find out more about the Bob Dylan Center here.
The Retrospectrum catalogue (£85) is available here.
Read Rebecca Slaman’s review of Retrospectrum here.