Bob Dylan Miami Art Show Features 180 Works By Nobel Laureate

Bob Dylan has been telling stories through songs for 60 years. But recently America’s master lyricist has also captured moments in a new series of paintings that, just like his songs, are intimate and a bit of a mystery, Adriana Gomez Licon reported for the Associated Press (AP) late.

Photo Insert: Installation view of “Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum” at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, 2019

The most comprehensive exhibition of the Nobel laureate’s visual art to be held in the US goes on display on Tuesday in Miami at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. Forty new pieces by the 80-year-old songwriter will be showcased for the first time.

The exhibition with more than 180 acrylics, watercolors, drawings, and ironwork sculptures will kick off the same week as Art Basel Miami Beach and will run through April 17 with no future stops announced yet. Tickets are $16 and are booked by hourly slots.

“Retrospectrum” includes some of Dylan’s works from the 1960s, starting with pencil sketches he made of his songs such as “Highway 61 Revisited” and “Like a Rolling Stone.”

His works, many borrowed from private collections around the world, include abstract sketches from the 1970s and covers six large rooms. But the vast majority was created in the past 15 years.

"He was recognized in every possible way as a writer, as a composer, as a singer, as a performer, and so on. It is now that the audience sees also the last element,” said Shai Baitel, who conceived the show as the artistic director of the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, where it debuted.

“Dylan is able to express himself in so many ways.”

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