32 MONDO SCRIPTO
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their list of ‘Best Albums of the Decade’ with Bob Dylan’s ‘Love And Theft’ coming in at Number 2. 2010 On 13th February, Halcyon Gallery, London launched Dylan’s first ever exhibition of paintings on canvas. In September of 2010, Dylan’s acrylic works on canvas were displayed in a one-man exhibition at Denmark’s National Gallery, the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. The Brazil Series was specifically created by Dylan for the exhibition. On 18th October 2010, Columbia Records releasedVolume 9 of his ‘Bootleg Series,TheWitmark Demos.’This comprised 47 demo recordings of songs taped between 1962 and 1964 for Dylan’s earliest music publishers, and received universal acclaim. In the same week, Sony Legacy released ‘Bob Dylan: The Original Mono Recordings’, a box set which for the first time presented Dylan’s eight earliest albums. In November 2010, a major exhibition of selected limited edition and original graphics from The Drawn Blank Series premiered in Tokyo. 2011 On 24th May, Dylan turned 70.The event was marked with numerous symposiums around the world. Dylan, ignoring the hoopla, stuck to the basics and continued touring, playing for the first time in Taiwan, China andVietnam as well as a sold out European tour. 2012 Besides his usual touring schedule, Dylan completed work on his 36th studio album, ‘Tempest’, released on September 11th, 2012. On 29th May 2012, Bob Dylan received The Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour. 2013 As well as embarking on his worldwide summer tour, ‘Americanarama’, Bob Dylan exhibited new works from his New Orleans Series at the prestigious Palazzo Reale in Milan, the Royal Palace that once held the city’s government, but now hosts major exhibitions including artists Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso. In November 2013, Bob Dylan’s iron works collection Mood Swings launched in a major solo exhibition at Halcyon Gallery. 2014 During 2014, Dylan again exhibited with Halcyon Gallery, showing Revisionist Art and Side Tracks , a running series of over 300 prints, each uniquely hand-embellished by the ar tist. Here he revisits the evocative Train Tracks image from The Drawn Blank Series , re-colouring, re-configuring and re-imagining it, revealing a flicker of his continuing journey, at once repetitive and ever-changing. In October of that year, Simon and Schuster published the massive 960 page edition of Dylan’s LYRICS: SINCE 1962, edited by literary giant Christopher Ricks.The book was an instant success, selling out of its initial run in preorder. Later that year, Columbia Records released the eleventh chapter of The Bootleg Series, the highly anticipated,
2003 With producer/director Larry Charles, Dylan co-wrote and starred in the film ‘Masked and Anonymous’, which was released in 2003. 2004 Dylan received an honorary doctorate of music from St Andrews University, Scotland on 23rd June 2004. October saw the publication of the first volume of his three par t autobiography, ‘Chronicles:Volume One’, which spent nineteen weeks on ‘The NewYork Times’ best-seller list. 2005 The film documentary, ‘No Direction Home’, directed by Mar tin Scorsese, was shown on BBC 2 in Britain and PBS in America on 26th September 2005. Concentrating on the years between Dylan’s arrival in NewYork City in 1961 and his motorcycle crash in 1966, the film was an international success both with critics and fans. 2006 Dylan’s for ty-four th album, ‘Modern Times’, released in 2006, gave him his first American number one album in thir ty years and won a Grammy Award in 2007 for best contemporary folk album. In spring, Dylan began his DJ career hosting the weekly ‘Theme Time Radio Hour’ show for XM Satellite Radio in America and BBC Radio 2 in Britain. 2007 Released in August, the award-winning film, ‘I’m Not There’, written and directed by Todd Haynes, was inspired by the life and music of Dylan. An exhibition entitled The Drawn Blank Series , which contained re-worked versions of Dylan’s sketches and drawings, opened in the autumn at the Kunstsammlungen Museum, in Chemnitz, Germany. 2008 In April, Dylan received a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize ‘for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power’. A major exhibition of selected works from The Drawn Blank Series , together with new re-worked versions, premiered at Halcyon Gallery in London in the summer, receiving huge critical acclaim. A selection of limited edition graphics from the exhibition were released in a select number of UK galleries with many editions selling out immediately upon release. 2009 On 15th April, Dylan aired his 100th episode in the US of his ‘Theme Time Radio Hour’. On 28th April Dylan released his 45th album ‘Together Through Life’ which débuted at number one in the UK album char ts, 38 years and five months after his last chart-topper ‘New Morning’ in 1970.This broke the record for the longest gap between solo number one albums in the UK.The album also went to number one in the US, as well as several other countries worldwide. On 12th October Dylan launched his first ever Christmas album – Christmas In The Hear t – with all royalties being donated to TheWorld Food Programme and Crisis UK; helping to fight hunger worldwide by providing meals to the needy over the holiday season. On 17th December Newsweek announced
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iconic songs, handwritten in pen on paper and accompanied with a corresponding drawing in graphite, also on paper. As Tom Piazza, a celebrated novelist and writer on American music, writes in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue, “Dylan’s restlessly creative mind is never wholly satisfied, and those familiar with these songs will find surprise at many a new turn of phrase.The unexpected couplings of these works and images offer a surprisingly intimate door into each song, adding dimension, delight and insight into the artist’s relation to his own work”. In 2019 a landmark retrospective exhibition, Retrospectrum , featuring Dylan’s ar tistic output to date opened at MAM Shanghai, before beginning a tour that will cover Asia, Europe and the USA. The exhibition, which later opened in Beijing at Today’s Ar t Museum in July 2020, re-examines The Drawn Blank Series , The New Orleans Series , Mood Swings , The Beaten Path , and works from Mondo Scripto . 2020 In June, Dylan released his 39 th studio album, Rough and RowdyWays. An international sensation, the album hit the Top Ten in 15 countries, including #1 char t entries in the Germany, Ireland,The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and The United Kingdom.The Guardian called the album a “testament to his eternal greatness,” while the LATimes dubbed it a “savage pulp noir masterpiece.”
2015 On February 3, Dylan released his thirty-sixth studio album, SHADOWS INTHE NIGHT, a collection of American standard ballads, many popularized by Frank Sinatra.The album was a critical and popular success around the world entering the char ts in the top ten in over nineteen countries. As Andy Gill, in the Independent wrote, the recordings “have a lingering, languid charm, which… help to liberate the material from the rusting manacles of big-band and cabaret mannerisms.” A few days later, Bob Dylan was honoured as the 25th MusiCares Person of theYear at a fundraiser in Los Angeles.The event was the most successful fundraiser in MusiCares history. 2016 From January until March, Face Value, a selection of twelve large por traits, was exhibited at Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio, USA. In April, Bob Dylan:The New Orleans Series opened at New Orleans Museum of Ar t, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Face Value later made its debut in Germany for the first time in May, at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, in Chemnitz, Germany. In October 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. 2018 Mondo Scripto opened at Halcyon Gallery in London. The exhibition presented a selection of Bob Dylan’s most
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