THE CURRENT DECADE
I’m Not There , written and directed by Todd Haynes and inspired by the life and music of Dylan, was released in August 2007. An exhibition entitled The Drawn Blank Series , which contained reworked versions of Dylan’s sketches and drawings, opened at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in Germany in October. 2008 | In April 2008, 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 reworked versions, premiered at the Halcyon Gallery in London in the summer. 2009 | Dylan’s album Together Through Life entered the charts at top ten in 19 countries around the world, hitting number one in both America and Britain. In October he released Christmas In The Heart , his first collection of Christmas songs; all of the album’s proceeds were donated to charity in perpetuity, raising well over a million dollars for good causes around the world.
Dylan remains an eminent voice in our national conversation and around the world.’ On 10 September Dylan released his thirty-fifth studio album, Tempest , and from November his controversial Revisionist Art Series was exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery . 2013 | On 5 February 2013, the Palazzo Reale in Milan presented The New Orleans Series , a group of oil on canvas works curated by Francesco Bonami. In March Dylan was elected American Honorary Member of the American Academy of the Arts and Letters. Face Value , an exhibition of pastel portraits, opened at the National Portrait Gallery on 24 August, representing Dylan’s first museum show in London. At the same time, Sony Music released the tenth volume of The Bootleg Series , ‘Another Self Portrait’. In November, Dylan’s lifelong fascination with metalwork came into the public arena at Halcyon Gallery’s exhibition Mood Swings , presenting his first collection of iron works.
2010 | On 11 February Dylan performed ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ live
from the White House during the broadcast A Celebration of Music
From the Civil Rights Movement. Later that month, Dylan was awarded the National Medal of Art by the American government. On 9 September, Dylan unveiled 40 new acrylic and oil paintings in the Brazil Series at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Denmark. 2011 | In April 2011 Dylan played in China and Vietnam for the first time. His next group of paintings, The Asia Series , opened at the Gagosian Gallery in New York in September. 2012 | On 29 May Dylan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour; Barack Obama said: ‘A modern-day troubadour, Dylan established himself as one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. The rich poetry of his lyrics opened up new possibilities for popular song and inspired generations. His melodies have brought ancient tradition into the modern age. More than 50 years after his career began, Bob
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