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New Jersey, in 1970 and another from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 2004. President Clinton presented him with a Kennedy Center Honor at theWhite House in 1997, recognising the excellence of his contribution to American culture. Dylan’s song ‘Things Have Changed’ from the film Wonder Boys (2000) won him an Academy Award in 2001. In addition to winning eleven Grammy Awards in rock, folk and general categories, he has achieved six entries in the Grammy Hall of Fame, which honours recordings of ‘qualitative or historical significance’ at least 25 years old. Dylan dates the origins of his work as a visual artist to the early 1960s. A few drawings reached the public gaze on album covers such as Music from Big Pink (1968). In 1974, Dylan spent two seminal months studying art with Norman Raeben, son of Sholem Aleichem. A book of 92 drawings titled Drawn Blank followed in 1994, and exhibitions of reworked versions of these images were mounted at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in Germany in 2007 and the following year at Halcyon Gallery in London. The Bob Dylan on Canvas exhibition at Halcyon Gallery marked a new phase of the artist’s career with his first-ever paintings in acrylics. As this fresh medium opened up to Dylan during an intensive burst of artistic activity, he completed a significant new group of some 50 paintings, The Brazil Series . In the subsequent exhibition at Copenhagen’s Statens Museum for Kunst from September 2010 to April 2011, visitors saw how Dylan had developed preliminary studies executed on tour in Brazil into richly coloured depictions of countryside, cityscape and various characters including musicians, card players and troublemakers. A further artistic landmark for Dylan was his first NewYork show in autumn 2011, when The Asia Series , which reflected on his time spent in China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea, was exhibited. During 2012, Dylan released his thirty-sixth studio album, Tempest , and was awarded America’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by Barack Obama. In February 2013 an exhibition of 23 new works on canvas, The New Orleans Series , opened at the Palazzo Reale in Milan. In August 2013, Bob Dylan: Face Value opened at the
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