Bob Dylan’s paintings will be exhibited in Denmark, as we mentioned here. He has also been commissioned to create art pieces with iron and lead. Earlier this summer, Dylan said:
"I've always drawn and painted but, up until recently, nobody's taken an interest. There's never been any support for it.
"I've had a museum exhibit, I have an association with a London gallery, and there will probably be another exhibition of new works in another European museum in 2010.
"Now I'm scrambling to keep up. I've been commissioned to do paintings and they want me to work with iron and lead."
It is unclear if these sculptures will be part of the Danish exhibit.
Earlier this year, when Bob Dylan released his album, “Together Through Life”, he became to oldest living person to have a number one album. In the U.K., however, 92 year-old Vera Lynn topped the charts this past week, and now holds that particular record. Four remastered albums by The Beatles also appeared in the top ten.
As predicted here, the season finale of “True Blood" featured the Dylan song, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”.
Joan Baez was interviewed in The Telegraph, while at the Newport Folk Festival last month. There is some Dylan content. You can read it here. Below is a duet of Dylan and Baez from the unreleased version of the "Hard Rain" television special, 1976.
Chris Smither covers Dylan’s “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” on his new album, “Time Stands Still”. The album will be released at the end of the month.
Docurama is having a tenth anniversary film festival at New York’s IFC Center. “Don’t Look Back” - a documentary of Dylan’s 1965 U.K. tour - is being screened December 4-6. According to the documentary.org site, a special on-line presentation of "Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back" will also be available for a limited two-week window, beginning on September 22.
The Village Voice posted the Q- and A from a vintage 1965 Bob Dylan press conference. Sample quotes :
Q: Then you had a rock and roll band in high school.
A: I had a banana band in high school.
Q: Bobby, we know you changed your name. Come on now. What's your real name?
A: Philip Ochs. I'm gonna change it back again when I see it pays.
Q: Bob, to sum up -- don't you have any important philosophy for the world?
A: I don't drink hard liquor, if that's what you mean.
Q: No. The world in general. You and the world.
A: Are you kidding? The world don't need me. Christ. I'm only five feet ten. The world could get along fine without me. Don't cha know, everybody dies. It don't matter how important you think you are. Look at Shakespeare. Napoleon. Edgar Allen Poe, for that matter. They're all dead, right?
For more info: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan on TV, Don't Look Back wiki.
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