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Mondo Scripto - Lyrics and Drawings by Bob Dylan Press Cuttings
The Daily Telegraph
6 October 2018
The Daily Telegraph Saturday 6 October 2018 *** 7
News
Dylan in pictures ... but
which song is which? B F
A
C
G H
D E
I
Dylan’s most famous lyrics they are a-changin’
changes to the lyrics of previously fa- The exhibition significantly rewritten are: Gotta Serve lated by Prof Christopher Ricks, the appear to give these alterations a more
Nobel winner substantially miliar songs, in some cases extensively features sketches Somebody (1979); If You See Her, Say former Oxford professor of poetry, Answers permanent status.
rewrites songs and draws rewriting the words of tracks such as
Tangled Up In Blue and Rainy Day
by Bob Dylan
inspired by lyrics
Hello (1975); Rainy Day Women #12 &
35 (1966); When I Paint My Masterpiece
who argued that Dylan’s work stands
comparison with that of the Romantic A) Lay, Lady, Lay;
He has also included sketches in-
spired by each song, referencing a mo-
sketches to illustrate them Women #12 & 35. from some of his (1971) and You’re Gonna Make Me Lone- poet John Keats. B) Just Like a ment in the lyric to help illuminate his
for new London exhibition The changes show that Dylan – who
was awarded the Nobel Prize for litera-
best-known songs some When You Go (1975).”
In one example he has changed lines
When he was asked in 1965 whether
he regarded himself as a poet, Dylan fa-
Woman;
C) Maggie’s
words. These include one of Napoleon,
echoing his mention of a “Napoleon in
By Patrick Sawer ture in 2016 – continues to refuse to be in Tangled Up In Blue from: “And I was mously countered: “I think of myself Farm; rags” in his 1965 song Like A Rolling
pinned down over the interpretation of standin’ on the side of the road/Rain more as a song-and-dance man.” D) Blowin’ in the Stone, frequently taken to be a refer-
FOR decades, fans and academics alike his work. fallin’ on my shoes/Heading out for the With his exhibition at the Halcyon Wind; ence to the singer himself.
have pored over the lyrics to the songs The catalogue to the Mondo Scripto ‘While many East Coast/Lord knows I’ve paid some Gallery in New Bond Street, Dylan is E) Knockin’ on “Dylan has said that, just as Shake-
of Bob Dylan. Now the singer himself exhibition – the singer himself came up dues gettin’ through/Tangled up in again encouraging his audience to ask Heaven’s Door; speare’s words were meant to be per-
has reopened the debate over the with the name – states: “One of Bob Dy- songs have blue” to “And he was standin’ on the questions about what art is and where F) The Times formed, his words are meant to be
meaning of his work, by changing key lan’s most critically acclaimed songs small word side of the road/Rain fallin on his rock’n’roll stands alongside it. They Are listened to when sung to music,” said
words and entire lines to some of his Tangled Up In Blue (1975) has been al- shoes/Heading out for the East Coast/ Paul Green, the president of the Hal- a-Changin’; Mr Green. “But with these graphite
best-known songs. most completely redrafted for the exhi- and syntax Radio blasting the news coming cyon, said: “Like many great artists Dy- G) Like A Rolling drawings he is giving us an insight into
As part of an exhibition in London, bition. Dylan sees his songs as never changes, through tangled up in blue”. lan is once again going through a Stone; the songs, as if he his helping us to de-
H) Hurricane;
Dylan has written out many of his most
famous lyrics by hand, accompanying
being complete and has continually re-
worked the lyrics of this single since it others The exhibition reopens the debate
about whether his work – and that of
period of reflection to re-address his
body of work as he grows older.” I) All Along the
code his work. These sketches are very
poignant; some are biographical, some
them with sketches to illustrate their was released. have been other great musicians – can be re- Dylan, 77, has long taken to changing Watchtower are illuminating an aspect of that song.”
content or meaning.
But, in keeping with his mercurial
“While many of the songs in this ex-
hibition have small word and syntax
significantly garded as poetry in its own right or is
merely enjoyable as throwaway pop.
the occasional word to a song during
live performances, but writing down
Mondo Scripto is at the Halcyon Gal-
lery, New Bond Street, London, from
reputation, Dylan has made significant changes, other songs that have been rewritten’ That debate was famously encapsu- such changes for public viewing would Oct 9 and through November.
Allegro with a lot more brio, how
classical music is speeding up
By Victoria Ward rington and Simon Rattle’s Beethoven tury, adding: “There is now a feeling
symphonies did not replace older ver- classical music takes its place alongside
CLASSICAL music is becoming faster sions, such as the work of Herbert von other genres with more varied styles,
as conductors adapt to modern tastes, Karajan, but complemented them. with flexibility and excitement.”
leading figures in the industry figures He pointed out that concerts today He was responding to a letter from a
have revealed. were often more informal, held in Daily Telegraph reader, who asked:
As concert goers have changed, so smaller halls with smaller orchestras. “Why do recent recordings of classical
have the performances, with tempos And the modern tendency to clap be- music seem to be performed at a tempo
becoming quicker and more exciting. appreciably faster than older record-
Sir Nicholas Kenyon, the managing
director of the Barbican Centre, said
‘It is no longer a question of ings?”
Sir Roger said “slow” movements in
that there had been an attempt to get worshipping at a shrine but Haydn and Mozart had become faster,
away from “reverential performances”.
“We seem to prefer transparent,
experiencing the music in which he agreed was “a very good
thing”. He added: “It’s extremely impor-
light, bright sound and it works with many different forms’ tant to play the music at the right speeds
the work of many composers; Bach, and we now understand far more about
Handel, Mozart …” he said. “We can tween movements was an example of these speeds than we used to.”
demonstrate that ‘average speeds’ have performance becoming more relaxed. Ivan Hewett, the Daily Telegraph’s
increased in recent decades. “It is no longer a question of wor- classical music writer, said: “Since the
“It’s a basic change in taste from the shipping at a classical music shrine,” he Eighties, there’s been a very influential
rather weighty concert style of previ- said. “It is about experiencing the mu- trend to get back to a more ‘authentic’
ous years towards something that is sic in its many different forms.” way of performing Haydn and Mozart,
more light, airy and flexible, which to Sir Nicholas, the director of the BBC which the composers might actually
my mind, is a good thing.” Proms from 1996 to 2007, said certain have recognised.”
Sir Nicholas added that works such as changes were a reaction against what
the British conductors Sir Roger Nor- had become the norm in the 19th cen- Letters: Page 23
Artist’s ‘seance’
prompts yawns
instead of screams
By Laura FitzPatrick
A GALLERY room at twilight filled with
eerie wall hangings and 7ft iron gates
could set the perfect scene for holding
hands and calling on spirits.
But Martin Eder, a German artist, is
being criticised for his poor attempt at
holding a “spiritualistic seance” at
Vauxhall’s Beaconsfield Gallery as part
of the opening his new exhibition.
Apparently comprising of mindful-
ness experiments and magic tricks, the
evening left the group of participants
more confused than spooked.
One visitor said: “I’d expected a little
more atmosphere.”
He added: “[A jar] was passed around
the circle so that everyone could spit
into it and combine our essences, but
spitting is unpleasant, so only half of
ANDREW WHITTON
the participants did.”
It ended abruptly when one woman
called out Eder’s behaviour while he
tried to reveal what everyone had writ-
ten on secret slips of paper. The woman
claims she saw a man standing behind
Gospel games After performing Stand By Me at the wedding her when she was writing.
of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, The Kingdom Choir will When she insisted that Eder re-
star at the close of the Invictus Games in Sydney on Oct 27. vealed what extra words she wrote on
the slip, he could not.
Mondo Scripto - Lyrics and Drawings by Bob Dylan Press Cuttings
The Daily Telegraph
9 October 2018
The Daily Telegraph Tuesday 9 October 2018 S *** 27
Arts
Dylan:
They
conform to
his idea of a
good
the artist
drawing,
which is
simply, ‘the
right lines in
who still
the right
places’
keeps us
guessing illustrations is almost a piece of
conceptual art.
Dylan, who dropped out of college at
the age of 19 to play music full time, had
an instinct right from the beginning
For a new show and book, the that the role of the modern artist was as
much about playing with his or her
Nobel winner has drawn pictures identity as it was with manipulating
words or tunes or images. This book is
inspired by 60 of his songs. Mark part of that ongoing process.
BOB DYLAN
In a short accompanying interview,
Hudson has an exclusive first look he describes the song as “a form of
S
storytelling that changes from minute
to minute, and adapts itself to different
ay what you like about the songs.” They conform to his idea of a Black and white: Bob Dylan writes his circumstances”. If a painting, he argues,
world’s greatest songwriter good drawing, which is simply, “the lyrics, which appear with his drawings is too “fixed and permanent” to
– the only popular musician right lines in the right places”. for Like a Rolling Stone, above, represent this transitory medium, a
awarded the Nobel Prize in Occupying the middle ground is Hurricane, below, The Times They Are drawing, it seems, has the speed and
literature – Bob Dylan has Dylan’s visualisation of The Times They A-Changin’, left, and Just Like a Woman freedom to capture meanings and
proved a genius at Are A-Changin’. Here, we see a Trump- inferences that may change.
confounding the expectations of his like figure standing at a window in Among the influences on these
admirers. Dylan, the protest singer, what looks like the Oval Office, images, Dylan cites Dürer, Reginald
never conformed to the hopes of the surveying a rioting mob outside. Marsh, an early 20th-century artist, and
liberal Left. He outraged the folkies by Elsewhere, the meanings appear Rembrandt – “especially his drawings
“going electric” in 1965, and he obscure to the point of obtuseness. A of St Albans cathedral” – a rather basic
confused everybody by embracing Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall is drawing of the building is in the Royal
evangelical Christianity in 1978. represented by a besuited man poking Collection, though it doesn’t betray any
And this instinct for doing the out a bleeding tongue, presumably immediate relevance to Dylan’s images.
unexpected is nowhere more apparent referring to the “ten thousand talkers An exhibition is to be held in
than in his art. The first exhibition of whose tongues were all broken”. Such Shanghai next year, with immersive
his work was held in Germany in 2007, images seem to be going out of their installations referring to key moments
and he has since held widely attended way to avoid illuminating the songs on in his career. If the precise form is “still
shows around the world, with a a grander level. in development”, the one thing you can
distinctive and often very elliptical Yet if your first thought is that the be sure about is that it won’t be quite
visual style that combines his love of 77-year-old Dylan has lost the plot, or is what you’re expecting.
mythic Americana with the raw feel of simply taking the mickey, the more you It’s that enigmatic quality, that sense
German Expressionism. keep looking, the more it all starts to that we’ll never quite work out what
Mondo Scripto, Dylan’s latest project
– both an exhibition and a book – is a
Dylan’s paintings and of songwriting with its venomously
unspooling verses addressed to a spoilt
make sense. There’s a consistency in
the flat drawing style and their
same thing.
The lyrics, meanwhile, which have
makes him tick, that will keep us
endlessly going back to Dylan, whether
series of drawings inspired by 60 of his drawings often leave you rich girl on her uppers. literalness that becomes quite surreal. been inscribed on the headed paper of to his words, his tunes or his art.
songs, each accompanied by hand-
written lyrics. The exhibition, which
scratching your head at And what do I find? A rather ordinary
drawing of a uniformed 19th-century
René Magritte famously painted a pipe
with the legend “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”
the iron foundry in Dayton, Ohio,
where Dylan has his sculptures made
The Daily Telegraph has been invited to their apparent opacity grandee. At first, I’m not so much – this isn’t a pipe. For Hurricane, about – with Dylan frequently “updating”
Mondo Scripto is at Halcyon Gallery,
144-146 New Bond Street, London until
preview exclusively, opens at London’s disappointed as utterly flummoxed. an African-American boxer wrongly them as he goes along – aren’t supposed Nov 30; halcyongallery.com. Halcyon
Halcyon Gallery today. Could this be the “diplomat” with convicted of murder, Dylan provides a to be read for pleasure. The knotty Gallery is giving away 50 copies of the
If it sounds straightforward, it is far whom the subject of the song used to handgun. Yes, it’s just a gun, but it’s awkwardness of the handwriting is all book of Mondo Scripto to readers. Details
from being a friendly gesture to the ride on her “chrome horse”, or is that also a representation of a gun inside part of the effect. What appears at first bobdylanbook@halcyongallery.com
fans. Just as millions have turned up to actually Napoleon? Of course, the Bob Dylan’s head, which isn’t quite the to be just a rather clunky set of
his tours to find their favourite songs “Napoleon in rags” of the song. But isn’t
rendered unrecognisable, as lyrics are that supposed to be a metaphor?
spat out in unfamiliar patterns and time Flicking on through the book, you
signatures randomly changed, so find more “interpretations” of songs
Dylan’s paintings and drawings often that are, at first sight, crushingly literal.
leave you scratching your head at their Lay, Lady, Lay is represented by a very
apparent opacity. He’s trying to say straight drawing of the big brass bed on
something, you feel – if I could just which Dylan urges his lover to lie with
work out what it was. him, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door by, yes,
Opening Mondo Scripto, I turned to a picture of a man knocking on a door.
one of Dylan’s greatest songs, Like a “These images,” Dylan says, “come
Rolling Stone, which changed the rules straight from the songs. They fit the
A party full of fascinating people
that you never actually get to meet
Exhibition Body double:
Tamara de
Lempicka’s
Modern Couples emblematic nude
Barbican Art Gallery portrait of two
lovers, Les Deux
Amies (1923),
★★★★★ features in the
By Mark Hudson Barbican’s new
exhibition
‘L
iberated, Radical, Obsessional!”
shout the posters for this
celebration of the golden
couples of modern art. The explosive
relationships of the likes of Pablo
Picasso and Dora Maar, Frida Kahlo
and Diego Rivera, Max Ernst and
Dorothea Tanning, did not – the
Barbican’s show argues – simply give
rise to the art that rocked the 20th
century, but engendered experimental
ways of living and loving that were to from the perspective of the bedroom text before we move on to the next.
have a huge impact on social mores in as much as the studio. If only. Alarm Some of these rapid-fire sketches do
the second half of that century, and bells start ringing in the first room, intrigue. Dalí’s passionate friendship
have touched all our lives in one way where we jump in a matter of feet with Lorca produced some lively
or the other since. from 19th-century French sculptors surreal drawings by Lorca and a wild,
With a tag-line of Modern Art, Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel spattered abstract painting nothing
Modern Love, the show assembles a (who seem fairly evenly matched), to like Dalí’s signature dreamscapes.
whacking 40 couples to make its case. Marcel Duchamp, the father of The show’s most startling discovery,
Many are famous: besides those above, conceptual art, and one Maria Martins. though, is German artist Lavinia
there’s Man Ray and Lee Miller, and If Duchamp’s eight-year affair with Schultz’s magnificently bonkers
Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele the little-known Brazilian sculptor has costumes for partner Walter Holdt’s
Münter. There are a few surprises, hardly been seen as crucial to his art, experimental dance performances.
such as Salvador Dalí and the great the fact that his famous reverse casts The mentally challenged Schultz
Spanish poet Federico García Lorca of female genitalia were made from ended up killing both Holdt and
– really? And quite a few downright her nether regions does show that her herself, but theirs wasn’t the only
obscurities, including Lavinia Schulz practical input was nothing if not “mad” relationship in this show. There
and Walter Holdt – who? involved. However, it’s hard to see are hints of megalomania, hyper-
There’s been a tendency to regard what impact he had on her quirky intensity and even cruelty throughout.
these kind of uber-bohemian pairings expressionist sculpture. Similarly, Yet the relationships never catch
in terms of male geniuses with their although the relationship between fire here. It’s impossible, ultimately, to
talented but generally long-suffering Picasso and surrealist photographer say how much these couples’ antics
womenfolk tagging along. But with a Maar produced some of the most have affected us – if, say, it’s somehow
growing interest in art by women, powerful portraits of the 20th century, Picasso’s fault that someone’s dad went
now dramatically heightened in the you’d hardly know that from the off with the au pair – because while
#MeToo landscape, these are being handful of rather ordinary works – a we’re told throughout how liberated,
seen more as equal partnerships. This few by each of them – assembled here. radical and obsessional they were, we
also applies to same-sex relationships Far from providing the promised aren’t made to feel it. The effect is like
and ménages à trois, as well as to some explorations of “intimate and creative being at a party packed with
partners in these relationships who worlds”, the show does not have space, fascinating people, but never actually
would not normally be considered with so many couples, to provide more getting to meet any of them.
artists at all. than a thumbnail sketch of each, their
On paper, the show looks like a racy achievements spelt out in a couple of Until Jan 27; 020 7638 4141; barbican.org
romp through early Modernism, seen paragraphs of stilted academic wall
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▶ Goop-type lifestyle madness, but In person, Roberts does look a little and I met on that movie. We watched
she wants to talk about playing board like your favourite Upper East Side about five minutes of it, and there’s
games. Mahjong, the Chinese tile game, shrink. She wears acrylic-framed guns firing — all the stuff you forget
is the current obsession. glasses and errs on the casual side of about. I looked over, and they all
“My longtime friend and stylist What are you going to smart casual. Today she’s in a 1980s looked horrified. I said to Danny,
Elizabeth Stewart plays mahjong. We take away from meeting logo sweatshirt with “Choose Love” ‘Maybe this isn’t a good move.’ So we
were on a job in Italy, and I finally said, splashed across it. I think it’s ironic, but turned that off.”
‘OK, explain this to me once and for me? Legos, right? it might not be. Even with Esmail in the It is in some ways disappointing
all, because I’m completely confused.’ room and Homecoming the subject at to discover that a silver-screen super-
So we started learning it, and I came of listening. I was separating colours. hand, she is more than happy to talk star makes those kind of parenting
back home and recruited some It’s the only way to do it.” Psych- about her back catalogue. Her children bloopers, watches her films with her
girlfriends. Then I found a mahjong ologists, I tell her, would probably be are now 14 (the twins) and 11, and kids and spends hours listening to
teacher who came to the house. Three able to read something into that — but I together the family are beginning to podcasts while colour-coding Legos.
years later, it’s my favourite game. Play am not a psychologist. work through the Roberts collection. On the other hand, this kind of we’re-
it every Tuesday.” “Well, I’m a closet therapist,” she “They know what I do now. You’d just-like-you full disclosure is also
She becomes most animated when says. “We actors, it’s what we do. We be surprised — it took quite a while. the way of modern fame. In that sense,
we talk about organising Lego, or observe people and ponder why they They’re young kids, and their peer Roberts has just done a very good job
“Legos”, as she sweetly calls the do the things they do and why they group isn’t really interested in me, of reminding me of why she’s still
Danish plastic bricks. It so happens express themselves the way they do, except for my keen ability to braid a relevant: an accessible television star
that the night before we meet, I have the syntax of a sentence. I consider bunch of girls’ hair while you’re wait- now, heading up a bold piece of series
been tidying my children’s bedroom, that’s what my job sort of is. Or to ing for the bell to ring.” television that started life as a podcast.
chucking coloured plastic into see- invent the answers to all those ques- The family have watched last year’s “The mystique of movie stars?”
through Ikea boxes like a glum robot. tions about somebody. Wonder and 1991’s Hook (where she says. “I think it’s long gone. I
In this way (and only this way), Julia “And we’re master thieves, you Mummy was Tinkerbell), but not, I am mean, what are you going to take away
Roberts and I have been living the know. Anywhere I go, I’m watching disappointed to hear, My Best Friend’s from meeting me? Legos, right? Well,
same life. people, saying to myself, ‘How would I Wedding. (“I look forward to Hazel remember, it always has to be by colour.
“When I was first listening to the do that? That tic is so interesting. Or seeing it, because I think she’ll get a It’s the only way.” c
Homecoming podcast, I was literally that uptalking way of speaking that kick out of it.”)
organising thousands of Legos,” she some people have.’ I think that lends “We were so excited to show them Homecoming is available on Amazon
says. “Which I think is the perfect way itself very much to therapy.” The Mexican, because my husband Prime on November 2
tHe BIG GUNs tarGetING tHe sMaLL screeN
Curiouser Of course, all of this has
The smartest Hollywood stars know that and curiouser been true to a greater or
TV’s where it’s at, says Stephen Armstrong Winona Ryder lesser degree for some time.
returned to Kevin Spacey did well out of
Julia Roberts’s turn in Beckinsale signed up for ITV’s form in the the short runs, top writing
Homecoming confirms a The Widow. small-screen and big cheques of House
long-standing truth: film “Actors are pretty much hit Stranger of Cards until controversy
actors in search of a decent the last serious film makers Things hauled him off screen.
role are finding them in to switch to TV,” says Michael Gillian Anderson and Jamie
television. This year alone, Pickard, editor of the TV Dornan were less well
Meryl Streep and Nicole magazine Drama Quarterly. remunerated for The Fall,
Kidman have signed up for “Directors and writers made but still had time for other
series two of Reese the jump years ago. With the projects. So why the rush to
Witherspoon’s HBO drama collapse of the midmarket TV in the past year?
Big Little Lies; Emma Stone movie, everyone from Martin The move used to mark
has joined her Superbad Scorsese to Steven the end of a movie career,
NETFLIX
co-star Jonah Hill for Netflix’s Soderbergh has been but now a show such as
dark comedy Maniac; focusing on telly. The actors Game of Thrones can create
Penelope Cruz has played basically saw all the scripts Following Sarah Jessica command an audience are new film stars, as it did with
Donatella Versace in BBC2’s and roles heading to TV, so Parker’s lead in moving to Sex worth paying properly. Emilia Clarke in Solo, while
The Assassination of Gianni followed the parts, the writers and the City, some actors see The Hollywood Reporter Pickard argues that the
Versace; and Westworld and the directors.” TV as a boost to a slowing estimates that A-list movie stigma of doing TV is over.
has seen Anthony Hopkins, The rise of anthology career. Three years ago, stars can make $15m-$20m Speaking to me at the
Thandie Newton and Ed series such as True Detective Winona Ryder was in limbo for top roles in big-budget launch of A Very English
Harris battle their way onto has helped. Moonlight’s until the Duffer brothers cast films, but less famous actors Scandal, in which he played
the small screen. Mahershala Ali is the latest her as the mother of the such as Gal Gadot in Wonder a dashing Jeremy Thorpe,
That’s not to mention recruit to the franchise, missing boy, Will, in Stranger Woman or Henry Cavill in Hugh Grant agreed. “There
Amy Adams, Colin Farrell, playing a cop from Arkansas Things. The huge success of Man of Steel might only get used to be quite a lot of
Don Cheadle, Kevin Bacon, investigating a macabre the show alerted Hollywood $150,000-$300,000. Stone snobbery — ‘I’m a film star,
Christian Slater, Jessica crime in the Ozarks. agents: for season two, the and Hill are earning $350,000 I’m too big for television’ —
Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Old-school American brothers had to bat off a score per episode for Maniac, Drew but that is eroding fast.
Bassett, Susan Sarandon network TV, in particular, of big-screen stars looking for Barrymore is trousering an Even De Niro is doing
and Billy Bob Thornton. proved unattractive to stars, a reboot. estimated $350,000 per television now.” Then he
Carey Mulligan, who has thanks to the demands of There’s also the money. episode for the comedy Santa paused and sighed. “I do
lamented the lack of shooting 24 episodes a year More than 480 scripted shows Clarita Diet, and Dwayne “The miss celluloid and big
decent roles for women and the restrictive six-year were launched in the US in Rock” Johnson clears a cool screens and the spectacle
in movies, joined David contracts. Now actors can 2017. Netflix and Amazon’s $400,000 per episode for of cinema. I’m a little sad
Hare’s BBC2 political sign up for eight episodes or billion-dollar spending power the HBO dramedy Ballers. It’s that everything just ends up
thriller Collateral; Kate a single season. means movie stars who clearly lucrative to star on TV. being on Netflix.” c
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