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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

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            Dylan in pictures ... but
            which song is which?                              B                                                                                                                                                      F
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            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.
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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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26 October 2018
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26 October 2018
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Vanity Fair
5 November 2018

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     VANITY FAIR PROMOTION

                                            QUICK ON THE DRAW                                                                                                                     THE LINES, THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’

               Illustrations of “Ballad of a Thin Man” (left), and “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”.                                                       Dylan’s illustrations for “All I Really Want to Do” (left), and “All Along the Watchtower”.
               Below: Paul Green, president of Halcyon Gallery, photographed at the exhibition                                                                         Below: the handwritten lyrics to “All I Really Want to Do”

             The Art of                                                                                                     look as though they were done from life. Just as he conjures
                                                                                                                            vignettes in a few choice words, so too do the drawings, which
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Dylan’s work, but the accompanying lyric sheets mean that
                                                                                                                                                                                                      newcomers to his musical oeuvre shouldn’t be intimidated.

            Songwriting
                                                                                                                            focus largely on American life and, in particular, the America            Green points out that this is the first time Dylan has openly given
                                                                                                                            of the past. One piece is a close-up study of a harmonica, while          a type of visual interpretation for his lyrics, or indeed allowed his
                                                                                                                            another depicts a dilapidated clapboard farm                                                  artwork to be associated with his songwriting.
                                                                                                                            with requisite windpumps and grain silo.                                                      Many of the changes he has made to the songs
                                                                                                                            These images almost look like preliminary                                                     and their illustrations are subtle, but some
                                                                                                                            sketches for a comic book set in the Dust Bowl.                                               are more radical. “Hurricane”, for example,
                                                                                                                            “He is on the Never Ending Tour,” observes                                                    casts the eponymous boxer from the song as
                                                                                                                            Green, “and the landscapes reflect that. He                                                   a white man.
  As a radical new exhibition of Bob Dylan drawings opens in London,                                                        is generally saying, ‘I’m really looking at the
                                                                                                                            America that was. I have less interest in the                                                Halcyon Gallery maintains galleries in
  THOMAS BARRIE considers the musician’s position in the art canon                                                          America that is—I want to see the bridges, the                                               London and Shanghai, and China will also
                                                                                                                            landscape, and the motels for what they are.’”                                               play host to the exhibition. When Dylan wrote
                                                                                                                               Some of the drawings are easy to read. To                                                 “The Times They Are A-changing” in 1964,

                                                 “I           t’s as though everything is aligned now, at this particular
                                                              time in his life, and he’s seen as almost one of the great
                                                              post-war contemporary artists, to go alongside Rothko,
                                                                                                                            accompany “Masters of War” is a large, head-
                                                                                                                            on drawing of a tank; “Leopard-Skin Pillbox
                                                                                                                            Hat” is literally a picture of a woman wearing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         the country was at the height of the Cultural
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Revolution. Life expectancy was below
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         50, and less than half the population was
                                                 Warhol, Ruscha—that’s who he is.”                                          one. Yet some are more oblique. “Tangled Up                                                  literate. Now, Green says, people in China are
                                                   Paul Green, president of Halcyon Gallery, is talking Bob Dylan.          in Blue” depicts a car in an overgrown field,                                                clamouring for the right to experience major
                                                 Since Drawn Blank, the 2008 exhibition of Dylan’s work that drew           presumably in reference to four passing lines                                                cultural events for themselves, and demand
                                                 thousands of visitors to the Bruton Street gallery, Halcyon has            in the song: We drove that car as far as we could / Abandoned it          for Dylan’s art and music has skyrocketed—aided by the fact
                                                 established a fruitful relationship with the musician. Now, a new          out west / Split up on a dark sad night / Both agreeing it was best.      he played in Beijing and Shanghai in 2011. Though there will
                                                 show entitled Mondo Scripto sees Dylan reinterpret 60 of his               Another picture shows the “ancient empty street” alluded to in            be translations of the lyrics when the exhibition goes abroad,
                                                 songs, writing out by hand and often changing their lyrics, and            “Mr Tambourine Man”. The drawings reward familiarity with                 the Chinese dynamic offers a glimpse of something almost
                                                 accompanying them with pencil sketches.                                                                                                              paradoxical: a particular vision of America that is accessible to
                                                   If it initially seems like an unusual move for a figure best known                                                                                 anyone. Perhaps, in translating his work from music into visual
                                                 for his music, then consider the fact that Dylan was awarded the                                                                                     art, Dylan has revealed something about why he continues
                                                 Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, plus the paintings and sculp-                                                                                    to wield influence so huge as to be almost inconceivable for
                                                 ture he has created since the 1970s, as proof that he is a polymath.
                                                 “Dylan has illustrated several of his albums, from as early as 1968
                                                                                                                            “Dylan is one of the great                                                a living artist.
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Green agrees. “We will be explaining to populations why Dylan
                                                 with Music from Big Pink,” says Green. “He’s always done drawing
                                                 and sketching, and was sculpting [in the 1970s] as well.”
                                                                                                                            post-war contemporary                                                     is one of the most important iconic and cultural figures for the
                                                                                                                                                                                                      whole world; why he has spoken to generations, and why Allen
                                                                                                                            artists, to go alongside                                                  Ginsberg is quoted, in Scorsese’s Dylan documentary No Direction
                                                 All the works in the exhibition are figurative, in the pure sense                                                                                    Home, as saying that it was suddenly as though the torch had been
                                                 that they depict absolute, recognisable things, and a number               Rothko, Warhol, Ruscha”                                                   passed to a different generation.”
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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

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                                                                                                                                        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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