MIAMI — Bob Dylan has been telling stories through songs for 60 years. But recently America’s master lyricist has also captured moments in a new series of paintings that, just
Bob Dylan's first U.S. art exhibition, titled Retrospectrum, is now running at Florida International University. The university's Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum features more than 120 of Dylan's paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning six decades. The exhibit includes 180 acrylics, watercolors, drawings and ironwork sculptures along with interactive exhibits for fans. The show will be on view through April 17th, 2022. Billboard reported, "Retrospectrum includes some of Dylan's works from the 1960's, starting with pencil sketches he made of his songs such as 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Like A Rolling Stone.' His pieces, loaned from private collections around the world, also include abstract sketches from the 1970's, and covers six large rooms. But the vast majority was created in the past 15 years." Rolling Stone reported: "During the exhibit's opening week, the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, FI
• Country star Miranda Lambert says she doesn't really like Christmas music. The only thing that got her in the spirit to do a holiday record was singing with her two best gal pals from the Pistol Annies, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. "If there was ever a time I would think a Christmas album was fun, it would be with these two girls, for sure," said the Texas-born singer. "Hell of Holiday" is an album for holiday survivors, folks like Lambert who are a little more sarcastic than sentimental, but still can find the meaning of the season through all the tinsel. The three bring both humor and harmony as they celebrate with relatives, get caught up in the hustle and sing Jesus a "Happy Birthday" song. "We are all sad-song lovers, so there's some moments on this record that have either some some dark humor or some sad-song undertones," said Lambert. They wrote the 10 original songs at Lambert's farm around the holidays last yea
Bob Dylan has been telling stories through songs for 60 years. But recently America’s master lyricist has also captured moments in a new series of paintings that, just like his songs, are intimate and a bit of a mystery. The most comprehensive exhibition of the Nobel laureate’s visual art to be held in the U.S.…