The one Bob Dylan show for which you will not need to queue for tickets is an extraordinary display of 97 new paintings opening next weekend in London – as intimate, resonant and reflective as anything the Nobel Prize-winning music star has created.
Almost everything Bob Dylan sings enraptures, and has done for almost seven decades, but what he paints is a revelatory turn of the key into his soul. He has always drawn, even during his childhood in Duluth, Minnesota, where the clank and clang of cargo ships being welded and hammered in the Midwest led to his obsession with iron and steel structures and the romance and nostalgia for an America viewed through that railroad filter.
