In the new exhibition, "Point Blank," at Halcyon Gallery in London, Bob Dylan presents his most intimate series of paintings ...

His identity was a performance ... which in one sense is a parable of artistic ruthlessness—needs a climax. And Bob Dylan, more than most rock stars, is a myth. In all senses of the word.

I’ll admit it straight off: I don’t know how to write about Bob Dylan ... want to see as Dylan devotee, but one that is also unsatisfying in a lot of other ways. “Art is a disagreement ...

Aptly subtitled A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, it’s less a documentary and more a fictionalized retelling of a nonfiction event, a lovingly assembled puzzle about the artifice of art itself.

Someone sidles up to me, Negroni or Coke in hand, and asks, sotto voce, Have you seen the Bob Dylan movie ... I think this ability to try on a new identity — something the movie shows him ...

After a seemingly endless, though occasionally hilarious, pre-release media campaign, “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic ... feel and emotional and artistic arc of Dylan’s life ...