Dylan News Event Of The Year #4: Retrospectrum (The Art of Bob Dylan)

A 2022 Year End Countdown From Seven Days in Dylan

On December 31, 2022 we’ll publish a special Year-End Edition of our ‘Seven Days’ newsletter, highlighting the most interesting Bob Dylan news, blog posts, new releases, podcasts, videos, and more.

Building toward that, M-F this week this series will count down the top five news events in the World of Bob Dylan (in our humble and entirely non-scientific opinion).

Our criteria included the amount of press coverage and Dylan community chatter they inspired, their long term impact, and the amount of ‘Nobody But Bob Dylan’ could pull this off that they contain. (The comments on this post are open for discussion and debate.)

#4: Retrospectrum - The Art of Bob Dylan

When Writings and Drawings came out in 1973, Dylan's artwork was often not much more than a few squiggles. Sure the covers of Self Portrait and Music from Big Pink and a few others date from this time, but Dylan's art was essentially just a hobby for decades.

About 15 years ago that changed when The Drawn Blank Series appeared at …