As revealed in the latest issue of Uncut, the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa is staging a major retrospective exploring Bob Dylan’s wild 1966 – and a new trailer for the exhibition has now been released.
As revealed in the latest issue of Uncut, the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa is staging a major retrospective exploring Bob Dylan’s wild 1966 – and a new trailer for the exhibition has now been released.
“1966 is a remarkable period,” the show’s curator, Mark Davidson, tells Uncut. “It’s on a different level. It’s basically Dylan creating some of the most iconic music he’s made – while taking on the world.”
The exhibition opens on July 18 and the Center promise an immersive, multi-media experience, showcasing artefacts including Dylan’s own working manuscripts, rare audio, vintage promotional material and ephemera, unseen photographs and recently restored film footage.
These examine Dylan’s blazing creative journey across 1966 in unprecedentedly rich detail and depth. From writing and recording Blonde On Blonde and touring with the Hawks, to jousting with the world’s media. “It’s Dylan as spectacle, in a very combative way,” Davidson says: “‘This is me – deal with it.’”
Along the way, visitors will experience Dylan’s emergence as a cool and at times combative rock star, rubbing shoulders with the likes of The Beatles, The Stones, Marlon Brando, Françoise Hardy and Andy Warhol, who captured Dylan in two iconic yet seldom-seen screen tests. Visitors will be able to make their own screen tests by way of an interactive Screen Test Machine, on loan from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Highlights include:
- Original Blonde on Blonde lyrics including “I Want You” and “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)”
- Original typescript drafts from “Tarantula” and associated writings from Dylan’s mid-’60s
- Never-before-seen photos and documents and footage from the 1966 World Tour
- Brand-new hour-long film program featuring never-before-seen footage and newly conducted interviews with key figures from the era including Jerry Schatzberg, Richard Alderson and Harvey Brooks
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