25 Fun Things to Seek Out at the Bob Dylan Center: His Times, They Are A-Curated
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe Bob Dylan Center, which had its ribbon-cutting in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s arts district Tuesday morning, is very much a choose-your-own adventure place.
The museum’s director, Steven Jenkins, says they tried to make its exhibition spaces equally interesting to “skimmers, swimmers and divers.” Another way to look at it would be that it’s for both big-picture-takers and squinters.
Some will come in and be drawn to articles of clothing, like the leather jacket he wore at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 when he went electric.
Others will literally get down on their knees and narrow their eyes to take in the sometimes minuscule cursive of his lyric scraps, and the handwriting that was a part of his constant revisions even after he eventually went Selectric.
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