Opening at The Gallatin Galleries on Aug. 25 and running through Oct. 15, the Bob Dylan Center’s exhibition, “How Many Roads: Bob Dylan and his Changing Times, 1961–1964,” traces key moments from Bob Dylan’s early career and follows his rapid rise from an unknown performer to one of the most influential songwriters of his generation—a dynamic period spanning his first three albums.
The exhibit will be anchored by Bob Dylan Center–produced documentary films, which tell the story of the vibrant Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, with never-before-seen interviews with Suze Rotolo, Allen Ginsberg, Dave Van Ronk, John Cohen, Izzy Young, Bruce Langhorne and Mark Spoelstra; the stories behind “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Death of Emmett Till”; an investigation into the events in Mississippi that inspired “Oxford Town” and “Only a Pawn in Their Game”; and the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of Aug. 28, 1963.
The Gallatin Galleries are free and open to the public during operating hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“The exhibit centers on Dylan’s music as a lens through which to view some of the most defining events of the 20th century. The early ’60s were a time of rapid change for America, and Dylan paced alongside, documenting—this exhibit shows you how.”
Mark Davidson
Curator of the exhibit and senior director of archives and exhibitions at American Song Archives
“Greenwich Village is where Bob Dylan became Bob Dylan. There could not be a more perfect venue for the first Bob Dylan Center installation outside of Tulsa.”
Steve Higgins
Managing director of American Song Archives
“One of the many joys of developing our NYU presence in Tulsa—an incredibly rich city for the study of American popular music—has been the opportunity to cultivate a deep relationship with the Bob Dylan Center and the Woody Guthrie Center. Several of our students have already benefited from transformational internships in the archives of both organizations, and now we are thrilled to bring the Dylan Center’s first-ever traveling exhibition to our Washington Square campus.”
Linda G. Mills
NYU President
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