The controversy over Bob Dylan's Asia Series show rumbles on. Dylan site Expecting Rain has the links.
Scott Warmuth offers this:
I suggest that The Asia Series could be a subversive act created with thoughts of Duchamp. If the intent was to cause controversy then the installation at the Gagosian Gallery is wildly successful.
Which seems altogether too generous, but very much in keeping with the tradition of Dylan obsessives to find the most intellectually and artistically profound significance in all aspects of the master's oeuvre. The whole affair is surely more tawdry than subversive.
Frank Beacham gets it more right, I think. The problem isn't so much that Dylan copied other works: it's that he didn't improve on them.
Mick Hartley 
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