{"id":3204,"date":"2011-10-28T01:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/more-acoustic-than-electric\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T08:48:08","slug":"more-acoustic-than-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/28\/more-acoustic-than-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"More Acoustic Than Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/richard-prince-on-bob-dylans-paintings-they\u2019re-more-acoustic-than-electric_b17705\" target=\"_blank\">from MediaBistro&#8217;s UNBEIGE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Richard Prince On Bob Dylan\u2019s Paintings: \u2018They\u2019re More Acoustic Than Electric\u2019<\/h1>\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"margin-top: -4px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #999999; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-bottom: 15px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">By Stephanie Murg on October 28, 2011 8:55 AM<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/files\/2011\/10\/Joshua-White-226x300.jpg\" title=\"(Joshua White)\" width=\"181\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17706\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; float: right; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\" \/> Whether or not you had the opportunity to see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2011-09-20_bob-dylan\/#\" target=\"_blank\">the recent exhibition of paintings by\u00a0<strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at Gagosian Gallery in New York and regardless of your opinions of the famed singer-songwriter\u2019s way with acrylics or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/26\/questions-raised-about-dylan-show-at-gagosian\/\" target=\"_blank\">choice of source material<\/a>, treat yourself to <strong>Richard Prince\u2019<\/strong>s wonderfully Joycean take on the matter. The artist penned an essay for the exhibition catalogue, and it has been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2011\/oct\/05\/richard-prince-bob-dylan-fugitive-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">published on the\u00a0<em>New York Review of Books\u2019<\/em>\u00a0blog<\/a>\u00a0for all to enjoy. Prince proves that he can wield a simile as deftly as he does an appropriated cowboy: He compares one of Dylan\u2019s canvases to\u00a0<strong>C\u00e9zanne<\/strong>\u2019s Bathers, works he admires in part because \u201cThe paint is nice and thin, like it\u2019s been applied directly on the wall of a Roman emperor\u2019s home,\u201d and likens getting to Dylan\u2019s Los Angeles studio to \u201cthat scene in\u00a0<em>Goodfellas<\/em>\u00a0when\u00a0<strong>Ray Liotta<\/strong>\u00a0parks his car outside a nightclub\u2026 I think it\u2019s Copacabana\u2026and goes in a side entrance, down a hall past a lazy-ass watchman, into the kitchen, through another hallway, and out into the main room and ends up right next to the ma\u00eetre d\u2019, who then ignores the people in line waiting to get in and hugs and kisses Ray and his girlfriend and shows them right down in front of the stage, where a small table, two chairs, and a plug-in lamp suddenly, miraculously, appear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just the opening paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/richard-prince-on-bob-dylans-paintings-they\u2019re-more-acoustic-than-electric_b17705\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at MediaBistro.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MediaBistro&#8217;s UNBEIGE Richard Prince On Bob Dylan\u2019s Paintings: \u2018They\u2019re More Acoustic Than Electric\u2019 By Stephanie Murg on October 28, 2011 8:55 AM Whether or not you had the opportunity to see\u00a0the recent exhibition of paintings by\u00a0Bob Dylan\u00a0at Gagosian Gallery in New York and regardless of your opinions of the famed singer-songwriter\u2019s way with acrylics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}