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Bob Dylan: Face Value Opens at London’s National Portrait Gallery

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Face Value, a new exhibition of the singer's portraits, opens at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Chloe Ashby reports.

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Bob Dylan, Getty

“Oh my god, this is Bob Dylan’s art!”

That was the soundtrack at London’s National Portrait Gallery as tourists stumbled upon Bob Dylan: Face Value, an exhibition of 12 pastel portraits painted by the great singer.

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Hardcore Dylanologists were nowhere to be seen on the morning of the show’s opening—and for the...

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