In the new exhibition, "Point Blank," at Halcyon Gallery in London, Bob Dylan presents his most intimate series of paintings ...

His identity was a performance ... which in one sense is a parable of artistic ruthlessness—needs a climax. And Bob Dylan, more than most rock stars, is a myth. In all senses of the word.

Aptly subtitled A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, it’s less a documentary and more a fictionalized retelling of a nonfiction event, a lovingly assembled puzzle about the artifice of art itself.

After a seemingly endless, though occasionally hilarious, pre-release media campaign, “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic ... feel and emotional and artistic arc of Dylan’s life ...

Someone sidles up to me, Negroni or Coke in hand, and asks, sotto voce, Have you seen the Bob Dylan movie ... I think this ability to try on a new identity — something the movie shows him ...