The Bob Dylan Center is once again partnering with multitalented singer-songwriter-impresario Wesley Stace to present the second biannual Cabinet of Wonders extravaganza right here in Tulsa. Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders —hailed by The New Yorker as “the finest night of entertainment this city has to offer”—is a one-of-a-kind variety show that features Stace and […]
“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.” — Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” Join Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins for an online discussion with music and media journalist Barry Mazor about his definitive biography of one of the most influential acts in pop music history, the Everly Brothers. From 1957 through 1962—between […]
Following last year’s foray into favorite film soundtracks, “Ten Songs (Plus One or Two)” — the Bob Dylan Center’s bimonthly members-only series of listening sessions hosted by center director Steven Jenkins — returns to the movies with a playlist celebrating the pleasures of double features, the allure of masterful directors and larger-than-life stars, and the […]
“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.” — Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” Join Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins for an online discussion with author and professor Margena Christian about her revelatory biography of Sylvia Moy, the previously overlooked creative force behind a slew of Motown Records classics. “It’s No Wonder: The […]
Members are invited to celebrate the opening of “Thin Wild Mercury: Dylan 1966” with a spirited reception, advanced viewing and remarks from the curator at the Bob Dylan Center from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 17. Exhibition curator Mark Davidson will provide an overview of the multimedia exhibition that transcends Dylan’s controversial “going […]
“’Take care of all your memories’ / Said my friend, Mick / ‘For you cannot relive them.’” So sings Dylan with aw-shucks bemusement in “Open the Door, Homer,” a honky-tonk hoedown from “The Basement Tapes.” Yet it is the peculiar magic of songs such as this one that bring the past so vividly into the […]
“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.” — Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” Join Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins for an online discussion with poet and scholar Robert Polito about his bold take on Dylan’s output since the early 1990s. A prevailing narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of the 1960s counterculture, […]
The Bob Dylan Center’s bimonthly members-only series of listening sessions strikes a dramatic crescendo in this final installment of 2026, with featured artists such as Blur, Spiritualized, Elliott Smith and The Waterboys reaching impossible heights in their quests for grand statements of universal harmony and emotional rescue. Center director Steven Jenkins will host this rousing […]
The center will be closing at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12.
