WHAT?  Bob Dylan - Busy Being Born 

WHERE?  Halcyon Gallery, 29 New Bond Street, London W1S 2RL

WHEN? Now until 4th March.  Free to view 

WHY GO?  To hero worship a legend. The boy born Robert Zimmerman came a long way from Minnesota when he hit New York aged 19 renamed as Bob Dylan and the rest is history. 

If you love the thrilling new biopic, A Complete Unknown in cinemas now, then you’ll love this timely probe into Dylan’s parallel love, his art and this little exhibition focuses on his relationship with New York. 

Considering he’s a Nobel prize-winning poet, singer and songwriter, it says something about his mercurial character that he keeps on creating at the age of 83 and his paintings are very personal.

He may not be Picasso, but there’s something charmingly naive about the famous landmarks he paints, like Brooklyn Bridge, that figure so prominently in his iconic songs.  

Original lyrics and sketches are included in this eclectic exhibition that swerves from newspaper cuttings to paintings and is a retrospective of artworks the gallery has shown since they first represented Dylan in 2008.

It’s already attracting groupies who have become obsessed with the whole Dylan revival.

If you haven’t seen the film, tap into the teaser on the Halcyon Gallery website to see Timothee Chalamet as the great man himself.

Ever aloof, apparently the real Dylan skipped the film’s première: he must have been too busy painting!

IN THE KNOW There’s more to hero worship: across the road in Halcyon’s second gallery, check out David Hockney’s, Living in Colour, a bold exhibition of his graphics including freestyle drawings of his famous confidante Celia Birtwell.

Until 23rd February, it’s free and all too tempting to splash the payday cash on a colourful Hockney poster.