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I'm a big Dylan fan. He still shows flashes of brilliance on his more recent work, and he's won some big awards in recent years, Grammies, Oscars, a Pulitzer this week - but his work now is very uneven when compared to his earlier stuff. I like the work he did in the decade after he left the folk movement - very truthful.
Dylan is a media darling - he can do no wrong. Mainly because the liberal establishment - the people with their fingers on the media buttons, grew up with his music. Critics are also very much aware that after his death, his work will come to be recognized in an ever-increasing positive light.
Curators will tell you that an artist only has so much real creativity, only so many original ideas. They spend their creative lives working around those few ideas. Artistic lives are fragile and finite - ten years is long run even for highly talented people. Get caught up in the trappings of fame: women, drugs, becoming unreasonably eccentric, and they often short circuit it all together.
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