The first sounds you hear when you drop the needle — or click the digital file — on Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks are guitars ringing and chiming, almost like bells. They serve as a kind of preface or overture or opening statement or call to prayer for what the listener is about to hear: 56 minutes of a journey through dark heat into the heart and soul of an artist at the depths of sadness driving him to the heights of creative achievement.

The filmmaker was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" and the TV series "Twin Peaks."

The beloved director was known for his surreal works like "Blue Velvet," "Mulholland Drive," and "Twin Peaks."

David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday, was my motion picture lodestar. When his 1977 movie Eraserhead played at an obscure film festival, now long gone, in Woolwich, London, it was like nirvana for a kid raised on The Sound of Music,

Up for a best actress Oscar is Erivo, who secured her second acting Oscar nod for musical The Wizard Of Oz prequel Wicked, along with new nominations for Mikey Madison for playing a stripper who falls for a Russian oligarch’s son in Anora, and Hollywood actress Demi Moore for body horror The Substance.

The 19-year-old musician was drawn to New York by the promise of counterculture in a part of the city that's a-changin'

On his third album, “The Big Dream,” Lynch teamed up with Swedish singer Lykke Li for the dreamy “I'm Waiting Here,” a breathy, depressed doo-wop anti-hit that sounds like it was recorded in the spot where a sunset horizon hits an open road.

Wayne Coyne was born, "The Twist" became the only single in the history of the charts to make it to No. 1 on two separate occasions; Bob Dylan started recording 'Bringing It All Back Home'; and "Folsom Prison Blues" was recorded live at Folsom Prison,

Take a look at how Timothee Chalamet wowed everyone with his entrance on the red carpet at the UK premiere of A Complete Unknown.

The decades-long valorization and near-deification of the late filmmaker David Lynch is a sign of declining cultural standards and decaying societal values. Long ago, the public flocked to films by directors whose artistic visions,

The former Celine designer’s coming-out party is a lesson in fashion’s lame-duck season. What’s the most mysterious designer in the world to do after he mysteriously leaves his high-profile job? Go out on the town, of course.

The top lot in this Bob Dylan sale was #19, three progressive drafts of Mr. Tambourine Man working lyrics. They were estimated at USD 400,000 to $600,000 and sold for $508,000. This grouping included two sheets of yellow paper and three pages of typescript lyrics,