“Does anybody recognise this painting? Any theories as to what it means?” Rolling Stone‘s Andy Greene is looking at a picture of a middle-aged couple on a sleigh. It’s snowy and old-fashioned, like a church basement greeting card priced at 25p. Perhaps it’s a passive-aggressive warning to climate-change deniers of the catastrophic consequences of polluting the world: ice caps will melt, global temperatures will rise, and good ol’ fashioned scenes like this will cease to be. Or maybe it signifies the post-apocalyptic winter that awaits us all, should war ever go nuclear. My “theory”, though, is that this “painting” — the cover image of Bob Dylan’s forthcoming charity album, Christmas in the Heart — just means “Christmas”.
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