Salvador Dalí

We Found Our Chinese Haunt: The Dali Gay Bar

DISGRASIAN™ (Free subscription) | yesterday

In Dali, we'd be happy to clink glasses at the new government-funded gay bar.

Dali government closes 'gay bar' on World AIDS Day | Danwei

virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

Update: Malcolm Moore has written on his blog that the "gay bar" has actually been closed by the authorities. In the backpacker town of Dali, China’s first state-sanctioned gay bar would serve as a “common room for partner education” according ...

Yunnan government blows ¥120,000 to open "gay bar" in Dali... ...

virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

As we told you two times already, today is World Aids Day, and Yunnan officials have blown our minds with their uncanny ability to think outside the box in a move that promises to redefine "socialism with Chinese characteristics" — they've spent...

Yunnan government blows ¥120,000 to open "gay bar" in Dali... minus the drinks!

Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | yesterday

As we told you two times already, today is World Aids Day, and Yunnan officials have blown our minds with their uncanny ability to think outside the box in a move that promises to redefine "socialism with Chinese characteristics" — they've spent ¥120,000 in public funds to open up a "gay bar" in picturesque and touristy Dali, one of China's top ten cities most afflicted...

Dali government opens (or closes') 'gay bar' on World AIDS Day

Danwei (Free subscription) | yesterday

Chris at Gokunming.com on the "gay bar" that has just opened in Kunming. Update : Malcolm Moore has written on his blog that it has actually been closed by the authorities. The 120,000 yuan (US$17,576) bar, located in Dali's ancient city, is managed by the NGO The Good Friend Center, according to a Global Times story. Reaction across the Chinese Internet has ranged from praise to condemnation,...

Dali government closes 'gay bar' on World AIDS Day

Danwei (Free subscription) | yesterday

Update : Malcolm Moore has written on his blog that the "gay bar" has actually been closed by the authorities. In the backpacker town of Dali, China’s first state-sanctioned gay bar would serve as a “common room for partner education” according to the paper. Around 120,000 yuan (£10,600) of public money was going to subsidise its opening costs. Yunnan was chosen because...

"Visions in Merlot": Twirling Dali's Mustache exhibit

Daily Painters International Art Gallery (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

"Visions in Merlot" is an oil painting I just finished for the Loveland Museum's Salvador Dali themed exhibit "Twirling Dali's Mustache." The show which consists of local invited artists are creating art influenced by Dali. The show which opens December 11, 2009 will run until February 14, 2010 and coincides with three other exhibits: Dali Illustrates Dante's Divine Comedy, Dali's...

Dali’s Moustache, A Sculpture by Carole Eisner

Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

photo by Scott Beale “Dali’s Moustache”, a sculpture by Carole Eisner located across from the new Upper West Side Apple Store at 67th Street and Broadway in New York City. It is part of her series of nine monumental recycled steel sculptures along the Broadway Corridor from West 64th to West 166th Streets. This is a blog [...] This is a blog post from Laughing Squid , subscribe via...

Brain scans could one day be used to tell a Dali from a Picasso

Sify (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

Can brain scans help classify art? Well, researchers from ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan seem to have found the answer.

• Brain scanner can tell a Dali from a Picasso - New Scientist
• Brain scanner can tell a Dali from a Picasso - monochrom

Dalí on What's My Line

The 'Spill (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

Gerry Dawes's Persistence of Memory Awards (with tip of my sombrero to Salvador Dalí, whose genius persists in memory).

Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

Salvador Dali Sculptures Join The Jet Set This Winter

DeRosaWorld (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Surrealist artist Salvador Dali (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) is to be honored this winter when 14 of his sculptures will be displayed in and around Courchevel, a French mountain ski resort... the exhibition aims to celebrate the...

Dali's Art Displayed on Alps Top

webcastr (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Giant sculptures by the late surrealist Salvador Dali are installed on mountain tops in France's Courchevel ski resort.

Salvador Dali's Alice in Wonderland

Where Are You... (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

Dali ’s incredible illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” (published in 1865) have caused it to become one of the rarest and most sought-after Dali suites. With the original gouaches published by Maecenas Press-Random House, New York in 1969, the Suite now contains 12 heliogravures - one for each chapter of the book - and comes with 1 original signed etching...

Dalí Good

Style.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

With Surrealism the theme at this year's Apollo Circle Benefit, the mood inside the Met last night was a dreamy mix of glamour and whimsy. Bartenders serving Champagne against a backdrop of avant-garde films by Luis Buñuel and Maya Deren had painted-on Dalí moustaches, and maybe it wasn't too much of a stretch to see the light reflecting off moats and the Temple of Dendur's Egyptian...

Dalí: Alive in Spain’s museums

liz level | 20/10/2009

Salvador Dalí is a master of surrealism and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Why not explore the places where he lived and painted, and discover the most interesting museums that exhibit his work? These are unusual spaces that can only be found in Dalí’s native Spain, where the memory of the painter is very much alive.