Salvador Dalí

Dali, Picasso & more masters at the DIA

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008

Dali's Needle

Seattle Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Photo & Text Copyright 2008 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing. Surrealistic, twisted effect in this night shot of the Needle's reflection in the "Purple Haze" wall of the EMP. It reminds me of a mushroom, or perhaps a something once described to me by my surfer friend, Jim, who lived in a tree house on Kauai and experienced strange psilocybin mushroom...

Salvador Dalí ~ 'Metamorphosis of Narcissus' ~ shown at The Dali Foundation

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

Figueres, Spain- The Dalí Foundation presented today the temporary loan of the oil painting 'Metamorphosis of Narcissus', from the Tate Modern collection, that will be seen in the "Dalí d'Or" Room, at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres for three months. This painting is from Dalí's Paranoiac-critical period. According to Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool. Unable...

• Dali Foundation Presents Metamorphosis of Narcissus on Loan From Tate Gallery - Artdaily

One-of-a-Kind Salvador Dali Dedicatory Drawings Collection

Artdaily (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

WILLIAMSVILLE, NY.- On August 17, Artdaily.org broke the story about the discovery of a hidden trove of 15 dedicatory drawings and sketches by Spanish Surrealist master Salvador Dali, which had been sequestered for decades in a bank vault in downtown Buffalo, New York. They were gifts by Dali to the late Dr. Edmund Klein, who found a cure for a certain form of skin cancer and secretly

Florida museum recreates Salvador Dali's world

atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008

He played with perception and reality as if they were his favourite toys. Almost 20 years after his death, the debate continues as to whether Salvador Dali was a genius and visionary, a manipulative fraud or simply insane.

Salvador Dali

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008

Wednesday we went to an art exhibition Salvador Dal A Surrealist in Istanbul. We went with a few other people teaching in Istanbul and had a blast. It was a beautiful day to travel and we had a great time. The exibit was held at the Sakip Sabanci Museum in the Emirgan neighborhood .

Max Payne is to Art as Salvador Dali is to Games?

Evil Avatar Forums - News Items (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008

Matthew Wasteland (http://www.magicalwasteland.com/) has written a opinion piece for GameSetWatch (http://www.gamesetwatch.com) detailing how interactivity is one of the biggest things holding back games from being considered traditional art. ---Quote--- "Most people in the video game industry,...

Dali Museum Fashion Benefit In St. Pete Was Just So Surreal

Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008

Surrealism and fashion came together in the spirit of Salvador Dali today at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club to raise funds for a new $35 million building that will be double the size of the current Dali Museum.

Dali in New York

DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008

Rent It One would assume Salvador Dali would be prime fodder for a compelling documentary subject. Eccentric. Considered brilliant. A showman. But of course being an eccentric and a showman also makes for a double-edged sword. You aren't going to follow around Dali and get any kind of insightful, probing reveal. You are only going to get what Dali wants to show you and his daily existence, much less...

Well, goodbye, Dali

John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008

I love finding stuff on Flickr. This pic, taken in Philadelphia, came from this Flickr page.

"Salvador Dalí ~ A Surrealist in Istanbul" opens at The Sakip Sabanci Museum

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - The Sabanci University Sakip Sabanci Museum (SSM) , with the sponsorship of Akbank and in cooperation with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, opened one of the 20th century’s most important artists and representative of the Surrealist movement Salvador Dalí. The signature ceremony for the sponsorship for the exhibition “Salvador Dalí: A Surrealist in Istanbul” took place on 24 March...

• "Salvador Dalí: A Surrealist in Istanbul" Opens Today at The Sakip Sabanci Museum - Artdaily

GALLERY IS SUED OVER 'DALI' HEIST

New York Post (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

A Midtown gallery from which dozens of photographs of Salvador Dali were stolen didn't do enough to safeguard the precious works, their owners charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday. The heirs of famed photographer Philippe Halsman, who frequently...

Saturday Evening Open Thread: Dali's View Of Women

TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008

We're off to a dinner event at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersberg, FL tonight. The featured exhibit is Dali's View of Women . More than 100 of Dalí’s works from the permanent collection are on display until September 21. A range of diverse approaches are found in Dalí’s view of women, most evident in his many depictions of his wife, Gala. He painted her as the Sphinx, Gradiva and Leda, infusing...

Dalí's twisted vision at the MOMA

The Click Heard Round the World (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008

Miss V recommended I check out the "Salvador Dali: Painting and Film" exhibit at the MOMA before it closes, so I headed there today. Fortunately / unfortunately it was Target First Friday there, which means that it was free (yah!)...

Dali Experts and Police Find Park West At Sea Dali Prints To Be Fake - Full Length Video Released

Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

PHOENIX, AZ.- Global Fine Art Registry, LLC, announces the release of a 48-minute documentary video about Salvador Dalí fakes. The video includes interviews with a leading German art crime detective, Ernst Schöller, world renowned experts on Dalí original works, Robert and Nicolas Descharnes, and international Dali graphics authority, Frank Hunter, Director of the Salvador Dali