‘The Enigma of my Desire’: How Salvador Dali was shaped by mummy issues
Sometimes the weirdness just covers up the hurt.
Salvador Dalí
Did Salvador Dalí really sell a blade of grass to Yoko Ono for $10,000?
Not everything you read online is true.
Salvador Dalí’s muse Amanda Lear in her first TV commercial, 1967
Already radiating the surreal, gender-fluid mystique Dalí adored.
That time Salvador Dali met Sigmund Freud
Before Salvador Dali met Sigmund Freud during the summer of 1938 in London, the great Surrealist artist had tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to meet…
‘Freud’s cranium is a snail!’ Salvador Dalí was sure Sigmund Freud had a ‘spiral brain’
Sketch of Sigmund Freud by Salvador Dalí (via Freud Museum) If you visit London’s Freud Museum between now and next February, you’ll see an exhibition…
Trip out with Salvador Dalí and Amanda Lear at a 1968 art opening
Olivier Mosset, ‘Untitled,’ 1968 (via Contemporary Art Daily) Fun and Games for Everyone is the second of three films the French director Serge Bard made…
Salvador Dalí’s hilarious lesson in proper English speech
Echo number four (via Discogs) One of the nice people I met at the Revolting Cocks and Meat Beat Manifesto show last weekend kept telling…
At home with Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali once appeared as the mystery guest on a long-time-ago TV show called What’s My Line? in the 1950s. You know the show, the…
Salvador Dalí goes in search of a psychedelic mushroom in ‘Impressions of Upper Mongolia’
Salvador Dali, ‘Impressions of Africa’ (1938) The rambling plot of the movie Salvador Dalí made for West German public TV in 1976, Impressions of Upper…
Salvador Dalí’s body to be exhumed to establish a psychic’s paternity
A Madrid judge has ordered the exhumation of the body of Salvador Dalí to adjudicate a paternity claim on behalf of Maria Pilar Abel Martínez,…