A judge in Madrid has ruled that the artist’s body must be exhumed in order to carry out a paternity test.
Salvador Dali
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The Persistence of Hunger: Dal۪̉s Dissatisfying Cookbook
Salvador DalÃ’s 1973 cookbook, now reprinted by Taschen, doesn’t seem to know what Surrealist cuisine is.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Norwegian youths destroyed a stone-age engraving of a skier, Mary Boone sued an art adviser over allegedly ill-gotten KAWS works, and a Salvador Dalà sculpture was vandalized in Quebec City.
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The Curious Fates of Famous Artists’ Pets
There’s a whole history of woe for the pets of famous artists, especially when the creative types decided no ordinary cat or dog would do.
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DalÃ’s Doppelgängers and Ghosts
Salvador Dalà was named after his brother, who died in infancy, before Dalà was born.
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At Spring Masters, a Glimpse of Precious Artworks Before They Change Hands
The Spring Masters fair preview welcomed its visitors with vases full of fresh magnolias, live classical music, and platters of champagne.
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A 1944 Dalà Backdrop Gets Its Own Surreal Circus
The archives of the Metropolitan Opera can seem like some kind of pharaonic tomb, packed as they are with theatrical treasures.
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Math and Madness in a 1960s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ Illustrated by DalÃ
In 1969, the Maecenas Press imprint of Random House published 2,700 copies of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, each chapter accompanied by one of 12 heliogravures by Salvador DalÃ.
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Remembering Brian Sewell: The Master of the Operatic Put-Down Who Masturbated for DalÃ
There’s little doubt that Brian Sewell (1931–2015) — who passed away on Saturday — was Britain’s best-known art critic.
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Slicing Up Eyeballs in a Surrealist Game
The startling 1929 surrealist silent film Un Chien Andalou made by Luis Buñuel in collaboration with Salvador Dalà is now a deeply unsettling video game.
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Artists Redraw Their Own Books
Some unique artist books are currently on view at Christie’s in New York.
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Dali, Warhol, and Pollock: This Is Your Life
A new graphic biography series launched last month with books that follow the lives of Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Salvador Dalà in text and illustration.