Da-Da-Dali: Salvador Dali In Pictures By Werner Bokelberg (German Edition)
Charlie's Design Diary (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Bukowskis Auction House has an international modern & contemporary art and design auction coming up next Sunday, November 08, 2009 at their Helsinki location. The online catalog is available online (here) for viewing. " Bukowskis organises two major international auctions every year. Objects for sale include Finnish and foreign art, sculpture, furniture, silver, jewellery, glass, porcelain...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Tim Parks Isia Leviant: Enigma, 1981 What happens in the brain when we look at a painting, listen to music, read a book? This was the subject of Neuroesthetics: When Art and the Brain Collide , a workshop conference at IULM University Milan bringing together a mix of neurobiologists and art historians. The atmosphere was tense and expectant, the art folk anxious that they wouldn’t understand...
The Toynbee convector (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
What’s My Line, CBS, 1950-67. Frank Lloyd Wright. June 3 1956. Surreal to have this nineteenth-century gentleman, born in 1867, here. He died in 1959. Salvador Dalí. January 27 1957. Eleanor Roosevelt. October 18 1953. She comes to life at the end. William Schuman, composer and first president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. September 30 1962. Schuman, unlike Copland, [...]...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The lobby of the Sanderson Hotel, just off Oxford Street, is a vibrant relief from London's grey October sky. Sheer curtains shroud lamps illuminating a hotch-potch of furniture. There's a baroque chaise longue, a postmodern, winding bench, and a copy of Salvador Dali's red lips sofa greeting you as you walk through the door. It's not so much checking in, as being on the receiving end of a sloppy...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Welcome to the "hottest" online art gallery in the world. The collection, kept in a glass and concrete building beside the Rhône in Lyons has more exhibits than the Louvre. It has been forbidden to the public for years, but has now has thrown itself open online to anyone who passes a simple security check. Rembrandt, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Picasso, Cézanne and Manet are all here....
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
With apologies to James St James , but Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali both were pioneers of lobster fashion (t/y Grandpa Larkin) Pics from ' Shocking : The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Love the shoe hat and the Hannibal Lecter gloves - and I'm sure James has worn both.
Le Monde diplomatique (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
It's not quite a Mediterranean setting. St Petersburg on Tampa Bay, Florida, has a whiff of the tropics, with balmy Gulf of Mexico tides home to the manatee and the pelican. But the Salvador Dali Museum, built to house the magnificent collection of the American industrialist A Reynolds Morse and his wife Eleanor Reese, is at least as important to the Dali legacy as the renowned Theatre-Museum in his...
Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
This is not a dream about Joe and being sorry he died of AIDS. There's a sort of squalor just in having veins, if they begin to bleed or you need drugs to fill them. You can react in a saintly manner to such suffering or not. Saints do not take their blood pressure obsessively or paint images of their own suffering. They sit like Salvador Dali in a kitchen, sipping rejuvenation from the gross colors...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
... are bad: Roman Polanski, George Orwell, and Salvador Dali . It will be seen that what the defenders of Dali are claiming is a kind of benefit of clergy. The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word “Art,” and everything is O.K.: kicking little girls in the head is O.K.
PAWaterCooler.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
In his essay on Salvador Dali [a monstrous and disgusting figure, so much so that he would have enjoyed being considered monstrous and disgusting] George Orwell makes the point that having artistic talent does not excuse a person from the standards of decent human conduct by writing: If Shakespeare returned to the earth to-morrow, and if [...]
Created Things (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Writing about the reaction to Roman Polanksi's extradition, Jim Lindgren quotes George Orwell's discussion of Salvador Dali's autobiography. I hope I'll have time to read Orwell's essay tonight. James Thurber wrote a wonderful autobiographical review of Dali's autobiography . It had the memorable line: Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali...
Sharanya Manivannan (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
When Salvador Dali appeared on the 1950’s American TV game show “What’s My Line”, in which a blindfolded panel deduced the professions of mystery guests based on a series of yes/no questions, he was correctly identified by a suggestion one panelist made to another: “ask if he could use his moustache to paint'” Historically, moustaches symbolized [...]
Boxing the Octopus (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Just glancing over the last week or so of posts and had to say thanks to Colleen for making the blog worthwhile. I've been buried and haven't added much. I'm turning a corner, however. I'll be back in my natural habitat soon and my list of author interviews is piling up. Almost a dozen terrific authors are patiently waiting for me to swim to the surface, so watch this space for some enlightened Q&A...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Several works attributed to the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí are currently on display at a Salvation Army Family Thrift Store in a seedy industrial neighborhood in Houston.
Bay Buzz (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
In only a decade, St. Petersburg has grown from a sleepy town to an arts mecca. Construction on the new $35 million Salvador Dali museum continues. World-class performers Seal and Il Divo performed in front of sold-out audiences. A new...
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