Salvador Dalí

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Pucker up: Mae West Lips Sofa goes on display at Surrealist hub in West Sussex

Monthly public tours will reveal one of the UK’s most prestigious collections of Surrealist art, featuring works by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Leonora Carrington

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The 'world's first art amusement park' rides again in New York

Luna Luna, featuring a carousel by Keith Haring and David Hockney's enchanted forest, is travelling to The Shed

‘Dalí wanted his mouth to be very realistic’: fabled lip sofa prototype at heart of new Surrealist show in Paris

An exhibition of furniture at Galerie Poggi highlights the achievements of the mid-century Spanish design company BD Barcelona Design

‘A collective adventure’: Paris exhibition celebrates a century since the birth of Surrealism

André Breton’s rarely seen handwritten Surrealist manifesto will take centre stage at a Centre Pompidou exhibition, which includes masterpieces of the movement and gives prominence to overlooked artists

'Where Dalí became who he was’: new museum in artist's childhood home offers insight into his earliest years

The house where Dalí was born has been transformed into an immersive cultural experience, featuring intimate family spaces and grand technological installations

Starfish brooch designed by Salvador Dalí sells for nearly $1m at Christie’s

The brooch once belonged to socialite Rebekah Harkness, the subject of a Taylor Swift song

The art of fiction: how Salvador Dalí’s Toreador inspired my crime novel

A story set in Barcelona plays with the "mirror image" aspects of the Spanish artist's work

Trio of Salvador Dalí sculptures to headline UK summer art festival

Shrewsbury Arts Trail in the west of England has secured the works on loan from the Swiss-based Dalí Universe

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A topsy-turvy world: five artworks that have been hung upside down by curators

From Mondrian to Rothko, when it comes to hanging a painting, museums don't always get things right first (or even second) time

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'Dalíland' offers a by-the-numbers biopic no one needed or will remember

The film, starring Ben Kingsley as the late Surrealist artist, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month

Happy Dalí Day! Hawaiian gallery announces discovery of long-lost wax sculpture on anniversary of Surrealist’s birth

Lost Wax, now valued between $10m and $20m, was stored in a private vault for four decades

Wonder women: curator Cecilia Alemani on what we can expect at the female-dominated Venice Biennale this year

Plus, Van Gogh’s self-portraits in London, and the story of when Dalí met Freud

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A surreal encounter between Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud is the topic of a new Viennese show

The Lower Belvedere exhibition will explore how the Spanish artist's work was influenced by the inventor of psychoanalysis

The art world's favourite Easter and Passover images

We asked artists, museum directors, art historians and public figures who love art to pick the images that mean something to them at this time

Dalí and Gala with their 'heads full of clouds' go up for sale at Bonhams

Work will be offered without guarantee from the collection of the late Modernist composer Giancinto Scelsi

Biggest ever Dalí show comes to Russia—where his work was banned during the Soviet era

More than 180 works will feature in the Moscow exhibition including a section focusing on Dalí's Russian-born wife Gala

Top five acquisitions of the month

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Dalí’s lobster telephone to a bumper gift of indigenous art

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Dalí foundation sues California museum for use of artist’s name and image

Monterey’s Dalí17, which displays the 500-work private collection of the Ukrainian-born real estate developer Dimitry Piterman, features the Surrealist’s face—complete with upturned moustache—on its logo

Secret lives: new show recasts Gala Dalí as 'much more than a muse' to artists

Exhibition in Barcelona looks at the life and work of the Russian best known for being the wife of Salvador Dalí

Dalí discovery goes on show in New York

The painting was authenticated by Dalí expert Nicolas Descharnes

Salvador Dalí foundation completes digital catalogue raisonné after 17 years of research

Online inventory of more than 1,000 paintings will help scholars and the art market

Salvador Dalí is not the daddy

Spanish Surrealist’s body was exhumed for paternity DNA test in July

“Live” restoration of Dalí painting in Rotterdam

The conservation of Dalí’s Landscape with a Girl Skipping will be visible to the public

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Taipei takes attendance top spot with loans from China

Asian art is in the ascendancy globally, while in Europe, Salvador Dalí reigns supreme

Pompidou promotes Dalí as forerunner to performance art in new exhibition

The chaotic layout of the show is designed to embrace the theatricality and madness of the great artist