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1. Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory' Is Up for Auction The Salvador Dali masterpiece “The Persistence of Memory” is expected to fetch up to $30 million at an upcoming auction. The iconic 1931 painting is one of the most recognizable artworks of the 20th century and is considered a Surrealist masterpiece. It is also one of Dali’s most famous works. The painting is expected to be sold to the highest bidder at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 13. 2. Salvador Dali's Art Inspires Scientists to Create 'Dali-Inspired' Molecule Scientists in the UK have created a molecule inspired by the work of Surrealist painter Salvador Dali. The molecule, which has been dubbed “Dali-Inspired”, is composed of two atoms of carbon and two atoms of hydrogen. The molecule was inspired by Dali’s painting “The Persistence of Memory”, which is known for its melting clocks. The scientists said that the molecule's shape was inspired by the curved forms of the melting clocks in the painting. 3. Salvador Dali's Work Now Featured in
Dali art & surrealismArt is not created in vacuum. It forms as a product of cultural, economic and emotional upbringing of the artist. Dali’s inner world is vast and complex, and his symbols become the hints to discovering and understanding the artist’s true nature, his mind and soul. Almost every a
Have you all been following this? Since my other post about Van Gogh's Sunflowers being vandalized, it has happened several more times. Monet's Haystacks, Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earing, and one ofToulouse-Lautrec's works.From what I've read, all of the works are fine (Thank goodness for prote
EVEN THE OPENING OF “Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces,” an exhibition chronicling the approach, sensibility, and material existence of Linda Goode Bryant’s now-celebrated artist-run space, was itself a legendary scene. Goode Bryant, the dauntless activist, filmmaker, and JAM founder, and Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, the inventive researcher and curator of performance and media at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, danced energetically, face-to-face, in a West African modality before a line of Senegalese drummers. (Lax curated the show with Lilia Rocio Taboada in collaboration with Goode Bryant and
A statue of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cells were used in research without her consent, will take the place of a memorial to Confederate general Robert E. Lee on a plaza in Roanoke, Virginia, where Lacks was born. The statue of Lee, which was erected in 1960, was vandalized and eventually removed during the global Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 that followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police.Funding for the Lacks statue was provided by the organization Roanoke Hidden Histories, which raised $180,000 for the monument. The statue will be
Upon viewing Sandy Orgel’s Linen Closet, one of the room-sized installations exhibited at the legendary “Womanhouse” in Los Angeles in 1972, a visitor remarked, “This is exactly where women have always been—in between the sheets and on the shelf.” If Orgel turned to the upright figure of the display mannequin to explore the domestic, societal expectations of women, Nicole Wermers riffs on the art-historical trope of the passive (and similarly mute) odalisque in her exhibition “P4aM2ARF!,” its title an encrypted acronym for “Proposal for a Monument to a Reclining Female!” Her large sculptures