Salvador Dali, the surrealist painter, self-promoter and genuine eccentric, died Monday at a hospital in Figueras, Spain. He was 84. Dali, an unforgettable figure with slicked-down hair, waxed ...

The great Spanish and Catalan surrealist Salvador Dalí didn't only produce canvases and sculptures. He also worked on several movies, but his most ambitious was never made. Back in 1937, Dalí came up ...

When Salvador Dalí first exhibited “Lobster Telephone” at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1938, he replaced the handset of a desk telephone with an actual crustacean. Over the ...

In the early 1970s surrealist icon Salvador Dalí published a lavish cookbook called Les Dîners de Gala. Decades later, the book is being republished for a new and much wider audience. If you're of a ...

Loughborough University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. My triumph will lie in the fact that I was able to overwhelm my period and at the same time achieve immortality. This ...

After a less-than-perfect meeting with Sigmund Freud, what happened when Salvador Dalí met another of his heroes, Pope Pius XII?

When the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí and the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud met, it proved, not surprisingly, to be a memorable occasion. The encounter took place in London on 19 July 1938, a ...

The National Galleries of Scotland announced Monday that it raised £853,000 ($1.1 million) to buy a white Salvador Dalí “Lobster Telephone” so the iconic sculpture, commissioned by British poet and ...

The cookbook, reissued by Taschen last year, is named after Dalí’s wife because, as Green tells us, the couple was “known for their opulent imaginative dinner parties, attending by many celebrity ...

If you're of a certain age or if you love surrealist art, then you probably remember Salvador Dali. He was widely known for his celebrity persona, his pointy mustache and his canvases filled with ...