Dalí in a diving helmet: how the Spaniard almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain

Eighty years ago, as Dylan Thomas served boiled string, Salvador Dalí put on a diving suit, grabbed a billiard cue – and changed British art for ever. Can new exhibition Surreal Encounters recapture that spirit?

A cultural stop on Venice’s Grand Canal. For Your Eyes Only.

For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, one of the world’s most reputable museums for 20th Century European and American art, extends its collection by offering “For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism“. This summer exhibition housed in its founder’s former home on … Read more