Detail from Salvador Dali's painting "Portrait of my Dead Brother"

Dalí, Freud and Surrealism

February 20, 2009 – November 8, 2009

The exhibit spans Dalí’s entire career, beginning with his earlier work where his concern with landscape and family portraits precedes the influence of Freud and Surrealism.

Photograph of artist Wilfredo Lam standing beside artworks

Wilfredo Lam in North America

October 3, 2008 – January 11, 2009

Lam contributed a non-European Afro-Cuban voice to Western art, synthesizing Cubism, Surrealism, “primitivism,” Négritude, Afro-Cuban history, and the African-derived Santeria religion.

Detail from Salvador Dali's painting "Memory of the Child-Woman"

Myth in Dalí’s Art

October 3, 2008 – February 15, 2009

Seeing how Freud drew on his knowledge of classical mythology in his psychoanalytic theories, Dalí constructed his own artistic identity by employing his understanding of these myths and symbols in his art and writing.

Detail from Salvador Dali's painting "Daddy Longlegs of the Evening-Hope!"

THE FINE ART OF COLLECTING DALÍ

June 22, 2008 – January 1, 2008

This exhibit examines the story of the our paintings through the metriculously assebled archive of the Morses, from the hands of the artist to their home at The Dalí.

Detail from Salvador Dali's painting "Three young surrealist women holding in their arms the skins of an orchestra"

Women: Dalí’s View

June 13, 2008 – September 24, 2008

A selection of over 90 works from the permanent collection (painting, drawing, watercolors, prints and objects) representative Dalí’s various creations of the female image.