Explores Dali’s introduction to the Parisian fashion world through the creation of his spectacular jewels.

Exhibition Dali - Audio Guide

Dali jewels

Halsman was the perfect partner for realising Dalí’s ever complex ideas in the medium of photography.

Dali and Halsman

Discusses Dali’s late years, the passing of his beloved Gala and the death of the world's most recognisable artist.

Late Dali

Dali explores the science of optics and meets Alice Cooper to create the first hologram.

Dali and optical experiments

Discusses Salvador Dali, nuclear mysticism and the explosion of the first Atomic Bomb.

Dali and nuclear mysticism

Discusses Dalí’s extraordinary costumes for the Ballets Russes and the events that surround the opening of Léonide Massine’s Bachannale in New York.

Dali and the ballet

Dalí loved the idea of Hollywood, with its razzle-dazzle and celebrity and, of course, its potential to reach vast international audiences.

Dali and Hollywood

Discisses Dalí’s return to the values of the High Renaissance.

Dali and the Renaissance

Discusses Dali's fascination with Freud and their first meeting which by many accounts did not go particularly swimmingly.

Dali and Freud

The circumstances of World War II forced Dali and Gala into exile in 1940 - they fled to America where Dalí had become famous.

Dali and America

Discusses Dalí’s politics and life through a time of civil war in Spain and his narrow escape to France.

Dali and war

It had become evident that Dali's fame rested as much on his antics as his art. Is it really true that Dali was nearly decapitated in 1939?

Dali and New York

Discusses the showing of Dalí’s work, Memory of the Child-Woman, in the 1939 great exhibition of modern art, during an era where Dalí’s reputation as a significant artist preceded the arrival of his work.

Dali and Melbourne

Discusses Dalí's meeting with André Breton in Paris and his involvement in the Surrealist movement.

Dali, Paris and Surrealism

Discusses the mysterious Gala, Dalí's muse and collaborator.

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Exhibition Dali - Audio Guide

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