Jade Dellinger, an independent curator, offers to drive a small group to St. Petersburg to catch the Dali show at that city's Dali museum during the afternoon. It's maybe the first show there that isn’t made up entirely from their own collection — which is an incredible collection. I saw it last time I was here.
This show originated in Spain and is called Dali and the Media; it's excerpts from films, some fake newspapers, the House of Venus from the 1939 World's Fair, the Spellbound sequence (Hitchcock) and even a 7-minute Disney animated short that has never been seen. (Apparently the Disney folks, after stonewalling numerous enquiries about this legendary film, looked at their contract and realized that it said that none of the sketches and preliminary paintings for the film were theirs unless they completed the film — so it was completed recently. It sort of looks like a Daliesque sequence from Waking Life.)
There are a few video monitors with hilarious TV ads that Dali did in the 60s — one for Braniff Airlines, in which a parade of celebs exit a plane all saying, "If you’ve got it, flaunt it!" And a wonderful one for Alka Seltzer in which he paints the route to a woman's stomach on her unitard torso.
