Think These Times Are Surreal? Add A Small Dose Of Dalí To Your Day
The Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida is still closed as a result of COVID-19, but an online video produced by the museum will transport you to 1929 Paris, a time when surrealism was at a crossroads.
Just after Sept. 11, I went to my favorite Washington, D.C., museum — The Phillips Collection — to look at still lifes. The one I remember best was a small oil by Édouard Manet, painted as he was dying. Peonies. So richly textured you could almost smell the flowers. (You can see.)
