IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CARIBBEAN—On sea days, cruise lines turn ships into floating classrooms, offering a buffet of educational seminars that can satisfy any lifetime learner like me. I absolutely ...

Salvador Dalí’s paintings of Christ are among his most polarizing works. Does his rarefied version of religion alienate us from the divine, or push us closer to transcendence? This week, Ed Simon ...

In Parties That Changed the World, two legendary soirées—one historical, one modern—reveal surprising cultural parallels across time. In 1991, Gianni Versace asked his cab driver to show him something ...

People think of surrealism as an art movement in the painting world. But the famous Surrealist, Salvador Dali, once said his paintings were just “color photography done by hand.” That’s the idea ...

Salvador Dalí‘s largest-ever painting—conceived in 1939 as the stage set for a Surrealist ballet at New York’s Metropolitan Opera—has sold for €254,400 ($293,240) at auction. Its new owner? The Dalí ...

A vibrant red lobster printed on a silk evening gown. A shimmery optical illusion embroidered on the back of a jacket. A quilted skeleton protruding from a fitted black dress. Each was a fashion ...