NEWS
2025
Aug 28: Catch Dr. King on True Crime Story: Smugshot (AMC+, S2E2) discussing the 2003 theft of Dali's Crucifixion from Rikers Island Prison. Watch it here.
Aug 14: Presented public lecture, "A Ribbon Around a Bomb: Frida Kahlo's Surrealist Encounter," Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia.
June: Published “Salvador Dalí: Liebe und Tod,” in 'Surrealismus und Deutsche Romantik: Rendezvous der Träume" (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany), 305–307.
June 7: Presented paper, “Reinterpreting Dalí’s Persistence of Memory: Onanism and the Exorcism of Revolution,” at the "Global Surrealism" conference, University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland).
January 11: Interviewed by 'Hindustan Times' for the story, 'Surrealism's Persistent Memory: Can We Look Past the Moustache?' Hindustan Times is one of the largest newspapers in India with 8.6 million daily readers.
2024
December 16: Presented paper, "Dalí’s Italian Campaign: Mysticism, Hiparxiologi, and the Divina Commedia" and chaired two sessions at the "100 Years of Surrealism" conference, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
October 18: Presented paper, 'Dalí’s Italian Campaign: Mysticism, Hiparxiologi, and the Divina Commedia,' at 'Italy is even more Surrealist than the Pope: Surrealism in Italy,' a conference sponsored by the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy.
September: Featured guest on Apple Podcast ‘Scamtown,' discussing the theft of Dalí’s Crucifixion from Rikers Island.
July 18: Interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" for a feature on Dali and AI. 'All Things Considered' is American NPR's flagship news program, reaching 11.9 million weekly listeners.
2023
September: 'Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance' was shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association's Book Prize for 'Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection.'.
April 20-June 25: "Salvador Dali/Philippe Halsman" enjoyed a second run at the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, drawing 15,472 visitors.
FORTHCOMING
“Dalí’s Tarot,” in Tessel Bauduin (ed.), Surrealism and the Tarot (Fulgur Press. December 2025).
