NEWS
HIGHLIGHTS
* AMC+ / True Crime TV: Featured expert on the 2003 theft of Dalí’s Crucifixion from Rikers Island.
* NPR: Interviewed on Dalí and AI for "All Things Considered"
* Major museum lectures: Public talk at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond).
* New scholarship: Published on Dalí, Tarot, Surrealism, and German Romanticism. 2025
2025
IN THE MEDIA
* Aug 28, 2025 — Featured on True Crime Story: Smugshot (AMC+, Season 2, Episode 2), discussing the 2003 theft of Dalí’s Crucifixion from Rikers Island Prison.
IN PRINT
* Dec 2025 — Published “The Magician’s Card Tricks: Considering Dalí’s Tarot,” in "Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story," ed. Tessel Bauduin (pp. 154–59).
* Jun 2025 — Published “Salvador Dalí: Liebe und Tod,” in "Surrealismus und Deutsche Romantik: Rendezvous der Träume" (Hamburger Kunsthalle) (pp. 305–07).
TALKS AND CONFERENCES
*Aug 14, 2025 — Public lecture: “A Ribbon Around a Bomb: Frida Kahlo’s Surrealist Encounter,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, VA.
* Jun 7, 2025 — Conference paper: “Reinterpreting Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory,” Global Surrealism conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
PRESS
* Jan 11, 2025 — Interviewed by Hindustan Times for “Surrealism’s Persistent Memory: Can We Look Past the Moustache?”
2024
TALKS AND CONFERENCES
* Dec 16, 2024 — Presented “Dalí’s Italian Campaign: Mysticism, Hiparxiologi, and the Divina Commedia” and chaired two sessions at 100 Years of Surrealism, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL.
* Oct 18, 2024 — Presented “Dalí’s Italian Campaign: Mysticism, Hiparxiologi, and the Divina Commedia” at Italy Is Even More Surrealist than the Pope: Surrealism in Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
IN THE MEDIA
* Sep 2024 — Featured guest on the Apple podcast Scamtown, discussing the theft of Dalí’s Crucifixion from Rikers Island.
* Jul 18, 2024 — Interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered about Dalí and AI.
FORTHCOMING
2026 (anticipated)" “Between Heaven and Hiparxiologi: Dalí, Pujols, and La Divina Commedia,” in 100 Years of Surrealism, The Salvador Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, FL).
