The work of Salvador Dalí is a treasure trove of surprises. His vast and extraordinary output is spread throughout Catalonia, primarily among the museums of Figueres, Portlligat, and Púbol. But, from time to time, these three locations... Dalinian triangle New pieces of great value continue to arrive, which the Catalan public can admire for the first time. This is the case with a fantastic folding screen or screen made with oriental motifs, created by the artist in his earliest period, when he was a teenager. It is now being presented for the first time at the Salvador Dalí Birthplace Museum in the center of Figueres, until September 13.

On Monday night, on TV3, the two episodes ofThe coroner and Dalí We were held captivated with unexpected force. We were drawn in by the curiosity that the murky world of Salvador Dalí often evokes, and by the narrative suspense of Dr. Narcís Bardalet. The combination worked. The forensic expert, the protagonist, unfolds the stories as if telling ghost stories by the fire, with the inevitable suspicion that there's more to his tale than substance. He speaks with a conviction and authority that transform his perception into a kind of singular and definitive truth. But above all, he plays on the morbid fascination that often surrounds the handling of corpses. The journalist Manel Alías acts as an interlocutor, allowing the events to unfold gradually. The dialogue between these two professionals constructs an interesting and spontaneous script, making the viewer feel included in the conversation.

After more than thirty years of experience in front of and behind the camera, Joan Frank Charansonnet (The Valley of the Holy Cross, 1971) has found a long-standing role in Salvador Dalí. He had already played him in the theater and brought him to the cinema with The Angelus case, Dalí's fascination (2023), a film that explores the Empordà painter's obsession with Jean-François Millet's painting and which will now be released in more than seventy theaters in France.

After losing around €3 million in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation "comes full circle," as the foundation's president, Jordi Mercader, said this Friday during a breakfast meeting. Now, a new phase is opening in which the institution aims to achieve greater cultural influence, driven by having achieved excellent results in 2024: a record number of 1,005,073 visitors to the three Dalí museums and more than 3.5 million cumulative visitors to the international immersive exhibitions, as well as a financial surplus. "From now on, we want to be more of a cultural foundation than a foundation that is solely a museum and talks about audience figures," says Mercader.

Carla Simón, the filmmaker who made history by winning the Berlinale's Golden Bear with a film in Catalan, Alcarràs, has now achieved against all odds a new milestone: his film Pilgrimage has been selected to compete in the official section of the Cannes Film Festival.

"It is a very interesting find for the market of Dalí's works", states Bernard Ewell, member of the American Society of Appraisers, about the painting Cosmic Madonna. For Elliott H. King, professor of art history and curator of the exhibition Dalí: the late work in Atlanta, "the revival of the painting in all its dazzling colour shows it to be one of Dalí's most successful and elaborate works of the post-war period". Cosmic Madonna is a 152.5 x 91.5 cm oil painting dated from 1958 that mixes an interest in mysticism and atomic energy. It had been seen in a couple of exhibitions in the late 1950s and in another in New York in 1965, but since then it had decorated a wall of the buyer's residence. In fact, the work is included in the catalogue raisonné of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, although it is only reproduced in black and white.