Spectacle-Laden Dali Museum Now Open for Business
HOK’s new home for the largest collection of the Surrealist painter’s work outside of Spain is positively Dali-esque. We mean that in all the worst ways.
The new Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, has finally opened its doors, and, exactly as we expected, it's a great, big masturbatory tribute to The Great Masturbator himself.
We don't really need to get into that again, though. Suffice to say, the museum -- designed by the architecture giant HOK -- is still a raging spectacle. Its geodesic blob still looks like a tumor (for all its engineering wizardry). And the building still may or may not be an homage to adolescent horniness. But hey, judge for yourself.
[More images and the official press-speak at Designboom; or for a smarter take on Dali, check out these two excellent essays, one by George Orwell, the other by art critic Robert Hughes]
