Last Call For Dali

HARTFORD — More than 40,000 people have seen “Salvador Dali’s Optical Illusions” since it opened on January 21 at Wadsworth Atheneum. The special exhibition is the best-attended show at America’s oldest public art museum in at least a decade, and is likely to surpass “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment,” presented at the same venue in 1989, for attendance figures.

Tickets to “Savador Dali’s Optical Illusions” have been sold to patrons in 28 states, including Washington state, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

“Optical Illusions” offers visitors a major survey of Dali’s trompe l’oeil work. It is also a celebration of the Wadsworth not nly being first museum in history (in 1934) to purchase a Dali painting, but also the also first to present an exhibition of Surrealist art.

The last date to see “Salvador Dali’s Optical Illusions” at Wadsworth Atheneum is Sunday, March 26. The show then travels to the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (April 19 to June 18), and then to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh (July 23 to October 1).

For the final weekend of the show in Hartford, the Wadsworth Atheneum will be open until midnight on Friday, March 24; until 6 pm on Saturday, March 25; and until 10 pm on Sunday, March 26.

For tickets, call 877/600-MAIN.Wadsworth Atheneum is at 600 Main Street.