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Salvador Dalí’s Sublime Faith

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Salvador Dalí’s paintings of Christ are among his most polarizing works. Does his rarefied version of religion alienate us from the divine, or push us closer to transcendence? This week, Ed Simon plumbs Dalí’s “nuclear mysticism,” a marriage of quantum physics and Catholic faith that yielded a Crucifixion so unsettling it was physically attacked not once, but twice. In other reads for a most pious or delightfully secular weekend, Emily Drew Miller embraces matzah as a medium to examine political rifts in the Jewish faith; Natalie Haddad takes us inside The Met's new Raphael show; and curator Ryan N. Dennis shares her journey from community engagement to leadership. Plus: Check out our exclusive interview with the anonymous woman in all those gallery press photos ... and the rest of our 2026 April Fools issue . It's an annual Hyperallergic tradition, and a reminder that the revolution requires laughter.…

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