Fans can say hello to all things Dali

Tribune's Lisa Anderson paints the surrealist in his element By Lisa Anderson | Tribune correspondent NEW YORK — Manhattan's famed Plaza Hotel has the fictional Eloise. The Hilton will always have Paris (the heiress not the city). And The St. Regis hotel in New York has Salvador Dali. Few may know that the celebrity artist, instantly recognizable by the wild, waxy swoop of his upturned mustache and his hallucinatory images of melting clocks, called Suite 1501 of the posh midtown hotel his winter home for more than a decade beginning in the late 1950s, when his lavish parties drew the bold-faced names of the day. The St. Regis this summer is celebrating its long affiliation with the flamboyant Spanish Surrealist master, who is the subject of "Dali: Painting and Film," an exhibit that opened June 29 and runs through Sept. 17 at... [read full story]