Gallery shops are coming up with increasingly novel ways to get visitors to part with their cash, as these Surreal Sweets prove.
Left over from the recent Dali and Film series which finished at the Tate Modern earlier this month, each piece of candy rock is decorated with a famous surrealist image, including lobsters, lips and of course, eyes.
Not sure they look that appetising but at £4 a bag, they might make an amusing gift.
Buy online at the Tate website.
Is “The Empire Strikes Back” the best Star Wars film? Quite probably. It certainly has the most memorable line in the series, perhaps one of the most famous lines in modern cinema.
Graphic designer, Rob Longworth, has made Darth Vaders’ immortal words to Luke Skywalker into a screenprint and a pretty stylish one at that. Originally designed for the film magazine Little White Lies, it has been turned into a limited edition print, entitled ‘I Am Your Father’. Restricted to just 25 copies, each one is numbered and signed by the artist. They cost £40 to UK customers and a little more for overseas buyers and are available from the Little White Lies website.
Apologies if this has ruined the plot of the film for anyone, but it was released 20-something years ago, so you really should have seen it by now.
I think it is safe to say that this is the most high brow tea towel we’ve ever featured. The Man Ray “Cadeau Audace” Tea Towel from the V&A is printed with the image of the infamous surrealist piece. Meaning ‘daring gift’ the sculpture is an iron embedded with nails and in its original form is somewhat menacing.
It is unlikely that Man Ray would have ever imagined his work reproduced on a tea towel, but here it is available to buy now for a reduced price of £2.50. So you can dry your dishes cheaply whilst appearing intellectual.
Visit the V&A Shop online.
The recently revamped and renamed Fashion Museum in Bath is currently hosting an exhibition entitled 1977. Consisting of twenty photographs, the exhibition focuses on the relationship between music and style.
The display includes all of the big names of the punk and new wave scene, including The Clash, The Jam, Don Letts, The Ramones and Debbie Harry. The photographers are an equally distinguished bunch, including Ian Dickson, Kevin Cummins, Howard Barlow and Pennie Smith.
The exhibition runs until the end of March 2008 at the Fashion Museum, Assembly Rooms, Bath. Further details can be found on their website www.fashionmuseum.co.uk
The disintegrating clock is the image most associated with Salvador Dali and its no surprise that museums and galleries are selling Dali-style timepieces. However, Dali’s work isn’t really something you would usually think of as being for children, but the Salvador Dali Museum in Florida is selling a Soft Dali Clock for Kids.
The clock is made from bright coloured foam but still features Dali’s signature melting appearance, although in this guise it looks fun rather than the stuff of nightmares you’d usually associate with surrealism.
It costs $19,95 (approximately £10) from the Salvador Dali Museum website.
Struggling to get to sleep is no laughing matter – and if light is stopping you from getting a full eight hours, you might want to check out this Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe eye mask.
Yes, practical and stylish, the design is Andy Warhol’s take on Marilyn Monroe – well, the eyes anyway, supplemented by a pink elastic band.
Apparently, one size fits just about all, with the mash selling for $8.99 (around £4.50).
