With a show at Hauser and Wirth in Los Angeles and a survey at Vancouver Art gallery, the artist is ascending to the highest rungs of the art world.

Who doesn’t know Salvador Dalí’s famous painting popularly known as “Melting Clocks” or “Soft-Watches” — painted and titled by the artist “The Persistence of Memory” in 1931, I ask rhetorically?

These dark themes were explored by famous artists across the continent ... in which Gothic architecture and medieval painting influenced modern art, and began to conjecture which works, shown ...