MoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang
The 1941 MoMA retrospective is a lifetime public hang. Salvador Dalí’s documented role is: MoMA organised the show. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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The 1941 MoMA retrospective is a lifetime public hang. Salvador Dalí’s documented role is: MoMA organised the show. He was the living subject and supplier of works. He did not staff MoMA. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. He did not staff MoMA.
Context
New York exile years. Gala manages access. Franco Spain is not yet the 1948 return. Named others on the file: MoMA curators; Gala as household manager. The public setting is the file around 1941-11-19. The instrument stays MoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang. The setting of MoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang is the public file around 1941-11-19. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Why it matters
Museum teaching hang in his lifetime. Welfare reading improving. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Shared responsibility is part of MoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang. Naming Salvador Dalí does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1941-11-19 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Salvador Dalí
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
MoMA organised the show. He was the living subject and supplier of works. He did not staff MoMA.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactMoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 19 November 1941 · verified
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.MoMA exhibition history — Salvador Dalí (1941)Museum of Modern Art · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Salvador DalíEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
MoMA’s exhibition history and Britannica independently date a 1941 New York Dalí exhibition. Official: MoMA exhibition history — Salvador Dalí (1941) (https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2085 (opens in a new tab); Museum of Modern Art). Independent: Britannica — Salvador Dalí (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: MoMA exhibition history — Salvador Dalí (1941) (https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2085 (opens in a new tab); Museum of Modern Art). Independent carrier: Britannica — Salvador Dalí (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Exhibition, not a unique attendance series. Established: a sourced public record of MoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang under 1941-11-19.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of MoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang are separate paths.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorSalvador Dalí
- contributed toFactMoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). MoMA mounts a 1941 Dalí retrospective while he is alive in the United States, a public teaching hang. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dal-moma-retrospective-1941
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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