"Antics Aside, a Dalí of Constant Ambition" Review

The late Salvador Dali's current show raises questions of whether or not his work was always as genius as everyone says it was. This article discusses Dali's late work which is displayed in this show titled, "Dalí: The Late Work” at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. 
After Dali became famous for his surrealistic paintings, he began to showcase his persona to the public which made him more of a character than a visual artist. The way they described it in the article was perfect. His later work was simply not as good because his career was "exacerbated by relentless self-promotion, shameless hucksterism." 

The author does admit though that the show gets much better after you get away from Dali's conceited portraits and more into his paintings. He was especially fond of Dali's "Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone" which is a clever reference to Picasso's "Guernica."
Unfortunately, to me I would say that Dali is the art world's Lady Gaga, and while he did have genuine talent, it was hidden behind his larger than life persona. This has left him to be the hipsters' cult symbol; remembered mostly for his mustache and second only to Andy Warhol.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/arts/design/03dali.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=arts