Today when people talk about the movement, they think first of visual artists, especially Salvador Dalí. and René Magritte.

When viewed as a vehicle for various forms of liberation, the movement remains highly resonant even a century after its heyday. By Kate Guadagnino “SURREALISM” IS ONE of those buzzwords, like “curate” ...

André Masson, “Allégories féminines” (“Feminine Allegories”) (circa1925). Ink on paper, 15 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches. Private Collection, Paris.Courtesy Jean-François Cazeau, Paris, France. (Image via ...

We live in a society that abjures shared reality for the chaos of social media. The situation might have pleased the Surrealists, and it certainly would have amused their leader, André Breton, who ...

Today, Surrealism is thought of as being synonymous with artists like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, or Man Ray. Over the years, names of women artists like Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and ...

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...

The biggest treat comes right at the beginning of “Sixties Surreal,” just now opening at the Whitney. You emerge from the elevator, and right there are the camels. These are full-sized sculptures by ...