Yves Tanguy "Fraud in the garden" (1930). The painting had been restored to hide damage to the canvas from an attack on a Paris cinema in 1930 (courtesy Becca Pollak) A painting by French surrealist ...

Surrealism is one art phenomenon that everybody feels they understand. It may have been one of the 20 th century’s truly momentous cultural movements, with its aspirations to undermine the entire ...

In the evolving world of contemporary art, where large-scale installations and bold performances often dominate the spotlight ...

This year, 2024, marks the centenary of Surrealism—a full 100 years since the poet and critic André Breton debuted the Surrealist Manifesto. Not only that, it’s also been a century since the writer ...

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 ...

Not quite an example of winning through intimidation, the exhibition “Drawing Surrealism” partly persuades through the sheer volume of its offerings — distinctive, once wildly avant-garde and now ...

Surrealism as a formal art movement is barely a century old. From its roots in 1920s Paris, it has always been bold, modern ...

Surrealism at 100’ and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘Man Ray: When Objects Dream’—highlight the movement’s weird, witty ...

By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.