*Black artists are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create fat, Black, and queer science fiction characters. “It just astonishes me that fat people in general are treated and depicted as ...

Remedios Varo’s technical brilliance—like her visual and philosophical preoccupations—was not of this world. Whether blotting, hatching, incising, scumbling, spattering, sponging or stippling paint, ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Tired of dead ends in Hollywood, James Cowan moved to Las Vegas and bet his career that the strange, surreal art he loved would be a big deal. It was a winning gamble. This story first appeared in the ...

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Last year Surrealism turned 100. The movement, world-renowned for its wacky, often unsettling aesthetics and sometimes-erotic-sometimes-repulsive (regularly both) subject matter was celebrated with ...