From a steam train shooting out of a fireplace (“Time Transfixed,” by René Magritte) or to the nude back of a woman transformed into a violin (“Le Violin D’Ingres” by Man Ray) surrealist art still has ...
A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but ...
In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free from any ...
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 ...
A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?