Middle and high school students will be featured in a new surrealism exhibit at the Norton Museum of Art early next year. The Norton celebrates 100 years of surrealism with “DREAMLAND: The Intriguing ...

For years, the Tate has held a trove of artworks by 20th-century British artist Eileen Agar without even necessarily knowing it. “Interestingly, [her assemblages are] in their archive, not in their ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. While traveling through London in the mid-1970s, the ...

Surrealism, a cultural movement that found its roots in the 1920s, underwent a transformative recontextualization in the 1970s through the lens of Amiri Baraka, coining the term Afro-Surrealism.

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 ...

Was Joseph Cornell a surrealist? He has been described as a “lone star within the surrealist constellation,” a turn of phrase that might have pleased the avid stargazer of Flushing, New York, but one ...

Just in time for Halloween, from Oct. 20-23, the Atlanta Surrealist Group is offering up a subterranean journey to the Underworld in the caverns beneath the city — the No Tomorrow Gallery at ...

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” ...

To be on the internet today is to confront unsettling images—of war, climate change, humanitarian crises. Weird visuals crop up too. A YouTube algorithm provides me, for instance, with videos of a ...

Held at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, this ambitious exhibition reconsiders surrealism as a far-reaching cultural force that has reshaped both art and everyday life. Defined by André Breton in ...