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 ...

If each generation seizes the chance to remake Surrealism in its own image, that is because, firstly, as Tate’s 2022 exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders demonstrated, it crosses geographic, ...

In late 1924, surrealism emerged not as a quiet artistic idea, but through feuds, manifestos, and public chaos that reshaped ...

I wish Sixties Surreal focused more on destabilizing the concept of “real” than reifying it. Installation view of Sixties Surreal, feauturing Claes Oldenburg’s “Soft Toilet” (1966, center) and Alex ...

Probably. Before I left the house to visit the new Salvador Dalí exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, I noticed a headline that described President Joe Biden’s trip to Ukraine as “surreal.” Also, ...

Susan Laxton, Surrealism at Play (image courtesy of Duke University Press) In the introduction, Laxton outlines the Surrealists’ hostility toward the utilitarian aspects of progress. Surrealists saw ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exhibition of Wifredo Lam is about as safe a bet as the Museum of Modern Art can place and still plausibly say that it’s a bet on expanding the canon. The Cuban artist is one of the most famous ...

The Tate wants to wrestle surrealism away from the clutches of the west. But this show’s dream visions and bodily contortions can’t change the fact that everyone cringed before the might of Paris The ...