In 1916, the anti-war absurdist protest art movement Dadaism began in Europe during World War I, and from that grew ...
The Frist Art Museum presents International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams, an exhibition that investigates the ...
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 ...
Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free. André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 eve ...
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, ...
Belgium has unveiled a new men’s away soccer jersey that celebrates René Magritte and the country’s surrealist roots.
Forget Dalí and Magritte. This sprawling survey captures the extraordinary scope of a global artistic explosion, from fantastical feminists to black power activists to Vodou painter priests Subversive ...