Surreal. It’s one of those words like insane or awesome that’s taken a beating from aggressive misuse. I’ve heard the term applied to both a bus driver wearing a funny hat and the sight of the second ...

A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but ...

With his pencil and paper, Dry's work pays attention to the tiniest of details like folds of skin, eye lashes, droplets of water and a whole lot. With so much attention to details, Dry takes as much ...

The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is currently hosting an exhibit on surrealism in contemporary artwork. Running from Aug. 12, 2023 to Jan. 28, 2024, “The Surrealist Impulse” attempts to display ...

Detail of Sam Durant’s “Les Armes Miraculeuses” (2014), marble, wood, eggs, shells (fabrication, Dan Axe, Telara Studio d’Arte, Carrara, Italy), overall 34 x 18.5 x 24 in. (86.4 x 47 x 61 cm) (all ...

Salvador Dali's "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans" (Premonition of Civil War), 1936, oil on canvas; on display during the Philadelphia Museum of Art's current exhibition, "The Surrealists: Works ...

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 ...

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” ...

With most historical art movements, we find that there are scores of women whose influence and work have been overlooked or at the least undervalued for their contributions to the canon. The ...

BEVERLY — Wells Chandler’s “Psychedelic Soccer Dada” at Montserrat College of Art’s Montserrat Gallery is all about twerking, but it has nothing to do with dancing. The Germanic word means “twist,” ...