The Whitney Museum of American Art’s ambitious effort to rewrite art history is largely a grab bag of disparate stuff.

Surrealism at 100’ and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘Man Ray: When Objects Dream’—highlight the movement’s weird, witty ...

By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

In the evolving world of contemporary art, where large-scale installations and bold performances often dominate the spotlight ...

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 ...

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 ...

Female artists’ contributions to the Surrealist movement may be well known, but only a handful have received the recognition they deserve. A scholarly new exhibition in Frankfurt has brought together ...

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 ...

“Surrealism Beyond Borders,” at the Metropolitan Museum, is a huge, deliriously entertaining survey of the transnational spread of a movement that was codified by the poet and polemicist André Breton ...