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

Hunter S. Thompson may have made a strong case for Las Vegas as America’s most hallucinogenic city, but I’d argue that Orlando is actually the capital of the United States of the Surreal. There’s an ...

Every person likes some form of art — whether it’s music, movies, or paintings. Then, within each form, there are plenty of styles to choose from. When it comes to painting styles, they range from ...

Objects made under the influence of the art movement have inspired many contemporary and modern dealers at the 10th edition of Tefaf New York. By Martha Schwendener This is the 100th anniversary of ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The day after the Philadelphia Art Museum’s surreal experience of watching its board ...

"Transference," a 1963 painting by Leonora Carrington, is among more than 100 works featured in “International Surrealism.” The exhibition is on view through March 22 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Joe ...

In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...

If you could change the world, what would you do? How would you do it? What does it take to make the world a better place? Meet Angela Latchkey, an American contemporary surreal artist based in the ...

While writer Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Surrealism in 1917, with the publication of writer and poet André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 it heralded a dynamic new movement that took ...

Art history suffers from misconceptions that, once generated, achieve the pervasive power of “urban myths:” fictional accounts that reinforce popular [mis]understandings through endless and uncritical ...

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 ...

Last year Surrealism turned 100. The movement, world-renowned for its wacky, often unsettling aesthetics and sometimes-erotic-sometimes-repulsive (regularly both) subject matter was celebrated with ...