Contemporary art wouldn’t be the same without Surrealism. In 1924, when French writer, poet, and critic André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto, no one likely thought about the impact it would ...

No one throws Surrealist dinner parties like they used to. When was the last time you invited a few friends over, and served them an entirely blue-dyed feast? Not recent enough, that’s for sure.

The art market has a strong Surrealist vibe entering the fall season. It struck me as I rushed around New York last week, from the Armory Show to satellite events and gallery exhibitions. The ...

The biggest treat comes right at the beginning of “Sixties Surreal,” just now opening at the Whitney. You emerge from the elevator, and right there are the camels. These are full-sized sculptures by ...

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 ...

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” ...

A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others. By Deborah Solomon ...

“Gala is the only person I listen to,” Salvador Dalí once wrote of his wife, in a letter to a friend. “She alone can say what my future will be.” Gala Dalí moves onto center stage in Michèle Gerber ...

When I was invited to do this Procreate tutorial, to explore how to create surreal art in Procreate, I immediately knew it wouldn’t be an easy task. Revisiting the work of a surrealist artist was both ...

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 ...