The Philadelphia Art Museum is hosting Family Festival: Sweet Dreams on Sunday, Dec. 7, a day of creative activities inspired by the museum’s new exhibition “Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100.” The ...

"Long Live Surrealism!" at the Blanton Museum of Art is a far-ranging exhibition covering one of the most beloved—and approachable—art movements of modern times. “Long Live Surrealism! 1924-Today” is ...

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 ...

Between the rise of artificial intelligence and the proliferation of “fake news,” living in the 21 st-century can sometimes feel a bit surreal. That is why there is perhaps no better time to revisit ...

Over my nine years of teaching visual art in schools, surrealism has been one of my favorite styles of art to explore with my classes and a consistent student favorite, as well. Surrealism originated ...

“Exquisite Corpse” is a term for a collaborative art game created by the Surrealists of the early 20th century. A paper is folded into thirds and three artists take turns drawing on one section, after ...

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 ...

Surrealism was a movement that emphasised “the fantastic and the absurd”, said Aisling O’Leary in The Daily Telegraph. Starting in the 1920s, its artists created “Freudian dreamscapes” that seemingly ...

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 ...