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 ...
Not quite an example of winning through intimidation, the exhibition “Drawing Surrealism” partly persuades through the sheer volume of its offerings — distinctive, once wildly avant-garde and now ...
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 ...
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 ...
If asked to identify an abstract painting, most people will readily point to one of Picasso”s works or Salvador Dali”s “Persistence of Time.” Although cubism and surrealism are the unmistakable norm ...
Leonora Carrington’s “Bird Bath: from 1974. Peter Dechar's "Pears #67-8" from 1967. “Regret” by Giorgio de Chirico, a stunning, early painting from 1916. An installation view of “A Long Affair: ...
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 ...
Sam Durant, “The Séance, When History Wakes Up (Frantz Fanon)” (2014) (left) and “Poetry Must Be Made By All, Not By One” (2014) (right) (all photos by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) A Surrealism of ...