At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...

Harnessing wild apparitions from the primal unconscious, artists like André Breton, Frida Kahlo, and René Magritte sought to distort and counteract the often dark realities of their time. Blending the ...

Foroozan Shirghani’s dark, poetic and eerily surrealist paintings, drawings, ceramics, moody video, and expressive textiles take root in a worldview colored by injustice, displacement, loss, and ...

In "I'll Drown," Sóley sings in hushed tones as if confessing dark secrets to a childhood friend. Songwriting can be a personal and revealing process. But for Sóley (last name: Stefánsdóttir), it's an ...

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” ...

With most historical art movements, we find that there are scores of women whose influence and work have been overlooked or at the least undervalued for their contributions to the canon. The ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Tired of dead ends in Hollywood, James Cowan moved to Las Vegas and bet his career that the strange, surreal art he loved would be a big deal. It was a winning gamble. This story first appeared in the ...

It was the kind of feel-good mystery that one might encounter on "Antiques Roadshow." While Austinite Lars Frazer was growing up in Southern California, his rather buttoned-down stepfather — Richard ...

The Bakersfield Museum of Art continues an annual tradition of a special Art After Dark on Thursday by honoring an older tradition. For its Surrealist Masquerade, the museum will transform its ...