Organized by Curator María Elena Ortiz, Surrealism and Us is inspired by the history of Surrealism in the Caribbean with connections to notions of the Afrosurreal in the United States. Representing a ...
The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism. Shawn Walker’s Man ...
Artists: Allora & Calzadilla (Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla) ; Benny Andrews ; Belkis Ayón ; Firelei Báez ; Romare Bearden ; José Bedia ; Rigaud Benoit ; April Bey ; Henri-Robert Brésil ; ...
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition “Sixties Surreal” looks, on paper, like a winner. It surveys a dynamic decade of art, during a tumultuous political era that birthed many of our ...
Detail of Max Ernst, "Au rendez-vous des amis" (1922), featuring, left to right: Louis Aragon, André Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, and Gala Dalí (then Éluard), at ...
As museums and biennials revisit Surrealism, outsider practices and Indigenous cosmologies, a pattern emerges that suggests a renewed turn toward spirituality, mysticism and alternative knowledge ...
André Breton the great leader of the surrealist revolution is still alive and he is in New York Filmed with Almereydas favourite Pixelvision camera a childrens camera that became popular among ...
Surrealism is having a moment. As the art movement celebrates its centennial, a retrospective is underway in Shanghai, and another is planned for the Center Pompidou in Paris this fall. Believe it or ...
André Masson, “Allégories féminines” (“Feminine Allegories”) (circa1925). Ink on paper, 15 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches. Private Collection, Paris.Courtesy Jean-François Cazeau, Paris, France. (Image via ...
Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its ...
A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?