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 ...

In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free from any ...

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 ...

Every person likes some form of art — whether it’s music, movies, or paintings. Then, within each form, there are plenty of styles to choose from. When it comes to painting styles, they range from ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a “transformative gift” of 188 works by some of the most ...

From the April, 1977 issue of High Times comes Rex Weiner’s interesting take on a 20th-century avant-garde movement. Dada was a defiant No to every thing but Me. If history may be seen as a metronome ...

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 still has ...

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?

An evening of pseudo-revolution in New York. “Bourgeois slobs!” screamed one demonstrator. “Go to Schrafft’s!” sneered another. The objects of the invective were à la mode art-establishment types ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On the surface it would seem like European Surrealism, Indigenous cultures, physics, extraterrestrial life and Zen Buddhism don’t have much, if anything, to ...

Humanoids announced today a new original graphic novel, Betrayal Of The Mind. a rare English-language work tracing the life and fate of the famous Surrealist figure Unica Zürn from contemporary artist ...