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 ...

Surrealism began in France in the 1920s with a manifesto calling on writers and artists to unlock the power of the subconscious mind. The resulting mix of dreams, nightmares, psychological insights ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carroll Cloar’s exhibit “The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South” delves into themes of the Southern Gothic realm. Cloar’s works express a combination of abstract surrealism ...

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 ...

"7000 Miles Davises," by Andrew Nordin, oil on canvas, 2014. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver. Sign-up now for headlines, breaking news, hometown stories, ...

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 ...

51 x 75 in. (129.5 x 190.5 cm.) Inspired by drawings made by children, Hiltner has created a chaotic narrative of surreal figures and animals drawn in red acrylic across an expanse of raw canvas in ...

died at the age of 61 on Jan. 16, 2015 after a battle with cancer. Born in 1953 in Florence, Ala., Cashion moved to Tuscaloosa in the 1970s, where he lived in a little wood-frame shotgun house on ...