A large-scale exhibition of surrealism that first opened in Paris in 2024 will have its sole American iteration, “Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100,” at the Philadelphia Art Museum from Nov. 8, 2025, ...

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 ...

Susan Laxton, Surrealism at Play (image courtesy of Duke University Press) In the introduction, Laxton outlines the Surrealists’ hostility toward the utilitarian aspects of progress. Surrealists saw ...

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 ...

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?

Surrealism became the most talked-about art movement of 2022, almost by accident. The delay of the 2021 Venice Biennale due to the Covid pandemic gave its artistic director Cecilia Alemani more time ...

The term Surrealism (meaning beyond-realism) was coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917. A revolutionary literary, theatrical and artistic movement, Surrealism—with Sigmund Freud as ...

This volume evolved from "Vivísimo Muerto: Debates on Surrealism in Latin America," a symposium held at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, 25/26 June 2010. "We who have neither church nor ...

While I was reading Magritte: A Life, I started to notice apples everywhere. I’d be on the train, learning about The Son of Man—the 1964 portrait of a bowler-hatted man whose face is masked by a ...

Something strange is happening in fashion. Step inside Schiaparelli in Paris on the Place Vendôme and you will find an exquisitely tailored, black double-breasted blazer that boasts, on closer ...