The Whitney Museum of American Art’s ambitious effort to rewrite art history is largely a grab bag of disparate stuff.

Surrealism at 100’ and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘Man Ray: When Objects Dream’—highlight the movement’s weird, witty ...

In the evolving world of contemporary art, where large-scale installations and bold performances often dominate the spotlight ...

Today when people talk about the movement, they think first of visual artists, especially Salvador Dalí. and René Magritte.

By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

To be on the internet today is to confront unsettling images—of war, climate change, humanitarian crises. Weird visuals crop up too. A YouTube algorithm provides me, for instance, with videos of a ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join us every week for an ...

Female artists’ contributions to the Surrealist movement may be well known, but only a handful have received the recognition they deserve. A scholarly new exhibition in Frankfurt has brought together ...

Surrealism is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term to describe his play “Les Mamelles de Tiresias” (The Teats of Tiresias), which opened in a small ...