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 ...

If each generation seizes the chance to remake Surrealism in its own image, that is because, firstly, as Tate’s 2022 exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders demonstrated, it crosses geographic, ...

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 ...

Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free. André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his ...

Today, Surrealism is thought of as being synonymous with artists like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, or Man Ray. Over the years, names of women artists like Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and ...

An exhibition of Wifredo Lam is about as safe a bet as the Museum of Modern Art can place and still plausibly say that it’s a bet on expanding the canon. The Cuban artist is one of the most famous ...

Probably. Before I left the house to visit the new Salvador Dalí exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, I noticed a headline that described President Joe Biden’s trip to Ukraine as “surreal.” Also, ...

Max Ernst, "The Angel of Hearth and Home" (1937); Modern Art Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich (© Max Ernst / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024) MUNICH — The influence of Sigmund Freud’s theories of ...

The Tate wants to wrestle surrealism away from the clutches of the west. But this show’s dream visions and bodily contortions can’t change the fact that everyone cringed before the might of Paris The ...

Every product on this page was chosen by a Harper's BAZAAR editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Surrealism is everywhere (again) in fashion. The 20th century art ...