He also challenges the reflexive association of Surrealism with art, such as Salvador Dalí’s unforgettable painting of deliquescing dials, “The Persistence of Memory” (1931).

While surrealism had a reputation for misogyny — Breton and the group’s early male hierarchy thought of women within the movement as simply “muses” — women were making and exhibiting art ...

While surrealism had a reputation for misogyny — Breton and the group’s early male hierarchy thought of women within the movement as simply “muses” — women were making and exhibiting art ...

Surrealism was especially embraced in Latin America (although everywhere, really, as the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition “Surrealism Beyond Borders,” which opened in late 2021, attested ...

A new exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art explores how various myths captured the imaginations of Surrealist artists like Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

Surrealism’s core message was one of championing radical freedom of thought and modern experiments in literature and visual arts. The strange becomes familiar; the familiar becomes strange.

Certainly, if you consider what’s currently happening in visual arts, it appears that we are in a major Surrealist revival. The most prominent bellwether is the Venice Biennale, which opens to ...

The price was the highest yet paid for a Surrealist work of art at auction, and made Magritte the 16th artist to break the $100 million threshold, according to data compiled by the French market ...