The art movement originated in France in 1924 and quickly began influencing all forms of media across the globe.
The traveling collection, opening Saturday, makes its only U.S. stop after being displayed in Brussels, Paris, Hamburg and ...
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 ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Andre Breton’s Surrealists styled themselves as professional troublemakers, sworn enemies of social and cultural convention, but in ...
A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others. By Deborah Solomon ...
The biggest treat comes right at the beginning of “Sixties Surreal,” just now opening at the Whitney. You emerge from the elevator, and right there are the camels. These are full-sized sculptures by ...
"I like the strong personal visionary stuff that generally doesn't fit in the mainstream," the artist Robert Crumb once wrote in a letter to the cartoonist B. N. Duncan. Dan Nadel quotes that letter ...
A new exhibit coming to The Whitney Museum of American Art reads like a who's who of revolutionary artists working in the 1960s. The show, titled Sixties Surreal, features Diane Arbus, Yayoi Kusama, ...
Longtime friends and fellow painters Mario Ayala and Henry Gunderson are subjects of a duo show at San Francisco’s Ever Gold Projects. Entitled “Easy to be Hard,” the presentation features new ...