Ninety years ago André Breton asked: “Can’t the dream be used in solving the fundamental problems of life?” The answer, of course, is no. The unconscious does not offer some insight into the mystery ...

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show ...

“Surreal” is a slippery word. No longer used to refer exclusively to the art movement that began in the 1920s, the term is tossed around as a synonym for “dreamlike” or “bizarre.” It has been so ...

The history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for Ren Magritte. “You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris,”Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his ...

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...

"Transference," a 1963 painting by Leonora Carrington, is among more than 100 works featured in “International Surrealism.” The exhibition is on view through March 22 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Joe ...

Foreword / Kathleen S. Bartels -- Introduction. Exhibiting Surrealism / Dawn Ades -- Automatism -- Revolution by night. Haunting fathers: Giorgio de Chirico's The child's brain and Max Ernst's Pietà ...

Simulation as hysterical muse -- From psychological medicine to surrealism -- surrealism and the Salpêtrière legacy -- Artist-sorcerers : mimicry, magic and hysteria -- A theatre of hysteria : ...

Lee Miller was one of the great photographers of the surrealist movement. While many such photographers embraced heavily manipulated prints and distortions at this time, Miller instead pursued ...

The art market has a strong Surrealist vibe entering the fall season. It struck me as I rushed around New York last week, from the Armory Show to satellite events and gallery exhibitions. The ...