The Musée du Luxembourg chronicles British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington's remarkable, eight-decade career.

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 ...

The word “surreal” is used today to describe everything from the aftermath of natural disasters to celebrity courtroom dramas, which makes it easy to forget its origins as one of the most shockingly ...

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement. Surrealism is an avant-garde ...

Yves Tanguy "Fraud in the garden" (1930). The painting had been restored to hide damage to the canvas from an attack on a Paris cinema in 1930 (courtesy Becca Pollak) A painting by French surrealist ...

This year, 2024, marks the centenary of Surrealism—a full 100 years since the poet and critic André Breton debuted the Surrealist Manifesto. Not only that, it’s also been a century since the writer ...

It was the kind of feel-good mystery that one might encounter on "Antiques Roadshow." While Austinite Lars Frazer was growing up in Southern California, his rather buttoned-down stepfather — Richard ...

Several major Surrealist works that have never been sold at auction will go under the hammer tomorrow (16 March) in the 25-lot sale Surrealism and Its Legacy sale at Sotheby’s Paris, including a work ...

From Surrealist masters to radical contemporary experiments, CDMX Art Week unfolds as a dense, multivocal map of Latin ...