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 ...

International Surrealism’ showcases more than 100 works from Tate in London tracing a century of dream-fueled art.

Off-Ramp host John Rabe's mercifully short film "The Vigil" screens Sunday night at the International Surrealist Film Festival. COME INSIDE for details, and join John and other more famous guests at ...

Some visual artists, like some musicians, are one-hit wonders. But occasionally an artwork’s success, like that of an overplayed hit song, obscures a host of impressive B-sides. Such has been the case ...

Ch. 1. 'This Liberty and This Order': Art in France After the First World War / David Batchelor. Naturalism, Classicism, the School of Paris. Groups, magazines, programmes. Purism and L'Esprit Nouveau ...

Surrealist pictures sometimes leave gallery-goers with the uneasy suspicion that the joke is on them. Last week a surrealist one-man show in Manhattan gave onlookers the pleasure of being in on the ...

On “Surrealism” at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Aside from Dorothea Tanning, the exhibition brings into the limelight several female Surrealists and quasi-Surrealists, including Remedios Varo, Leonora ...

An overlooked female artist is starting to get her due. Nearly 30 years after her death, Leonor Fini's captivating, often gender-bending images are attracting renewed attention. She is one of the ...

“Never meet your heroes” is an old adage, but it’s apparently one that Surrealist superstar Salvador Dalí never paid much mind. In fact, even after a disappointing meeting with the father of ...