Although Castañeda has been a pivotal figure in modern Latin American art in the United States since his first solo ...
The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism.
A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but ...
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 ...
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 ...
The exhibition will explore the late Mexican artist’s impact on women artists across Mexico, the Americas and Europe ...
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 ...
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 ...