As you look at the paintings, you start to feel Castañeda slyly smiling at you, like he has a secret he’s daring you to ...

I sit down and open Photoshop with nothing more than the idea for a tavern in a fantasy setting. I begin with rough scribbles ...

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“Surreal @ Stanford” is an attempt to quantify the gaps and the bridges, the cold and the comforting, of attending Stanford. Whether it’s a first In-N-Out order or the sudden feeling of inadequacy, we ...

There are plenty of reasons to plan a holiday trip to Philly—we’re spotlighting three. Photograph by Tom Powel. Artwork by Alexander Calder © 2025 Calder Just an ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

"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 ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The day after the Philadelphia Art Museum’s surreal experience of watching its board ...

At the Philadelphia Art Museum's latest exhibit, objects and figures are just slightly off. The bodies in paintings are fractured, missing parts or sprouting beaks. Spikes burst out of a clothing iron ...

Tom McDonough does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

I wish Sixties Surreal focused more on destabilizing the concept of “real” than reifying it. Installation view of Sixties Surreal, feauturing Claes Oldenburg’s “Soft Toilet” (1966, center) and Alex ...

At long last, an exhibition of 1960s art has arrived that “makes the decade weird again,” said Jerry Saltz in NYMag.com. For too long, museums have been mounting tributes to the era suggesting that ...