In the evolving world of contemporary art, where large-scale installations and bold performances often dominate the spotlight ...

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 ...

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Today when people talk about the movement, they think first of visual artists, especially Salvador Dalí. and René Magritte.

We’ve all been there. The dreaded holiday small talk with far-flung relatives and nosy neighbors back home, asking such ominous questions as, “So what is it that you actually do?” For those moments ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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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 ...