Over my nine years of teaching visual art in schools, surrealism has been one of my favorite styles of art to explore with my classes and a consistent student favorite, as well. Surrealism originated ...

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s ambitious effort to rewrite art history is largely a grab bag of disparate stuff.

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

The art market has a strong Surrealist vibe entering the fall season. It struck me as I rushed around New York last week, from the Armory Show to satellite events and gallery exhibitions. The ...

The emerging artist duo Pakui Hardware were putting the finishing touches onto their installation for the Lithuanian national pavilion at the Venice Biennale, located in the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, ...

From a steam train shooting out of a fireplace (“Time Transfixed,” by René Magritte) or to the nude back of a woman transformed into a violin (“Le Violin D’Ingres” by Man Ray) surrealist art still has ...

If you could change the world, what would you do? How would you do it? What does it take to make the world a better place? Meet Angela Latchkey, an American contemporary surreal artist based in the ...

Every person likes some form of art — whether it’s music, movies, or paintings. Then, within each form, there are plenty of styles to choose from. When it comes to painting styles, they range from ...

Not quite an example of winning through intimidation, the exhibition “Drawing Surrealism” partly persuades through the sheer volume of its offerings — distinctive, once wildly avant-garde and now ...

Playwright Manuel Puig does witty tangos with words in ”Under a Mantle of Stars,” which was given its U.S. premiere by the Contemporary Arts Theater in Georgetown. The late Argentine novelist and ...