Artnet

Dreaming of Dalí? These 7 Must-Read Books Unlock the World of Surrealism

Last year Surrealism turned 100. The movement, world-renowned for its wacky, often unsettling aesthetics and sometimes-erotic-sometimes-repulsive (regularly both) subject matter was celebrated with ...
Artnet

How Women Surrealists Shaped the Movement’s Past—And Its Present

Today, Surrealism is thought of as being synonymous with artists like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, or Man Ray. Over the years, names of women artists like Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and ...
Observer

At One Hundred, Surrealism Is Alive and Well in Austin and Beyond

"Long Live Surrealism!" at the Blanton Museum of Art is a far-ranging exhibition covering one of the most beloved—and approachable—art movements of modern times. “Long Live Surrealism! 1924-Today” is ...
The New York Times

Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.

Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free. André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his ...
The New York Times

Surrealism at 100 Sprawls and Seduces in Philadelphia

How a movement went from dreamworld to vanguard to establishment of its own. By Arthur Lubow Reporting from Philadelphia. Lubow is the author of “Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows,” Yale University ...
The Conversation

Surrealists at Sea: Dušan and Voitre Marek finally receive their place in the pantheon of Australian surrealism

Catherine Speck received ARC funding for large project on Australian art exhibitions (2011-13) with Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine De Lorenzo and Alison Inglis. Surrealism — famously defined by Andre ...