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 ...

Surrealism as a formal art movement is barely a century old. From its roots in 1920s Paris, it has always been bold, modern ...

Surrealism was a movement that emphasised “the fantastic and the absurd”, said Aisling O’Leary in The Daily Telegraph. Starting in the 1920s, its artists created “Freudian dreamscapes” that seemingly ...

Lobster telephones, raining men in gray suits and bowler hats, and the stuff of unconscious dreams, are some imagery that automatically come to mind with Surrealism. But what more is there to ...

To be on the internet today is to confront unsettling images—of war, climate change, humanitarian crises. Weird visuals crop up too. A YouTube algorithm provides me, for instance, with videos of a ...

“Words mean things” is a common retort thrown around online in response to pseudo-intellectual posts and egregiously inaccurate conflations. The phrase serves as an important reminder that the ...

The biggest treat comes right at the beginning of “Sixties Surreal,” just now opening at the Whitney. You emerge from the elevator, and right there are the camels. These are full-sized sculptures by ...

Although the term “surrealism” often conjures perplexing visual imagery — Salvador Dalí’s melting clocks, René Magritte’s raining men, Frida Kahlo’s antlered head atop The Wounded Deer — the genre ...

"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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Quantum physics looks at life on the smallest possible scale. There’s something mysterious about it that makes it stand out from the rest of the scientific world, most likely the fact that none of it ...