A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but also in rereading art history through a more spiritually charged lens.

With most historical art movements, we find that there are scores of women whose influence and work have been overlooked or at the least undervalued for their contributions to the canon. The ...

Surrealist art is full of dreamlike images – but not all those dreams were sweet, as evidenced by a traveling exhibit called "Monsters and Myths," currently at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, after ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

Surrealism is having a moment. As the art movement celebrates its centennial, a retrospective is underway in Shanghai, and another is planned for the Center Pompidou in Paris this fall. Believe it or ...

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement. Surrealism is an avant-garde ...

From fashion editorials to furniture and film, surrealist imagery is resurfacing as creatives seek storytelling in an oversaturated world ...

Goopy eyeballs, skateboard burgers and raisin hell. What do all these things have in common? They’re weird and you probably have no idea what they mean — but that’s the point. An ongoing art gallery ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Matthams Spencer is a Paris-based writer who covers jewelry. This article is more than 3 years old. Le Violon d'Ingres by Man ...

When viewed as a vehicle for various forms of liberation, the movement remains highly resonant even a century after its heyday. By Kate Guadagnino “SURREALISM” IS ONE of those buzzwords, like “curate” ...