“This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass,” André Breton wrote in 1924. “Existence is elsewhere.” His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement that defined ...

Between the rise of artificial intelligence and the proliferation of “fake news,” living in the 21 st-century can sometimes feel a bit surreal. That is why there is perhaps no better time to revisit ...

Donated by a billionaire trustee, the Bluff Collection features key works by artists like Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp ...

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 ...

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 ...

The gift is also accompanied by funding for a new research program at The Met, called the Bluff Collaborative for Research on ...

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 ...

The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...

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 ...