Surreal. It’s one of those words like insane or awesome that’s taken a beating from aggressive misuse. I’ve heard the term applied to both a bus driver wearing a funny hat and the sight of the second ...

Matthew Affron, 63, the curator of modern art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the organizer of its recent exhibition “ ...

Surrealism — famously defined by Andre Breton in his 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism” — first emerged in Australian art in the 1930s when local artists saw selected paintings ...

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 ...

André Masson was a French artist whose work has been cited as the bridge between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. He was a noted proponent of automatic art, in which the hand is allowed to move ...

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 ...