The stuff of Salvador Dali’s wildest dreams is no match for Facebook these days: Amputee kittens using crutches. Strawberries in the shape of lifelike frogs. Bosomy conjoined twins, structurally ...

Greater LA ‘Hughman’: See queer artist’s surrealism in … bathroom stalls At Lisson Gallery, Hugh Hayden’s new exhibition features strange, surreal sculptures and photographs placed in bathroom stalls.

Yvan Goll was born in 1891. In his twenties, he moved to Paris, where he wrote antiwar poetry and absurdist drama, met Picasso and Chagall, and gorged himself on the era’s avant-garde buffet.

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 ...

While writer Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Surrealism in 1917, with the publication of writer and poet André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 it heralded a dynamic new movement that took ...

A century after the Surrealist Manifesto drew attention to the unconscious mind as a subject and source for visual art, "International Surrealism," a new exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, ...

Forbidden Territories: 100 years of Surreal Landscapes, a new exhibition showing at The Hepworth Wakefield, is a bold and engaging exploration of the important, if unwieldy, body of work that comes ...

What to know about one of the field’s most misappropriated terms. By Julia Halperin Matthew Affron, 63, the curator of modern art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the organizer of its recent ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The day after the Philadelphia Art Museum’s surreal experience of watching its board ...

There are plenty of reasons to plan a holiday trip to Philly—we’re spotlighting three. Photograph by Tom Powel. Artwork by Alexander Calder © 2025 Calder Just an ...

Immersive theater has been around for ages, but “Your Unconscious Mind” may be the first local production encouraging audience members to show up in their pajamas and help create the surrealist art of ...