The show posits a radically different history of American art from the 1960s, and while it doesn’t deliver on its thesis it ...
A large-scale exhibition of surrealism that first opened in Paris in 2024 will have its sole American iteration, “Dreamworld: ...
50.5 x 40.5 cm. (19.8 x 15.9 in.), frame: 82 x 61 x 2 cm. (32.2 x 24.0 x 0.7 in.) ...
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 ...
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” ...
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 ...
“Gala is the only person I listen to,” Salvador Dalí once wrote of his wife, in a letter to a friend. “She alone can say what my future will be.” Gala Dalí moves onto center stage in Michèle Gerber ...
Twenty reclining female nudes sprawl across three monumental canvases, painted in an array of unusual fleshy hues such as deep blue, teal, moss green, and mauve pink. The intermingling of platonic and ...
A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others. By Deborah Solomon ...