Horror and surrealism have always shared a natural affinity. Both genres thrive on uncertainty, symbolism, dream logic, and the collapse of ordinary reality. Traditional horror often asks audiences to ...

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition “Sixties Surreal” looks, on paper, like a winner. It surveys a dynamic decade of art, during a tumultuous political era that birthed many of our ...

I wish Sixties Surreal focused more on destabilizing the concept of “real” than reifying it. Installation view of Sixties Surreal, feauturing Claes Oldenburg’s “Soft Toilet” (1966, center) and Alex ...

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 ...

"Long Live Surrealism!" at the Blanton Museum of Art is a far-ranging exhibition covering one of the most beloved—and approachable—art movements of modern times. “Long Live Surrealism! 1924-Today” is ...

A century-old artistic revolution that changed the world is on display at a London art exhibition. By Jillian Rayfield Reporting from London It was a sweaty summer day in London in 1936, and Salvador ...

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 ...