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 ...

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 ...

The history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for Ren Magritte. “You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris,”Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his ...

Even so, surrealism remained central to her work. She employed the surrealist technique known as automatism, which gives free play to the unconscious, to dazzling effect. In paintings like “Gorgon” ...

On the surface it would seem like European Surrealism, Indigenous cultures, physics, extraterrestrial life and Zen Buddhism don’t have much, if anything, to do with each other. But for Inverness ...

VILLAZAN Gallery just launched the debut solo exhibition of artist August Vilella in New York. Titled Echoes of Silence, the exhibition showcases Vilella’s latest works that delve into the profound ...

In 1934, André Breton, one of Surrealism's founders and most controversial exponents, sat in a Parisian café, holding a handful of Mexican jumping beans, rolling them in his palm as they twitched ...

When does a metronome become a work of art? When you add a paper cutout of an eye to its pendulum bar. That’s what Philadelphia-born artist Man Ray decided to do in 1923; transforming an everyday ...

The Integrated Media Art Practice area inside the Department of Art and Art History at CU offers a course titled New Directions in Digital Art. At first glance, the title provides an indefinite, but ...

Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) helped forge a new vision of painting that established Abstract Expressionism at the vanguard of post-war painting and transformed New York into the epicenter of the art ...