The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show ...

How a movement went from dreamworld to vanguard to establishment of its own. By Arthur Lubow Reporting from Philadelphia. Lubow is the author of “Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows,” Yale University ...

Philadelphia Art Museum presents Dreamworld:Surrealism at 100, a sprawling survey tracing surrealism from its origins to contemporary iterations On view through February 2026, the Philadelphia show ...

On Nov. 6, members of the Seven Rivers Spanish Club traveled to the Dali Museum after previously discussing the attributes of Dali’s surrealist art. In order to attend, members participated in a ...

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 ...

"Transference," a 1963 painting by Leonora Carrington, is among more than 100 works featured in “International Surrealism.” The exhibition is on view through March 22 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Joe ...

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 ...

At the Philadelphia Art Museum's latest exhibit, objects and figures are just slightly off. The bodies in paintings are fractured, missing parts or sprouting beaks. Spikes burst out of a clothing iron ...

Magritte’s apples, dreamscapes of the unconscious, fur-covered teacups, Carrington’s painterly visions, and more from the 101-year-old movement. With assistantships funded at $23,000, full tuition ...

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 ...

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A close-up view of Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025 A trove of avant-garde art—including ...