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 ...

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 ...

Anja Salonen, “Hysteria” (2022), oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60 inches (all photos Jennifer Remenchik/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — Existential unease fills the air between the walls of Unknot, a ...

It was the kind of feel-good mystery that one might encounter on "Antiques Roadshow." While Austinite Lars Frazer was growing up in Southern California, his rather buttoned-down stepfather — Richard ...

Leonora Carrington’s “Bird Bath: from 1974. Peter Dechar's "Pears #67-8" from 1967. “Regret” by Giorgio de Chirico, a stunning, early painting from 1916. An installation view of “A Long Affair: ...

Probably. Before I left the house to visit the new Salvador Dalí exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, I noticed a headline that described President Joe Biden’s trip to Ukraine as “surreal.” Also, ...

Yves Tanguy "Fraud in the garden" (1930). The painting had been restored to hide damage to the canvas from an attack on a Paris cinema in 1930 (courtesy Becca Pollak) A painting by French surrealist ...

When I was invited to do this Procreate tutorial, to explore how to create surreal art in Procreate, I immediately knew it wouldn’t be an easy task. Revisiting the work of a surrealist artist was both ...

On Oct. 1 Evening Post Books released American Surrealist: The Art of Richard Hagerty, a full-color publication highlighting the 40-year career of Charleston artist and licensed plastic surgeon ...

It might be argued that surrealist paintings cannot be considered either good or bad. How so? Because the primary source of inspiration for surrealist artists are dreams — fueled by the writings of ...