When makeup artist Laurel Charleston first met Doja Cat, it was, like any modern celebrity connection, thanks to technology. “We connected on social media, and the first time we worked together ...

Emerging on the market after nearly 30 years, a rare and exceptional sculpture by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington is the shining star in the forthcoming Modern Evening Sale at Sotheby’s in ...

Image credits: surrealism.world Today's list is also full of contemporary surrealist creations. The pictures were collected and shared by Instagram page @surrealism.world, which currently has over ...

Surrealism itself, however rooted in the popular imagination as an art world freak show, arrived with a very specific origin: the 1924 publication of the “Surrealist Manifesto” by French poet ...

To mark International Cat Day on August 8, we’ve found a few of our favorite “childless cat ladies” in art history who are having a pawsitively purffect time of it. Kitagawa Utamaro, A Woman ...

Eventually, she landed in Chicago. Her first professional experience with art was drawing gloves for department store ads. In the late 1930s, she was paid $94 a month (around $2,100 in today’s ...

The Blanton Museum of Art’s “Long Live Surrealism! 1924-Today” is both a retrospective and a testament to the movement’s lasting legacy, with seventy works by surrealist artists like Man ...

Institutional recognition has also played a role. In 2021 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York put on an exhibition which expanded Surrealism’s canon beyond western Europe.

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 ...