Who doesn’t know Salvador Dalí’s famous painting popularly known as “Melting Clocks” or “Soft-Watches” — painted and titled by the artist “The Persistence of Memory” in 1931, I ask rhetorically? This ...

In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free from any ...

Born in 1898, René Magritte enjoyed an illustrious five-decade career, painting until his death aged just 68 in the late 1960s. He is one of the world’s most famous Surrealists, instantly recognizable ...

Between the rise of artificial intelligence and the proliferation of “fake news,” living in the 21 st-century can sometimes feel a bit surreal. That is why there is perhaps no better time to revisit ...

The British artist lived long and worked in numerous mediums, but is barely known in the United States. By Roberta Smith The history of art by women still has its secrets. Some recent revelations ...

Rita Kernn-Larsen (1904–1998) was a prominent Danish Surrealist artist, whom Peggy Guggenheim met in Paris in 1937 and invited to exhibit at her Guggenheim Jeune gallery in London the following year.

One afternoon in February of 2024, Grant Ford, an art adviser and dealer in the English town of Marlborough, received a phone call from a local lawyer named David J. Goldsmith. Goldsmith wanted advice ...

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 ...

"See you tomorrow night," Salvador Dalí wrote on the bottom of a sketch of a dress made to look like a skeleton before sending it over to his friend Elsa Schiaparelli. Framed on a wall at the Victoria ...

LONDON — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction ...