In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...

A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but also in rereading art history through a more spiritually charged lens.

Not quite an example of winning through intimidation, the exhibition “Drawing Surrealism” partly persuades through the sheer volume of its offerings — distinctive, once wildly avant-garde and now ...

Hunter S. Thompson may have made a strong case for Las Vegas as America’s most hallucinogenic city, but I’d argue that Orlando is actually the capital of the United States of the Surreal. There’s an ...

The old proverb states that: "There is nothing new under the sun." This can feel very true when surveying the landscape of our paint-by-numbers creativity. One thing that stifles new ideas is the fear ...

"The Surrealist Manifesto" was published a century ago. Artists such as Andre Breton and Salvador Dali aimed to create a better future. How has their legacy changed ...

Pictured are a few pieces of Jimmy Mustion’s artwork, including, from top to bottom, a segment of piece depicting “Chinese Parade/Catfish Jumbo,” a drawing of a day lily, and a portrait of ...

Art history suffers from misconceptions that, once generated, achieve the pervasive power of “urban myths:” fictional accounts that reinforce popular [mis]understandings through endless and uncritical ...