By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

Despite the fact that I have seen many, many art shows sanctifying 1920s modernism from seemingly every angle, the “Mouvement Flou” is a new one to me. The term, meaning the “blurry” or “out of focus” ...

The rayograph has been long admired but largely misunderstood. This important retrospective gives Man Ray’s eponymous ...

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Man Ray was one of the leading avant-garde thinkers of his generation, but how did he develop his unique approach? A watercolor sketch made while the artist was still in his early twenties has ...

In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. By Arthur Lubow In the winter of 1921, Man ...

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo) Man Ray: African Art through the Modernist Lens, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; University of Virginia Art Museum, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened Man Ray: When Objects Dream, the first major exhibition to position the artist’s Rayographs at the center of his career. On view from September 14, 2025, ...

Man Ray, "Boardwalk" (1917), oil, wood handles, and yarn on wood (© Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) Stepping into ...

Man Ray was the ultimate networker. From the time he was twenty-three years old, when he asked Alfred Stieglitz to sit for a painted portrait, he had an uncanny knack for befriending important people.

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