The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...

Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free. André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his ...

Last year Surrealism turned 100. The movement, world-renowned for its wacky, often unsettling aesthetics and sometimes-erotic-sometimes-repulsive (regularly both) subject matter was celebrated with ...

A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?

In April 1945, a young Marcel Broodthaers interrupted a performance event of Resistance Poetry in Brussels shouting from the audience “Louis Aragon, when will you stop compromising French poetry?,” ...

Yvan Goll was born in 1891. In his twenties, he moved to Paris, where he wrote antiwar poetry and absurdist drama, met Picasso and Chagall, and gorged himself on the era’s avant-garde buffet.

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Cover design for a 1961 copy of Surrealistische ontmoetingen by J.H. Moesman (Gift from Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in ...