Over my nine years of teaching visual art in schools, surrealism has been one of my favorite styles of art to explore with my classes and a consistent student favorite, as well. Surrealism originated ...

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 ...

Every person likes some form of art — whether it’s music, movies, or paintings. Then, within each form, there are plenty of styles to choose from. When it comes to painting styles, they range from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The day after the Philadelphia Art Museum’s surreal experience of watching its board ...

“This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass,” André Breton wrote in 1924. “Existence is elsewhere.” His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement that defined ...