The journalist and collector Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, who established the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, was exiled after speaking out against Brazil's military dictatorship. ‘Aber ...

Detail of Max Ernst, "Au rendez-vous des amis" (1922), featuring, left to right: Louis Aragon, André Breton, Giorgio de ... edited by artist Franca Franchi and published to coincide with the ...

A Friendship With Mary Reynolds” features work and objects revealing Kahlo and Reynolds’ friendship and influence in their ...

Monday, April 20, 1981, was artist Joan Miró's 88th birthday. It was also the day that Mayor Jane Byrne pulled a cord to ...

A look at what makes a work of art genuinely surreal via the work of Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. Read more about it here.

It demands to be looked at, inviting the eye to revel in the delight that is colour and form. There is something almost ...

Éluard was one of the Dadaist circle around André Breton. The big event in spring 1921 was the debut show of a German artist, Max Ernst. Paul and Gala missed it because they were away, so they went to ...

On the eve of two major solo shows and as he turns 70, the artist and director opens up his family house in Johannesburg ...

The artist spent time traveling throughout Europe as a young man, meeting the Surrealist poets Octavio Paz and André Breton. He died on October 9, 2017 in Lima, Peru. Today, De Szyszlo’s works are ...

Going back to the 1960s, a sculpture by Spanish Catalan artist Joan Miró had been part ... avant-garde creative movement led by poet André Breton. Miró's work appeared in the First Surrealist ...

André Breton, the leader of the surrealist movement met Kahlo in Mexico in 1938 and quickly branded her a surrealist even though she never saw her art in that way. He offered to organize a show ...

She throws art shows in her apartment. He does the same in a chicken coop. Upstart curators are creating ad-hoc exhibition ...