Surrealism & Politics
The classic avant-garde movement's melding of psychic and social revolution still resonates today.
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André Breton
Judit Reigl, Abstract Painter Who Broke Away from the Surrealists, Has Died at 97
Her work was included in a 2018 exhibition called 'Epic Abstraction' at the Met.
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“Moon Dancers: Yup’ik Masks and the Surrealists”
For André Breton, collecting les arts premiers (tribal art) was an inherently "surrealist activity" capable of displacing the rationalized relations of the modern world.
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Who Threw the First Punch?: Shana Lutker Stages a Surrealist Fight in Los Angeles
Late on the evening of July 2, 1925, police cordoned off the Closerie des Lilas, a Paris café, after an intellectual altercation. At a dinner in honor of Symbolist poet Saint-Pol-Roux…
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When Felonies Become Form: The Secret History of Artists Who Use Lawbreaking as Their Medium
Artists have long gotten away with murder, sometimes literally. After Benvenuto Cellini killed his rival, the goldsmith Pompeo de Capitaneis, in 1534, Pope Paul III—a Cellini…
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Editor’s Letter: ARTnews October 2015
The Trick Brain, a video by the British artist Ed Atkins, has haunted me since I first saw it at the 2013 Venice Biennale. In it, the camera pans a room packed to the gills with tribal…
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Vision Quest: Exploring the Venice Biennale
A channel-changing exhibition about imagination headlines a convergence of art from 88 countries
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