While Austinite Lars Frazer was growing up in Southern California, his rather buttoned-down stepfather — Richard Michael Frazer — owned a Surrealist painting. The tiny work, much smaller than ...

Before “Defying Gravity,” Elphaba accidentally uses a levitation spell that she reads in the movie’s magic spell book, the Grimmerie, to make monkeys grow wings. Then, during “Defying ...

Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal. The ...

The auction house noted in a press statement that the painting is the most expensive Surrealist work sold at auction and achieved a world record for the artist. After a feverish bidding war ...

Breton was immediately captivated by the “scandalously beautiful” woman, as he later described Lamba in his 1937 Surrealist novella, L’Amour Fou (Mad Love). Breton, as we know, went on to ...

The piece was previously owned by Edward James, a British patron of the Surrealist movement. This is the first time it’s come up for public auction in three decades. “This is her greatest ...

A dystopian crime film directed by Stanley Kubrick follows a psychopathic criminal Alex is incarcerated for rape and murder. He agrees to participate in a government-run experiment to shorten his ...

Formerly part of the collection of British poet and surrealist patron Edward James, “La Grande Dame” has since made appearances in exhibitions at Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern in London ...

For its Surrealist Masquerade, the museum will transform its sculpture garden into a vibrant celebration of life and heritage to honor Día de los Muertos.