I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and neither by ...

The torchbearers for one of Spain's most famous artists, Joan Miro, are promising a year-long fiesta of events honouring the ...

Unlike Kahlo, whose face appears on cushions and in baby books, Varo, Carrington and Rahon are little known outside the art ...

As an adult, Frida Kahlo would occupy the same house with her husband, Diego Rivera, transforming it into a gathering place ...

The American looks back on a lifetime in art – from ‘kind of sad’ encounters with her heroes, to sculpting with stardust ...

Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For centuries, mythological painting was a traditional subject matter, but in ...

The French artist Jean Dubuffet along with Andre Breton first defined outsider art as Art Brut (Raw Art) in 1945 and collected examples of work they considered "uncooked" by either classical or ...

The "Breton Wall" at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, in Paris. © CENTRE POMPIDOU, MNAM-CCI/PHILIPPE MIGEAT/DIST. RMN-GP © ADAGP, PARIS, 2024 ...

When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the ... s programs or manifestos (least of all those of André Breton, the pugilistic poet and leader of the surrealists ...

Jean-Claude Silbermann joined André Breton’s acolytes at 18. Now 90, he’s showing paintings at Independent, the art fair, and says Surrealism is “an attitude toward the world.” Jean ...

DOWNTOWN — The friendship between a renowned Mexican artist and an American bookbinder is on display ... Kahlo arrived in the city in January 1939 after surrealist architect André Breton invited her ...

from Jasper Johns’ targets and flags to Robert Rauschenberg’s collages and combines—almost anywhere you look in modern and contemporary art, Dada did it first. Even Breton, who died in 1966 ...