Observer spoke to Cassens about her art collector grandfather, cultural revisionism and why sitting with discomfort is so important.

La Lectura has access to one of the lesser-known portraits of Dalí, created by Man Ray in 1936 and that has remained hidden ...

As seen by the writer André Breton, lead theorist of surrealism, his main interest was in money. Breton once rearranged the letters of Salvador Dali, with satirical intent. His new version read “Avida ...

It began when a carpenter working on the property told Gissler about a “womanizing surrealist” named David Hare who lived in ...

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It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not ...

Although overly dense and insufficiently documented, the exhibition of part of Bruno Decharme's donation, presented by the ...

I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 presenter use the troubling phrase: ‘Not everyone agreed on the reality of that.’ Once the ...

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 ...

Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp called Andre 3000's untrained approach to piano ' true f'ing crap – insipidly wretched nothing.' Is that fair?

Breton was sent to school at a Catholic seminary, and three years later to the college of Douai, where he received a classical education. It was his first opportunity to study drawing. 1843 In the ...

It took 20 days to transfer 255 objects from André Breton's studio from Beaubourg in Paris to the Centre Pompidou-Metz near the German border. The collection has been on display since May 8 in an ...