A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but also in rereading art history through a more spiritually charged lens.

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement. Surrealism is an avant-garde ...

Although Castañeda has been a pivotal figure in modern Latin American art in the United States since his first solo ...

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, there is an artwork on display, a medium-sized painting of a pipe on a cream-colored background, underneath which is written in plain letters: “Ceci ...

The word “surreal” is used today to describe everything from the aftermath of natural disasters to celebrity courtroom dramas, which makes it easy to forget its origins as one of the most shockingly ...

Yves Tanguy "Fraud in the garden" (1930). The painting had been restored to hide damage to the canvas from an attack on a Paris cinema in 1930 (courtesy Becca Pollak) A painting by French surrealist ...

It was the kind of feel-good mystery that one might encounter on "Antiques Roadshow." While Austinite Lars Frazer was growing up in Southern California, his rather buttoned-down stepfather — Richard ...