Tag: Surrealist

Looking at Surrealist Art in Our Own Surreal Age

Surrealist Artwork in Our Personal Surreal Age

“SURREALISM” IS ONE of these buzzwords, like “curate” or “groundbreaking,” that has been rendered successfully meaningless via overuse. In his 1924 “Manifesto of Surrealism,” the author André Breton outlined the time period most succinctly as an try and resolve “these two states, dream and actuality, that are seemingly so contradictory,” although its true origins got

Glimpsing a Soon-to-Vanish Surrealist World in Chelsea

Glimpsing a Quickly-to-Vanish Surrealist World in Chelsea

In a former industrial constructing in Chelsea, Tom Shivers donned a silver sequined masks to greet a customer. Much like the costumes he and his husband, the gallerist Neil Zukerman, wore usually on the Carnival of Venice, the glittery masks acted as each a coronavirus precaution and a becoming introduction to the astonishing world the