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While writer Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Surrealism in 1917, with the publication of writer and poet André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 it heralded a dynamic new movement that took ...

An overlooked female artist is starting to get her due. Nearly 30 years after her death, Leonor Fini's captivating, often gender-bending images are attracting renewed attention. She is one of the ...

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Probably. Before I left the house to visit the new Salvador Dalí exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, I noticed a headline that described President Joe Biden’s trip to Ukraine as “surreal.” Also, ...