Andrew Tolch—known in the art world as Andrew Torch—is a living, breathing, card-carrying Surrealist in regular contact with other declared Surrealists all over the world, writing communiqués and ...

“Sky is Falling,” a show of recent large-scale paintings by Julie Heffernan on view at the Crocker Art Museum, takes us into the realm of pop surrealism. Heffernan, a graduate of the University of ...

Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist or exhibition you should know.

Varo’s “Harmony (Suggestive Self-Portrait)” (1956), a self-depiction as a mystic in a hallowed space, evocative of Renaissance depictions of St Jerome, fetched $6.2mn in 2020. A retrospective at ...

Gascoyne, one of the leading literary lights of the Thirties whose circle included Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller, died in 2001 aged 85. His widow Judy died in June 2010. The work was ...

My favorite project to do with students each year is the surrealist self-portrait. In this unit of study, we practice skills in realistic portraiture — understanding face proportions, drawing facial ...

“The fragment is a really important structure for telling stories that have been heavily impacted by colonialism,” the film-maker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich has said. “For so long, value has been placed ...

The curators of the forthcoming blockbuster Frida Kahlo show at Tate Modern have revealed more details about the exhibition, highlighting the late Mexican artist’s “impact on women artists across ...

A PORTRAIT by a surrealist painter and writer, which she gave as a gift to her estranged lover, has been bought by the National Galleries of Scotland for more than half a million pounds. The painting ...