Thursday, October 23, 2025

Surrealism is better known for its strangeness than the radical politics and revolutionary ambitions of its creators

Recommendable! Surrealism one hundred years later! Fascinating!

"A large-scale exhibition of surrealism that first opened in Paris in 2024 will have its sole American iteration, “Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100,” at the Philadelphia Art Museum from Nov. 8, 2025, through Feb. 16, 2026. ..."

Surrealism is better known for its strangeness than the radical politics and revolutionary ambitions of its creators

Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100


The publication of André Breton’s ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ in 1924 is considered the birth of the surrealist movement. 


The Secret Double (detail), 1927, by René Magritte


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