On November 6 a small article in the French daily Libération announced that the contents of André Breton’s small flat at 42 rue Fontaine where he lived from 1922 until his death, near Pigalle in Paris ...

Christie's announced the Thessa Herold, une femme d'intuition sale, to be held online from 22 May to 2 June. Tate Modern’s programme is a global cultural barometer – less a sequence of shows than a ...

A Gouro mask from Côte d’Ivoire, which was once owned by French surrealist writer and poet André Breton, sold for more than a million euros on Wednesday, making a new record for a Gouro mask. The mask ...

The death of Franklin Rosemont deserves some notice. He played an important role in popularising the work of poet André Breton for English-speaking audiences, while the foundation of the Chicago ...

A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?

One hundred years ago the French poet André Breton published his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” establishing a movement that was as influential in the 20th century as Romanticism had been in the preceding ...

The "Breton Wall" at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, in Paris. © CENTRE POMPIDOU, MNAM-CCI/PHILIPPE MIGEAT/DIST. RMN-GP © ADAGP, PARIS, 2024 ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1585): “Dadaglobe Reconstructed” is precisely the kind of show that the Museum of Modern Art should be doing, and very often has done of late. Memories of “Bjork” have pretty much been ...

Helmed by artistic director and chief curator Marta Kuzma, Faktura 10 is a multi-site, multimodal experiment across borders and time. Massimiliano Gioni’s "Fata Morgana," the Seoul Mediacity Biennale ...

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