By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

Man Ray, "Boardwalk" (1917), oil, wood handles, and yarn on wood (© Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) Stepping into ...

In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. By Arthur Lubow In the winter of 1921, Man ...

In Paris in the 1930s, there were few artists as influential as Man Ray. A pioneer of Surrealist photography, the American expat's use of modernist techniques to create groundbreaking images ...

La Lectura has access to one of the lesser-known portraits of Dalí, created by Man Ray in 1936 and that has remained hidden until now. The uniqueness of the piece, a discard from a well-known photo ...

Despite the fact that I have seen many, many art shows sanctifying 1920s modernism from seemingly every angle, the “Mouvement Flou” is a new one to me. The term, meaning the “blurry” or “out of focus” ...